Posted in Robots, Science Fiction on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Of all the great ideas of science fiction our society seems to be working the fastest towards making stories about robots come true. How soon will it be before we have a Commander Data? We are still in the early stages of engineering a SF robot but yesterday I saw a film that made me [...]
Posted in Battle of the Sexes, Men and Women, Science Fiction on March 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Awhile back I wrote “What is Your Science Fiction Fantasy?” and I had a couple long and well thought out replies from my blogger friend Carl V of Stainless Steel Droppings that make me want to return to this subject. I’ve been a life-long science fiction fan, and my adolescence was filled with fantasies of [...]
Posted in Science Fiction on March 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I just finished reading Marsbound by Joe Haldeman as a serial in Analog SF. The book won’t be published until August but all parts of the serial can be found at Fictionwise.com. I got to study with Joe Haldeman and his wife Gay for a week in 2002 when I attended the Clarion West Writer’s [...]
Posted in Science Fiction on March 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I love science fiction short stories so it’s a pleasure to discover BestScienceFictionStories.com. And yesterday Rusty posts his list of “The 10 Best Web Sites for Free Online Science Fiction Stories.” Even though the print magazines are losing subscribers short stories are finding new venues on the web. This site is slowly recognizing and reviewing [...]
Posted in Fiction, Philosophy, Science Fiction on March 6, 2008 | 9 Comments »
What is your personal science fiction fantasy? Let’s say you die and wake up in front of a superior being and he/she/it tells you to pick your next life, what would it be? You can pick anything from reality, your own imagination or from any fictional world you’ve encountered. It’s a big multiverse out there [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Science Fiction on February 23, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’ve yet to read any science fiction extrapolating stories about the effects of global warming. The Road by Cormac McCarthy could be about global warming but it could also be about anything that brings on the collapse of civilization. So I jumped over to Google and searched on ["science fiction" "global warming"] and discovered there [...]
Posted in Magazines, Science Fiction on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My favorite SF/F magazine, Fantasy & Science Fiction is getting a lot of attention this week because of their new blog. I’ve been reading this magazine since the mid 1960s and I eventually collected most of the issues back to the early 1950s. Sad to say I had to sell my collection during lean college [...]
Posted in Computers, Fiction, Information, Inventions, Kindle, Science Fiction on February 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve always loved science fiction but keeping up with the genre is a big damn job. I constantly worry I’m going to miss a breakthrough novel with the impact of Neuormancer or The Life of Pi or Replay just because I was wasn’t keeping up with the times.
As a young bookworm I read several [...]
Posted in Science Fiction on February 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There’s a major difference between science fiction and fantasy. Both work with the “What if…” hypothesis, but there should be a distinct difference in intent that the reader should recognize. The Sci-Fi writer might say, “What if we could travel to the planets?” Whereas the fantasy writer might say, “What if fairies lived in Central [...]
Posted in Science Fiction on February 1, 2008 | 5 Comments »
My power went off Tuesday afternoon just as I was getting home from work and didn’t come back on for twenty-six hours. It was cold and dark outside and I sat bundled up in blankets thinking about what I would blog. My two cats struggled for the warmest place on my lap while I listened to [...]
