We posted a new article in the Tech Section with another background detail showing the technical challenges of surviving on Mars.
Building the navigational transceiver was an excuse for me to toy with some neat equipment, including an embroidery machine and an automated mill.
To make the device’s controller, I started with an Israeli military magazine pouch, something that might be produced on Mars with hemp product. I wrote the text into a computer file, chose the desired stitching technique and number of stitches, and loaded the file into a Brother brand embroidery machine.
Marc Laidlaw, former writer for the Half–Life game franchise, recently posted a thinly veiled 
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nto the background as part of the uncharacterized sea of humanity, except, of course, for “The Nigerians,” a dusty lot gangsters, prostitutes, and pseudo cannibals. After cringing through an American screening, and perhaps wondering if the fellow sharing her cup holder was drawing unfavorable conclusions from her dreadlocks, Okorafor complained in the best way: she wrote a novel, 
No, not quite. Candy is all sugar rush and empty calories. These magazines are more than that. There’s a sense of daring that I rarely find in novel form. Books are a big investment for an author, a money maker and the product of a years long production cycle. It’s hard to take a risk on a project that one’s reputation might hinge on. But a short story—who cares? Go nuts. Why not tinker with prose or dip into a fresh genre, if only for five thousand words? And from the readers point of view i
the perspective of a female medical research scientist. Still, these are superficial similarities. Gerritsen worked on a movie script, amending it with a scene in which the ISS is destroyed by satellite debris, which culminates in the nightmare scenario of an untethered EVA. She sold screen rights to New Line Productions where the project floundered, as far as she knew, after the company was bought out by Warner Bros. Gerritsen later learned that her failed project was to be helmed by Alfonso 