Category: science fiction
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Star Trek: A New Storytelling Chapter
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The Trouble with Tribbles. Devil in the Dark. Wolf in the Fold. Catspaw. Some of the best episodes in the original Star Trek series. I even used one of the titles in my Chaos Roads trilogy, in homage. The original series was one of the most innovative shows to ever…
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Strange writer research
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“You’re researching what?” “Well,” I said to hubby, “I have this idea stuck in my head about the librarians on the archive planet of Jebeha being lizard-like.” He shrugged. He’s used to the weird things that come out of my brain. Why lizards? I don’t know — I just go…
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Next stop: the Twilight Zone!
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You’re traveling through another dimension – a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s a signpost up ahead: your next stop: the Twilight Zone! Fiction writers love to play with the ‘what if’ scenario.…
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Fascinating alien worlds
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Fantasy and sci-fi writers have so much fun creating worlds for their stories to take place in. We have total power – but, with great power comes great responsibility 😉 For me, at least, the geography, physics and inhabitants have to make a certain amount of sense, although every year…