Bad news: Elon Musk’s Cybercab gives us a clear idea of the lonely, selfish future. A future where Musk is the center of your universe, my universe, forever. I want to be cautious about providing a ‘hot take’ because I know you know how I feel about those. But, take a step back. This Cybercab…
This week’s news about Doxing Sunglasses and Dead Internet remind us that Mesh is more than a science fiction story – it’s news about the future. Dead Internet is a theory that – in short – says the Internet and everything about it are so driven by bots and AI that there’s no THERE there,…
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Taking a break from writing to do some new scifi concept art for Mike Sierra Echo – added it to the main page but am posting it here for your wallpaper collection. These are scenes from the novel, I’ll give you a quick description below: Our first picture is a shot of the space elevator…
Hooray – a new scifi short story is here – Justice Heuristic is published / publishing on your favorite ebook platforms. I started writing this last year as a reaction to different current events. How bad does the world have to get before powerful people start to act with humanity and decency? What if you…
What would it look like to travel across the Milky Way in four minutes? Our galaxy is 100,000 light-years across – traveling that distance in four minutes comes with interesting physics-related consequences. Come along for the ride as we fall into the Milky Way galaxy and back out again – take a look: Kudos…
Today, we’ve got a Scifi Superfan Roundup. This has never happened to me before – What do you do when all of your work suddenly pays off in one simple, unexpected gesture? I’ve spent years reaching out to people online, making friends, and some of them are very kind – I appreciate knowing them. It’s…
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Happy Monday – enjoy some pictures of 2008 EV5 – the star of Mike Sierra Echo! We’ve talked about this Aten-class Asteroid before – it’s the perfect counterweight for a future space elevator and astronomers have done the math to prove it. But what does 2008 EV5 – Evie the Asteroid in Mike Sierra Echo…
Interesting convo on Mastodon regarding Peter Cushing, deepfakes, and Disney. Simply put, we’re all better off if we calm down. Peter Cushing’s likeness in Rogue One was – whether you like deepfakes or Disney or not – legal. It was *legal*. Xatakaon’s take on this was ill-put, but maybe that was the point to begin…
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Hooray – we made it to Sci-Friday – let’s enjoy the beautiful cyberpunk chaos of Dynamo. It’s a dystopian science fiction web series created by Ian Hubert and Scott Hampson, and the side series Dynamo Dream, that anyone can edit! Here’s Episode 1, Part 1 of the spin-off series Dynamo Dreams. Take a look: Sounds…
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Eerie news this week – this is what happens when Big Tech runs out of ideas. Not for nothing, but why is it endemic for big companies to stop understanding who their customers are? Do they have a ‘No Ideas’ department, or what? I always thought Big Tech companies had a team inside the company…
