NASA's PlanetQuest website allows you to keep track of the discovery of exoplanets. Need a new setting for that epic space opera you are writing during November's novel in one month project?

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(A repost from 2003...)

Take a look at this entry to this blog.

The author discusses the famous non-fiction work The World, the Flesh and the Devil by J.D. Bernal. This book influenced authors from Olaf Stapledon to Arthur C. Clarke, and even showed up in the space colony work of Gerard K. O'Neil and others (most notably in the design known as the "Bernal Sphere"). more...

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Is the Sloan Great Wall the largest "structure" known in the universe? There's a SF novel in here somewhere...

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Phil Harrington, author of several excellent books for amateur astronomers, has released his equally excellent Touring the Universe Through Binoculars Atlas as freeware.

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