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...really. The idea for my mom doing the forward was to find the least objective person on the planet earth to defend someone. And a parent talking about their child, there’s no objectivity, to say, ‘Well, yeah, they probably had a point in dumping you.’ They’re just like ‘I’m your mother and I don’t have to be fair.’ So I thought it’d be funny if she wrote from the most biased point...
...difference--a world, in other words, both completely different from and identical to our own. In Matter (Orbit; 593 pages), Banks' first Culture novel since Look to Windward, one of those technological gulfs opens up within a family: Djan Seriy is born into a royal clan on a backwater planet, but she is recruited into the Culture. Her brother Ferbin remains behind on their primitive home world. (Which is, incidentally, not a regular planet but a Shellworld, a synthetic planet constructed as a set of concentric spheres. At its center dwells a massive, near omnipotent alien deity. No one knows...
Clues found in the rocks by two NASA space rovers—Opportunity and Spirit—have led researches to conclude that the concentrations of minerals in Mars’s water makes the planet inhospitable for even the heartiest of organisms, according to Andrew Knoll, a professor of natural history in the Earth and planetary sciences department and a member of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover science team...
...Most of Mars remains unvisited by rovers, although orbiting satellites are providing good maps of surface conditions across the planet,” Knoll said...
...plans to provide textual, photographic, and graphical descriptions of every organism on the planet in order to provide comparative data for different species, as well as a means of identifying large-scale trends in species growth and movement, according to the press release for the Web site’s unveiling...