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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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…
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…
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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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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