Writing group experience take 2 … I am so out of it
The other day I wrote about my first experiences in a face-to-face writing group. One other thing I learned. I am so out of it when it comes to science fiction and fantasy. The coordinator brought in a...
View ArticleDeveloping the science fiction reading skillset
Over at Tor.com Jo Walton has an interesting article on SF reading protocols and how regular readers of science fiction know how to read without getting hung up on the detail that’s not important. She...
View ArticleScience in your fiction – it’s easy to get wrong
Today I tried to ring my insurance company. I dug out last year’s policy. Yes, it had the policy number on it. Yes it had all the details I needed. Then I tried to ring them and couldn’t. Because I...
View ArticleIf they remade The Terminator today, what’s the one thing they would change?
I watched the movie The Terminator the other night. Despite it being one of ‘the’ great science fiction movies, I had never seen it before. I enjoyed it enough to watch through to the end but … we’ve...
View ArticleSelfies – a trend I would never have picked
Science fiction writers try to predict the future. Take a trend, extrapolate it, and there’s your future. Yet there are some things you’d never think of, even though they’re so obvious once the trend...
View ArticleScience fiction through modern media
Lately it seems I’ve come across more and more people who love science fiction, yet their total exposure to the genre is through film and television. They’ve watched every episode of Star Trek, seen...
View ArticleWhat is ‘hard’ science fiction
Over on io9 Linda Nagata talks about hard science fiction. In it, she asks what makes a story ‘hard’. As Nagata says, everyone involved has an opinion. Her definition is: Hard SF is science fiction...
View ArticleWe need more books that push the science fiction envelope
I’ve been living in my own science fictional world the last few days, where my sense of well-being is directly proportional to the level of cold-and-flu drugs in my system. The recommended daily dosage...
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A tip for aspiring science fiction writers — read Locus Magazine
June 2014 Locus magazine Back when there was all that controversy about the SFWA Bulletin, when people were discussing what an industry magazine for the science fiction community should be, I remember...
View ArticleEdge of Tomorrow is a movie worth seeing
The golden age of science fiction seems to have been replaced by the golden age of science fiction movies lately. Gravity, Hunger Games, Iron Man, Pacific Rim, Edge of Tomorrow, Transformers: Age of...
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