Upcoming Things and Links

Well there are some important things coming up soon here, and I’ll have some fun links for everyone too.First, I have an interview from Dana Copithorne in the works. I sent her my questions not too long ago. Sorry for the delay, but I not only was stuck right in the middle of the fall […]

Fantasy Creature Inspiration!

It’s hard to come up with valid articles that deals with fantasy. The reason being that there isn’t much in the realm of fantasy to really talk about that hasn’t already been discussed to death. I will certainly discuss things if they come up in a comment, but generally I think you can find the […]

Inflatable Moon Habitat: Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight…

M*A*S*H meets the Moon…….Because micrometeors and other such fast moving space objects can’t puncture through that at all…I can see the headlines already: “Moon colonists die from rapid decompression” or “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” (that one’s a funny pun…) Is anyone else thinking that this is a seriously bad idea? Or am I […]

Don’t Write Speculative Fiction If…

…any of the following things are true. Science Fiction: You can’t handle the idea that your audience is smaller than fantasy and more specific. You think science fiction is retelling Star Wars or Star Trek ad naseum. You believe that FTL travel is logical and implies ‘hard’ science fiction. You think populating all alien planets […]

Space Travel De-mystified

Well, here we are living in a world where we can barely get human beings to the moon and with NASA constantly canceling projects like network TV drops shows, the chances of sending people to Mars get worse and worse. But science fiction writers aren’t simply going to give up writing about faster-than-light spaceships because […]

Sacrificing Quality For Style in Spec. Lit.

To say that the idea of sacrificing quality for style applies only to speculative literature would be a severe misrepresentation of the truth. However, speculative literature has one problem that literary fiction seems to either be incapable of addressing or simply never plans to address in the first place: speculative literature must always entertain. This […]