Yeah… that puts things into perspective. And the interstellar travel in your SF story works… how? Powered by handwavium! Oh, well that’s all right then. (spotted on EpicFTW)
A nifty video on the relative scale of things in the universe. Read More »
There’s an interesting meme going around based on Sandra McDonald’s periodic table of women in science fiction. At Wiscon this weekend, an audience member asked if women weren’t writing hard SF. I said that they were, but since I hadn’t done my homework couldn’t come up with a good list. My feeling is that fairly few
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Eek! How did I not post this earlier? My story “Body Language” is now up at OSC’s Intergalactic Medicine Show with an awesome cover illustration which you must now appreciate in all its glory. And here’s a teaser of the story. Saskia leaned into the darkness above the stage, only vaguely aware of the wood
Body Language at IGMS Read More »
I have been impressed with Jane Espenson’s work as a writer for a long time. She’s just truly won my heart in this interview. Q: People have said BSG didn’t need to be science fiction to get the story across. If that’s true, would it be even more true for Caprica? A: Any story worth
Caprica Producer Jane Espenson on SciFi Read More »
Gord Sellar was born in Malawi, raised in Canada, and now is living in South Korea, where he works as a professor and is researching the status and development of Korean SF. His writing has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Interzone, and Apex Magazine, among other places, and his story “Lester Young and the Jupiter’s
Campbell nominee interview: Gord Sellar Read More »
While I’m off building crows today, here’s a poignant short film. I’ll be back later with process shots. Forever’s Not So Long from garrettmurray on Vimeo.
Very nice End of the World short film Read More »
While I was in San Fransisco, John Scalzi and I headed over to Borderlands to do a reading. The day before we went, Scalzi suggested doing science-fiction improv, which sounded like a ridiculous amount of fun. Fortunately, John Nichols brought his digital recorder and captured the whole evening. Scalzi, being the good guy that he
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I’m sure there’s a perfectly logical and no-fun explanation about this… Archeologists in China are baffled after finding a tiny Swiss watch in a 400-year-old tomb. But it’s straight out of an SF story, isn’t it. via Ananova – Swiss watch found in 400-year-old tomb.
Proof of time travel? Read More »
I’ll admit that this post exists largely because my new toy let’s me blog while at the salon. [1. This bit is just a note to myself for next time, because I am daft with names. Rick did my haircut and Larry did the color.] I promise not to do it often, since it’s largely
Having my hair done Read More »
I’m delighted that “Evil Robot Monkey” will be appearing in Mr. Horton’s anthology, Science Fiction: The Best of the Year 2009. This is the second of my stories that he’s taken and I’m thrilled that he continues to enjoy what I do. Here’s a snippet of Evil Robot Monkey, as a teaser. Sliding his hands
Sale! “Evil Robot Monkey” to Rich Horton’s Science Fiction: The Best of the Year Read More »
Check out Mike Brotherton’s list of Ten Issues for Hard Science Fiction, complete with handy links. There are a number of issues that continue to keep coming up in hard science fiction, or any science fiction trying to get the facts right. I just helped my collaborator here a few days ago answer a reporter’s
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Biology in Science Fiction did a write-up about some of my SF stories and the biology contained therein. That was a really nice thing. But not half as nice as discovering that there’s a blog devoted to biology in SF. How cool is that? (Thanks to Jeremy Tolbert for pointing it out ((Yes, I have
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I was just reading an article about how NASA plans to return astronauts to the moon by 2020 and thinking that it was forever from now. Only, it’s like twelve years, which, as government agencies go is practically tomorrow. It’s just that after eight years I’m still not used to living in the twenty-first century.
2020 is near-term SF Read More »
The editor at IGMS asked me to pass this along to you. I think highly of him, and he’s offering free fiction. How could I say no? When you have something great, you want everyone to know. So you tell people about it. You share it. You pass it along to friends everywhere. Well, that’s
To Readers of Science Fiction and Fantasy everywhere Read More »
I think I’ve just had an epiphany about the writers who are clearly writing SF but say, “I don’t write SF.” Allow me to explain. My last couple of sales have been stories which can be called horror to varying degrees. Now if you ask me what I’ve written, I’ll tell you that I write
But, I don’t write [blank]. Read More »