Jesse Bullington, author of  The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart begins guestblogging at Omnivoracious.com today, and opens with an appreciation of and elaboration upon an extremely thought-provoking article by fellow Orbit author Kim Stanley Robinson in New Scientist, “Science Fiction: the Stories of Now” — proposing, among much else, that a story of the past can be a story of now, as well.