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!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 FantasyOriginally posted on The Toy Soldier Saga:
Hello, Toy Soldier fans! Things are stirring in the ashes of the Toy Soldier Saga, which you may have noticed I have not done much with for the past couple of years. This was due to frustration at constantly being derailed at every turn. But I think I…
I am so excited about this! It’s a free online course in some basic astrophysics! It’s being put on by Australian National University. I can’t wait to get started! And I thought I would share in case some of my nerdy readers were interested too!
Read More Free Astrophysics Course!It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. ~ Arthur C. Clarke
Read More Putting Things in PerspectiveThe Martian by Andy Weir My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the 2017 Second Best Reading Challenge and the Hard Core Sci-Fi Reading Challenge. Before I read this book, I not only saw the movie (excellent,) I had the good fortune to see a video on YouTube that was a panel made up […]
Read More Book Review: The Martian by Andy WeirHoly wow! This was science fiction until today! We didn’t think this was possible! Link: NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star
Read More A Treasure-Trove of Worlds!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.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?My playlist for writing my near-future space thriller The Cloud. A lot of the music in this list is suspenseful as opposed to action-oriented to capture the mood.
Read More Space Music Playlist
