I won’t pretend that the technology in The Guns Above was easy to imagine. I spent months working out the details and checking them against real-world analogues. A thousand cool and exciting ideas were cut down in their prime, excised by the cruel blade of reality, because I wanted tech that would pass the test […]
Read More “The Guns Above” Author Robyn Bennis on Imagined TechnologyBy Lewis Darnell As an astrobiologist I spend a lot of my time working in the lab with samples from some of the most extreme places on Earth, investigating how life might survive on other worlds in our solar system and what signs of their existence we could detect. If there is biology beyond the […]
Read More Why Would Aliens Even Bother with Earth?Sometimes in my stories, a space ship *does* blow up on page three. But even then, my work always has something deeper to say, and I find the dismissal irritating. Every science fiction writer has something that drives him or her. For many if not most writers this is the need to pen a […]
Read More A Space Ship Does Not Blow Up on Page ThreeBy Jessica Lourey When my husband died unexpectedly in 2001, I’d never heard of expressive writing. And you know what? It wouldn’t have mattered if I had. Three months pregnant, raising a three-year-old, and suddenly a widow, the last thing I wanted to do was spend even one sharp second journaling about how I felt. […]
Read More The Therapeutic Benefits of Writing a NovelYou can now pre-order Vice & Virtue, Wyrd West Chronicles #2, at this link! Get it while it’s hot! Also, to get access to a FREE copy of Wyrd West Chronicles #1, just sign up for my newsletter! Pete Woodhouse doesn’t like to get involved. Too many complications, too dangerous to his person. But when […]
Read More Pre-Order for Vice & Virtue Now Available!A little nerd humour for the BC election today. North Vancouver has become the ultimate battleground for a pair of intergalactic candidates. Reddit user hpka spotted these Simpsons-inspired campaign signs on the Mount Seymour Parkway. Read the full article at the Vancouver Sun.
Read More Spotted on Reddit: Kodos, Kang in Tight Race in North VancouverThis is going to sound like a product endorsement, and I suppose it is, but I just downloaded this thing (which is free) and I love it! I was looking for an app where I could keep track of my word count outside of NaNoWriMo, and this was the first app that popped up on […]
Read More I Just Discovered #WriteometerLet’s imagine a thought experiment. An aggressive viral plague has struck humanity. Spreading astonishingly quickly through our modern world of dense cities and international airliners, we’d already lost the fight in a matter of weeks. Civilisation has collapsed and the vast majority of humanity has died. But you’ve survived. You fell deliriously ill, but through […]
Read More How to Cope with the End of the WorldI finally accepted the wisdom of those with more experience than myself, and despite deploring spam, I have gotten an email newsletter service. Which means, of course, that you *know* I’m not going to send you worthless garbage or pester you daily! If you subscribe I will let you know about my projects and new […]
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