Science Fiction

A 34-post collection

Get the entire Hevun’s Child Trilogy for less than $6US!Get it now, read it now, and leave rave reviews so that others can know how...

Get the entire Hevun’s Child Trilogy for less than $6US!

Get it now, read it now, and leave rave reviews so that others can know how great it is! Join the hundreds who have downloaded their free copy of Hevun’s Rebel!

Join the rare few who have elected to buy the rest of the series!

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Real talk time, people. This short story? The very first Amalgam Universe story I ever wrote? It’s going to get unpublished,...

Real talk time, people.

This short story? The very first Amalgam Universe story I ever wrote? It’s going to get unpublished, soon.

Why?

Well, because I’m trying to get it published on the pro circuit. I’m waving it at all kinds of sci-fi magazines, and having it already out on Smashwords means that some publications won’t take it.

I already can’t look at some publications because they won’t take previously

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Get the complete Hevun’s Child trilogy at Smashwords! Join Sahra Johnston in her daring escapades, endeavouring to gain freedom for...

Get the complete Hevun’s Child trilogy at Smashwords!

Join Sahra Johnston in her daring escapades, endeavouring to gain freedom for herself and for her people, enslaved under the tyrannical claw of the Majestrix Tarqa of the Tu'att. Thrill at her narrow escapes. Marvel at her alien friends. And share in her ultimate victory.

You can own three books for the price of two!

ACT NOW!

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COMING SOON! I’ve nearly finished editing, dear readers, and I am going to attempt to break this one up into chapters. Something...

COMING SOON!

I’ve nearly finished editing, dear readers, and I am going to attempt to break this one up into chapters. Something I’m admittedly not very comfortable with.

I just need to hurry my beta-readers up a smidge.

Fingers crossed, I get this out for the yuletide rush!

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Biotech Startups Tap Spider Genes in Quest to Spin Silk Gold | Xconomy

Biotech Startups Tap Spider Genes in Quest to Spin Silk Gold | Xconomy

Only my beta-readers know what arachnafibre might be. Now the world has it.

I have to write faster…

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Project Hieroglyph

Project Hieroglyph

Guess what I just joined?

I figure it’s a good way to discuss Science Fiction in general, mine in particular, and how to step up my game without rebuilding my universe in the process.

Amalgam is optimistic. Humans made it off the planet. Humans managed to reach a point where their differences are interesting. In brief - black and white teamed up against green ;)

…it’s just that I have a horrible dystopia as the feature

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mumlymag: geekmomblog: (via Women Destroy Science Fiction! This Kickstarter Will Wreck Everything! | GeekMomGeekMom) On January 15,...

mumlymag:

geekmomblog:

(via Women Destroy Science Fiction! This Kickstarter Will Wreck Everything! | GeekMomGeekMom)

On January 15, Lightspeed Magazine launched a daring plan: an all-women double issue, to appear online and in e-subscription. To fund the project, guest editor Christie Yant and her team set a Kickstarter goal of $5,000. They came up with great rewards and described their goals:

It could be said that women invented science fiction; after all, Mary Shelley wrote what is considered by many to be the

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Stfu Assholes: goddessofcheese: hippyveganchick: fffcuk: lzbth: 'got herself...

Stfu Assholes: goddessofcheese: hippyveganchick: fffcuk: lzbth: ‘got herself...

goddessofcheese:

hippyveganchick:

fffcuk:

lzbth:

'got herself pregnant' is the dumbest phrase in the world like forreal if it was possible to get pregnant by ourselves we'd have eaten all the men long ago

it actually is possible to get pregnant (without the sperm of a man…



Science has surpassed the need for men.

It begins with a secret facility on the isle of Lesbos, and soon spreads through covert fertility clinics all over

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When good Science Fiction contains Bad Science

I can’t be the only person annoyed by this. Science fiction is supposed to contain science. Especially the kind of science even a layperson can recognize.

If a layperson can correct your mishandled physics, bad math, chemistry failures and so on… it irritates me no end.

Especially when writers use said bad science as a major plot point.

It’s like hanging a chandelier with chewing gum. The foundation is flawed and the whole thing collapses.

And some

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