- Using metamaterials to create illusions
- Where to find alien life
- Would Advanced civilizations huddle around black holes?
- Creating a cone of silence
- Stross on the future of gaming
Five for the Future 04-30-09
- Anti-germ paint to keep your space habitat clean
- Mercury more exciting than Mars?
- Rogue black holes in galactic halo
- Hidden photons for sending secret messages
- Universities irrelevant by 2020
Sunward Cover Art
Here is the cover art for Sunward: The Inner System, the first sourcebook we'll be releasing for Eclipse Phase. This is another fantastic piece from artist Stephan Martiniere (who also did our core book and GM Screen covers). It depicts a spacecraft scoping out a couple of suryas, which are a morph type genetically designed to live in the sun's corona. Yes, they're sort of like sun whales, and many suryas are actually uplifted whales or dolphins.
All of the cover art for Eclipse Phase is going to feature this horizontal, wrap-around cover design, with one half of the image on the front and the other half on the back cover, laying over the spine. This cover mockup shows you what the front cover will look like:
Five for the Future 04-17-09
- Nano neural nets for virtual reality
- Watching the watchers
- Human echolocation
- Using DNA as nano building blocks
- Listening biometrics
End of the Week, End of the World 04-10-09
How does death by death star sound? No, not the Star Wars kind -- the kind of star that dies, explodes in a supernova, and sends a wave of killer gamma-ray radiation across the nearby stellar neighborhood, wiping out life.
ObEP: A group of gatecrashers on a crucial mission suddenly find out that their exoplanet is about to be bombarded by a gamma ray burst from a nearby dying star. They have scant time to finish their mission and escape back through the Pandora gate ...