Orson Scott Card - PING [please freepmail me if you want or don't want to be pinged to Orson Scott Card political articles]
Since 9/11 he wrote many political essays. He is a conservative democrat of Zell Miller type (there are still few left) who is upset with hijacking of his party by the Left. His articles are more inline with the FreeRepublic spirit than with his own political website: http://www.ornery.org/index.html that is heavily populated by American- and other Leftists who are delightfully annoyed by Mr. Card's conservatism. He does not post on that site and its moderated by somebody else.
Links: his articles discussed at FR: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/k-orsonscottcard/browse and archived here (it is a must go place for all new to OSC political writing): http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/index.html
His literary, non-political website: http://www.hatrack.com
His fresh articles appear in the Rhinoceros Times, Greensboro, NC: http://www.rhinotimes.com/greensboro/ (before being posted permanently on his The Ornery American website). Read his books/movies/and everything reviews: http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/
His "About" page: http://www.hatrack.com/osc/about.shtml
Thanks for the ping!
I just read a novel by Nancy Kress called "Oaths and Miracles"that dealt with genetically specific weapons.
One thing we know for sure - we have many results from the "Atomic Age" burst of knowledge, but most of those we live with don't resemble the predictions of magazine editors or even science fiction writers (except some of the social comments -marriage and family aren't dirty words, yet - but there's open disapproval of babies and I've heard a lot of questioning as to why some young couple would actually get married instead of just living together).
I am still waiting for my communicator - watch or pin? And I desperately want a tricorder and a replicator.