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AI and Me
Read more: AI and MeI don’t know what I think about AI (“artificial intelligence” for the uninitiated). Like any new advance in technology, especially technology of computers, it has the power to be useful […]
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What Should Science Fiction Do?
Read more: What Should Science Fiction Do?I’m a science fiction writer. While only a very few people have read any of my works, (mainly editors and critique group members), I do have wide-ranging opinions on the […]
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Mental Telepathy In Science Fiction
Read more: Mental Telepathy In Science FictionI’m currently working on a story of about 23,000 words (that makes it a “novella” or “novelette,” depending on your definition) that has to do with humans from Earth who […]
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Space Opera: A Definition
Read more: Space Opera: A DefinitionI have had, over the past 20 years or so that I’ve been trying to write science fiction, and on one or two occasions, to answer the question, “What is […]
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Where Are They? – Part 2
Read more: Where Are They? – Part 2In the previous entry in this series of blog posts about the possibility of alien life in our galaxy, and especially about such life visiting us here, I speculated about the […]
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Where Are They? Part 1
Read more: Where Are They? Part 1This is likely to be the first of three postings on a topic that has intrigued me for several years—the prospect of intelligent life on other planets. Enrico Fermi posed […]
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Bubonicon 50 – 2018
Read more: Bubonicon 50 – 2018Well, the Bubonicon Science Fiction convention #50 here in Albuquerque, NM is over for 2018. It ran from August 24 to 26, and as I do every year, I attended as much of […]
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Suspending Disbelief
Read more: Suspending DisbeliefIf you read much fiction, especially science fiction or fantasy, you may have heard of the phrase “the willing suspension of disbelief.” It’s used to indicate a willingness on the […]
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Sci-fi Worldbuilding: Anthropology
Read more: Sci-fi Worldbuilding: AnthropologyI just got back from the 2018 edition of the Pike’s Peak Writers Conference, (#PPWC2018) and had a great time. As usual. Lots of good sessions on many different aspects […]
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Some Random Observations
Read more: Some Random ObservationsIn this blog posting, I just want to make a few observations on a couple of aspects of writing. To wit: First, I stopped at a local Barnes and Noble […]
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Ideas
Read more: IdeasA few days ago I watched the second half of a movie from 1974, called “The White Dawn,” about three whalers, two Caucasian and one African American (played by Warren […]
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The High Tension of Life
Read more: The High Tension of LifeIn this blog post I want to talk a little about putting tension and conflict into story telling. I’ve just completed reading two science fiction novels (written by the same author) in which […]