Wait – Antarctica Again?!?
Given the big emotional and literary run-up I’ve given to previous deployments, it’s kind of embarrassing to pop up here and say, “Oh, uh – I forgot to mention that […]
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Heller’s Tale – now on Amazon.com!
Hey all – many many thanks for your patience as I work my way through all the jumbled writing (and non-writing) projects I’ve been juggling these past few months. I’ve […]
More Antarctic Fiction: Tales From the Ice
“It didn’t matter whether you had a story to tell or just wanted to sit back and listen to somebody else’s tale of wonder and woe over a shot of bad whiskey: Summer Camp Lounge was the place to go for stories. “Summer Camp” was a story in itself…
So Close…
“The sweet smell of the land blew out to us on a warm wind, a smell of sand verbena and grass and mangrove. It is so quickly forgotten, this land […]
Return from the Sea
The sea is not, I think, something for those who regard the world in terms of conquest. A mountain can be conquered: Zebulon Pike’s “unclimbable peak” is now saddled with […]
Mission Accomplished
It took the away team three excursions out to the buoy, jury-rigging scavenged electronics into place under the hatch of a Volkswagen-sized pod bobbing in the the open ocean, but […]
Christmas Ahead of a Following Sea
Captain turned the ship around day before last. The storm was coming at us from the southwest, so rather than sit in place and ride it out, we’d pressed our […]
The Whisper of the Sea
Last night’s dreams consistently returned to the image of sleeping on a porch swing pulled and pushed to its limits by a maniac, a rhythmic alternation between weightlessness and a […]
Ninja Coder of the High Seas. And (of course) Robots!
We’re holding station west of FLMA2 amid worsening seas. It’s not bad, but bad enough that we’ve postponed trying to retrieve HYPM1, the last of the undersea moorings from last […]
Hauling Up – Also: Space Aliens!
Sorry for the radio silence – things have been understandably busy, both above deck and below. Up top, the science team has been working like crazy to deploy the rest […]
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