Hooray – it’s Sci-Friday – enjoy this little trip down retrofuturist tech lane where we talk about the nascent, niche technology: TV modems! Back in the late 90s – pre-broadband – you were interested in ANY technology that allowed you to download faster than 56K. Why? It took forever! Throughput times in the days, months,…
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This author journey circles back to something I wrote almost three months ago, tips on surviving the Query Letter Blues. As mentioned previously, Query letters get sent to lit agents requesting they review and consider your work for representation/publication. Your query letter – like your love life – is only as good as the response it…
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A recent road trip forced me to think hard about OpenAI, ChatGPT, and the future of AI. We hit town after ten o’clock. Murray knows the town as well as I do, which is why we got lost almost immediately. Highway 101 cuts through the east side of town and it’s easy to find a…
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I ran across the attached video – Harlan Ellison weighs in on an interesting question: should authors hate readers? That question led to more questions and so I started to write. There are many prevailing opinions about this topic, but Harlan Ellison makes an interesting case for hating or despising his readers. Take a look…
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For this Sci-Friday, I’m passing along some free classic scifi short stories that I think you’ll enjoy. One of them is over a hundred years old and predicts email and video projectors. Short stories introduce complex topics and share ideas in bite-sized chunks. I learned to write short stories by reading what other authors have…
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My time on https://kbin.social/m/scifi teaches me that the dangers of an ‘all or nothing’ scifi community still exist. I’m not going to call out specific examples because I don’t want anyone to feel judged. Digging through the comments on the threads/microblogs – the pattern starts to emerge. I’m not anyone’s dad, so do what you…
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Hooray – we made it to Sci-Friday – please enjoy this scifi movie ‘Without Warning,’ a remake of Orson Welles’ famous ‘War of the Worlds’ broadcast from 1994. Take a look: Watching Without Warning on YouTube is an interesting slice-of-life, since the video includes mid-90s commercials and other ‘pre-9/11’ production elements that you wouldn’t…
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Another drippy fall day in Eugene for the guy who writes scifi short stories. I pull my coat tight around my shoulders. Mason – my indoor cat – escaped into the neighborhood last night. Misty fog fills the neighborhood with mystery and danger. My kitty isn’t up for the cold, harsh realities of a post-election…
Hooray – so happy to announce another new scifi audiobook – The Battle of Victoria Crater Part II is online and ready to listen to. Are you interested in Mars? Do you want to know what life would really be like on the Red Planet? Click the link below and strap in – it’s more…
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Almost done – Please enjoy some teaser art for The Battle of Victoria Crater Part Two. We should have that live on YouTube in the next few days. Enjoy the art and some of the behind-the-scenes updates for producing a scifi audio short story: I know I’ve talked about producing short stories before but let’s…
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