Space Time Stories

if books printed with atoms disappear from our lives then God help our society because we are doomed

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Interesting ideas on creativity from Creatologue.

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Scifi pessimists say – we’ll never be able to feed 8 billion people.
Scifi optimists invent algae which can fix nitrogen from the air, generate fertilizer, and live in a symbiotic relationship with roots of food plants in airborne greenhouses.
Scifi pessimists say – global warming will kill us all.
Scifi optimists invent CO2 scavenging algae which generate [...]

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
I have never cared about the zombie theme, but I can’t wait to read this.

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Just finished listening to Joe Haldeman’s “The Accidental Time Machine” from Audible.

As a time travel story it was excellent, there was a time machine, multiple uses of that machine, time travel was a key element of the story, and there was even a time loop. The overall story dragged at many points, especially when [...]

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Six word scifi stories are excellent !
Mine says:
Time machine broken, dinosaurs are drooling !

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Want to be a great writer?  Quit using adjectives and adverbs.   Use verbs.
Here’s a list of verbs.  Right-click “Save As” to save these to a file.
Study them and use them. Your writing will shift to a new level.
If you like this list perhaps you might consider reading your next book on a Kindle !

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The data robots have started to take over, see http://www.mydl.me/ for details.

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I have started listening to a free audiobook, Singularity by Bill DeSmedt. So far it’s great, it’s about the real cause of the Tunguska explosion.
I’ll review the book when I’m done listening to it.
I listen to it as a podcast feed.  I had some trouble setting up the feed in iTunes, the response of [...]

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This is slightly off topic for this blog, but I found this ZenHabits post to be deeply profound.  To sum it up, virtually everyone fits into a pidgeonhole:  the smart guy, the cold physician, the golf hack, the office gossip, the troubleshooter, the troublemaker.  It applies to scifi writers too.  How many pidgeonholed authors have [...]

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