OK, not from space — just going for a sensational post title. But cool nonetheless. From SFSignal.com, a list of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers with Blogs.

I notice Jerry Pournelle is listed. Some say he is the first blogger, although he dislikes the term “blog”. Pournelle has certainly been posting very blogish online entries (to the web, and before that to various online services) since before the average MySpace user was born.

I was an avid reader of his Computing at Chaos Manor column in Byte magazine back in the day, as I suspect most geeks my age were. His current site isn’t pretty (coded and updated in Front Page, and with plenty of red text on a beige background), and he refuses to adopt the “reverse chronological” post order that some might say defines a “blog”, but I find myself reading The View From Chaos Manor often. He’s a great writer, with much insight. His other web site, Chaos Manor Reviews, offers a weekly technology column that is a lot like the old Byte column.