The Quantum Muse is a venerable speculative fiction webzine with almost as much history as Nuketown. It's had something of a bumpy ride the last few months as one of its founding editors left, and those who remained prepared to move to a new house and welcome a new baby and figure out a way to keep publishing the zine.

They've worked through all that now, and the good news is that you can expect to see the ol'Muse publishing throughout 2007, though at a more relaxed quarterly schedule instead of its traditional frantic monthly one (the "frantic monthly" description is mine; I remember how hard it was to publish monthly fiction back when Nuketown did that).

You know we're living in the future when you see things like Orbital Express being launched. It's a pair of robots designed to find, dock with and repair satellites in orbit, replacing faulty parts, refueling spent containers, and generally helping the sky birds to stay flying for a few more years. It's funded by the U.S. military and NASA, and its initial goal is to help extend the lives of expensive spy satellites. If it works though, I wouldn't be surprised to see these things tackling commercial jobs as well.