A common theme in many of today’s scifi stories is one of desolation, typically a planet ruined by human activity, or a population which cannot be properly fed or sustained.
Where is the creative thinking which gave birth to our precious genre? Where are the hero scientists who learn to feed a million people per [...]
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Why are scifi authors so pessimistic about the future?
August 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments
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Free Science Fiction
July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
I found a couple of blogs which discuss free science fiction. One of the reasons I plan to write science fiction short stories here on my blog is that I see little value in trying to get them published. The financial incentive is not worth the wait, and would not enough to allow [...]
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Free Science Fiction from Tor
June 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Tor Books offers free science fiction downloads every week just for signing up. Not sure if they ever have science fiction short stories.
This week’s book is In the Midnight Hour by Patti O’Shea. The next book will be Battlestar Galactica by Jeffrey Carver.
They don’t appear to have a science fiction blog.
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Fermis Paradox
June 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Fermi’s Paradox can be resolved in many ways. My preference is the following:
Natural evolution of advanced species is much rarer than most Darwinists would have you believe. It is in fact so rare that the probability of at least one species evolving in any given galaxy is below 1 (perhaps well below 1). [...]
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The Best Time Travel Movies
June 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments
A recent post on TopTenz offered the Top 10 time travel movies. With all due respect it’s not clear that “time travel” was an important concept in this list. For example, in the Terminator movies there is a single time travel event at the very beginning of the movie and then nothing more. [...]
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The Best Time Travel Movie Never Released in Theaters
May 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments
What are some of the best science fiction movies never released to theaters?
May 25 we may see the best one yet, The Andromeda Strain on A&E looks excellent.
Children of Dune was outstanding on SciFi.
Slipstream was never released in the USA because it was a flop in the UK.
Anybody know of any good [...]
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Richard Morgan on Internecine SciFi Warfare
May 5th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Richard Morgan has some hostile words for the battles ongoing within the science fiction community.
http://www.richardkmorgan.com/article_soundfury.htm
His comments are great, but we need more analysis. Why is there civil warfare inside our genre? Isn’t there room enough for all of us?
1 First of all, more than anything else, this is about money. [...]
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