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Fiction: Rescued For Life
Because of The Connor Wars, many of you know me as a screenwriter. That’s good–that’s pretty much how I know me, too. That said, I’m not totally incapable of writing fiction in the traditional way. Here’s a little something from the archives: a science fiction short story about the necessity of limits.
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15 Ways Science Will Kill Us All
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Tagged apocalypse, humor, satire, science, science fiction, sf
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The Physics of Space Battles – Gizmodo
The diff between “hard” SF and “soft” SF? You worry about stuff like this when you write the “hard” stuff. The Physics of Space Battles – Gizmodo.
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Tagged battle, creative, physics, sci-fi, science fiction, sf, space, war, writing
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Peter’s Evil Overlord List
Writers, especially beginning writers, need to study this list to help avoid cliched writing: Peter’s Evil Overlord List.
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Tagged cliche, genre, humor, overlord, science fiction, sf, tips, writing
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Five Tips For Getting Television and Science Fiction to Play Nice
Science Fiction (SF and SF/F – Science Fiction and Fantasy) on television has never been an easy sell. If you look at the history of the medium, you find few SF/F entries among those series that had a good run. Mostly it’s a road littered with what-might-have-been-if-onlies.
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Tagged audience, creative, fanboys, fangirls, network, science fiction, sf, sff, show, studio, success, suits, television, tips, tv
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Star Trek Memories
I’ve had Star Trek be a part of my life since 1967. I was in elementary school at the time. Though I didn’t quite latch on to the series when it started, by the end of the first season I was hooked. Who knew that 42 years later, I’d still be talking about it?
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Tagged convention, fan, fandom, fanfic, fiction, motion picture, movies, science fiction, scifi, sf, star trek, television, Trek, trekker, trekkie, trekkist, tribbles, tv
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Terminator Fans Are a Force in End-of-season Polls
It’s been interesting to watch this year’s round of Poll-ballot-stuffing a/k/a which bubble show should be saved surveys. Every season, the passionate fans of a series band together and do their level best to flood sites with just as many votes as possible.
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Tagged bubble, chronicles, chuck, fans, fox, kristin, poll, programming, ratings, sarah connor, save, science fiction, sf, show, television, terminator, ttscc, tv, vote
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Living In The Science Fiction World
When I sit back and look around our world at all of the mundane stuff we take for granted, I can’t help but be amazed. So many things were only in the wild imaginations of science fiction writers—not centuries ago, but within my own lifetime. What a wonder it all is.
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Tagged cell phone, change, communication, computer, cybernetics, cyborg, flight, future, hope, phone, robot, science fiction, scifi, sf, space, station, technology, telephone, travel
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