5 Mysterious Time Travelers
Good fuel for stories, whether there’s any truth to them or not!
Read More 5 Mysterious Time TravelersCategory: Aliens
The Map of Space Opera Mythology
#30days30authors What else would you add to this map?
Read More The Map of Space Opera MythologyWhy Would Aliens Even Bother with Earth?
By 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?Spotted on Reddit: Kodos, Kang in Tight Race in North Vancouver
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 VancouverSpace Opera Fiction is Back & Better Than Ever!
KAMERON HURLEY’S SCIENCE fiction novel The Stars Are Legion almost never saw the inside of a book store. She came up with the idea in 2012, but she and her agent didn’t think anyone would buy it. A “big gory political space opera” wasn’t something flying off the shelves at the time. But two years […]
Read More Space Opera Fiction is Back & Better Than Ever!Science in Sci-Fi, Fact in Fantasy
Now this was a resource I just had to share! I may, in the future, repost particular articles that are relevant to something I’m immediately writing, but there’s just too much stuff to post the whole series at once! Science in Sci-Fi, Fact in Fantasy is a blog series for authors and fans of speculative […]
Read More Science in Sci-Fi, Fact in FantasyBook Review: Star Songs of an Old Primate by James Tiptree Jr.
Star Songs of An Old Primate by James Tiptree Jr. My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge, the Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge, and the Collections! Reading Challenge at Worlds Without End. Two of the novellas in this collection were also counted towards similar, but not the […]
Read More Book Review: Star Songs of an Old Primate by James Tiptree Jr.Is Pulp Fiction Making a Comeback?
It seems that I’ve been hearing an awful lot about pulp fiction, especially pulp sci-fi, recently! All of a sudden it’s like everyone’s talking about it! As I’ve mentioned, I’m doing some writing for the Tales of the Stellar Deep RPG, which is clearly rooted in pulp sci-fi and horror. All of a sudden people […]
Read More Is Pulp Fiction Making a Comeback?A Note on Upcoming Projects!
So I figured it was time I talked a bit about my own writing, because I’m excited about it and I want other people to get excited about it! I’ve got a few irons in the fire right now: I’m working on two novels at the moment. The one I’m giving my most immediate attention […]
Read More A Note on Upcoming Projects!Novella Review: A Momentary Taste of Being by James Tiptree Jr.
A Momentary Taste of Being by James Tiptree Jr. My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read in Star Songs of An Old Primate as part of a few reading challenges: Big Fun in a Little Package Novella Challenge and the Women of Genre Fiction Challenge. The collection is also being read for the LGBTQ Reading […]
Read More Novella Review: A Momentary Taste of Being by James Tiptree Jr.
