Golden Age Scifi and Other Cool Stuff by Jackson Allen
So yeah, life is horrible sometimes but you know what? Sometimes people are really cool. I posted something on Imgur yesterday about the struggle of being an author. The real story wasn’t the picture, though. It was how kind the community was to me and the other struggling, aspiring authors in the thread that continues…
For this Sci-Friday, take a step into the surreal, hilarious world of StrangeVehicles, a multi-year scifi project by Trevor Roberts I can only describe as: “What if the Sarlacc Pit was a national park?” This 16-minute overview of the Mystery Flesh Pit National Park is a walking tour through brilliant scifi, and fully-immersive science fiction….
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So let me talk to the authors and aspiring creatives for a moment. Like you, I suffer with author ‘imposter syndrome’ and other toxic self-defeating behaviors. Many authors do. That’s why I cheer when Neil Gaiman and John Scalzi murder your author myths. They’ve already been through the meatgrinder, giving them the requisite insight to…
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Wow – back from a two-week break. Check out some new free scifi wallpapers and follow along as we catch up. Tons of stuff has been happening behind the scenes as I continue to write Cinderellavator. Additionally, I participated in #Pitmad yesterday on Twitter and Mesh found a whole group of new people excited about…
If you’re into solarpunk, you’ll want to watch this fascinating TED talk. Bjarke Ingel is using solarpunk and future architecture to show us how we’ll get to the beautiful future we’re dreaming about. Whether consciously, or unconsciously, Ingel encapsulates solarpunk concepts in this tour of his team’s projects. First, look at a waste-to-energy power plant…
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Click Here to Read Part One – So yesterday’s blog post was the beginning of a conversation about applying craftsmanship to scifi through the use of a ‘maturity model.’ I spent most of that post talking about ‘why we should think about this.’ Immaturity in science fiction represents an existential threat; ignore the disaster and…
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Quick, want to nerd out about something? Forget dissecting another ‘who would win, the Enterprise or a Star Destroyer‘ argument. Instead, let’s talk scifi craftsmanship and maturity models. Would you believe that it’s possible to grow scifi as a genre and community? Would you like to be a part of that process? We can do…
Wanna feel old? 1991 was 30 years ago. For this Sci-Friday, we take an interesting slice-of-life look at the day in 1991 when we lost scifi pioneer and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. History shows that it was the right decision. In a world where people go out of their way to ‘make a statement,’ Roddenberry…
Hi sci-fi fans … happy Thursday and another free short story for your to-be-read pile. For a limited time only, The Rocket is a free scifi short story available on Imgur. When I wrote it in 2019, I had no idea I was predicting the tragedy of anti-vaxxers and COVIDiots. As we approach the Singularity…
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