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Sci-Friday #152 – Meteor Trailer – Throwback Science Fiction

Posted on July 1, 2022July 1, 2022 By Jackson Allen
Sci-Friday #152 – Meteor Trailer – Throwback Science Fiction

Yay, 1970s disaster scifi! For this Sci-Friday, enjoy the trailer to ‘Meteor,’ a goofy yet star-studded throwback science fiction movie. I remember watching this years ago on ABC’s ‘Sunday Night at the Movie’ and so it was a joy to finally see the trailer in all its dowdy, cliched glory. Take a look:  Meteor…

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Scifi Filmmaker Program

Posted on June 30, 2022June 30, 2022 By Jackson Allen
Scifi Filmmaker Program

Quick shout out to the filmmakers in the crowd. Are you a student or indie filmmaker? Looking for something to shoot? Look no further: let’s talk about the Sci-Fi Dollar Baby Program. What’s a Dollar Baby? Stephen King came up with the idea back in 1977: “’77 was the year young film makers – college…

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Creativity Craft: No More Hustle Culture

Posted on June 21, 2022 By Jackson Allen
Creativity Craft: No More Hustle Culture

Coffee’s brewing, and I’m cooking some eggs – Beautiful day in Eugene – I’m going to take a walk later, soak up some vitamin D. Let’s take a moment to talk about something I’ve wrestled with – creativity craft: no more hustle culture. Creativity is a beautiful, fragile human state. Forcing our creativity into hustle…

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Sci-Friday #151 – Bill Nighy’s Creative Advice – ‘There’s No Process’

Posted on June 17, 2022June 10, 2022 By Jackson Allen
Sci-Friday #151 – Bill Nighy’s Creative Advice – ‘There’s No Process’

Bill Nighy is one of those low-key great actors that nobody notices, but everyone knows. You’ve seen him in all kinds of movies, from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to Harry Potter. He gave some acting advice in the following video I’m including for Sci-Friday that’s motivation for everybody. There is no process, there’s…

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Back to Drawing Board With My Scifi Novel

Posted on June 13, 2022 By Jackson Allen
Back to Drawing Board With My Scifi Novel

Grab a hot drink and settle in – it’s time to talk about why I’m going back to the drawing board with my scifi novel. It’s taken me a few days to get enough emotional distance to talk about this objectively. I killed Cinderellavator as my next novel project so I could let it be…

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Sci-Friday #150 – World’s Most Dangerous Toy

Posted on June 10, 2022June 10, 2022 By Jackson Allen

It’s amazing Boomer kids survived their childhoods, having playthings like the World’s Most Dangerous Toy. The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab Kit is roughly high on the list of the world’s most dangerous toy with 3 sources of radiation. It even came with  a book on how to prospect uranium. This retro “toy” from the…

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Solarpunk Tech – Fungus-Based Plastics

Posted on June 6, 2022June 6, 2022 By Jackson Allen
Solarpunk Tech – Fungus-Based Plastics

Some interesting solarpunk tech to start your week – fungus-based materials are coming online as a simple, biodegradable alternative to styrofoam and leather. They’re currently in the market as handbags, flooring and sound-proofing acoustic panels. It’s also been experimentally used to build larger structures such as benches, coffins, composting toilets and even buildings. Take a…

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Scifi Writing: Intelligence vs Sentience

Posted on June 2, 2022June 2, 2022 By Jackson Allen

Hi folks – working through some deep-level author stuff which I’ll talk about in a few. Right now I want to pass along some cool scifi writing ideas in the form of a question: What is intelligence vs sentience? Redditor zeFrogLeaps answers this for us below. Let’s read their brilliant comment and then discuss what…

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New Flash Fiction – Project Guillotine – Free Scifi

Posted on May 26, 2022 By Jackson Allen
New Flash Fiction – Project Guillotine – Free Scifi

Well that stinks. Sometimes Reddit will kill a particular /r/writingprompt for, reasons. I found out that one of my flash fiction stories – Project Guillotine – ended up in the virtual trash can. So, I present it here for your amusement – I might develop this into a short later on: Project Guillotine “Well, that’s…

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New Flash Fiction – Superhero Shrink Rides Again

Posted on May 24, 2022 By Jackson Allen
New Flash Fiction – Superhero Shrink Rides Again

Happy to drop another flash fiction piece on Reddit. Superhero Shrink: On the Loose comes from the following writing prompt: “After being defeated by an overpowered superhero once again, a villain creates a new more powerful body for himself. a form powerful enough to easily defeat the hero. But in the middle of a mind-transfer…

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My name is Jackson Allen. I'm actively writing, querying, submitting neo-Golden Age scifi. I look for future trends in social and technical expansion and ask "how could you tell that story for kids that makes them feel excited about the future?" Lots of self-published shorts - actively querying for a formal, mainstream publication house.

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