Category: Creative Commons Works

  • Makers: A Creative Commons Licensed Sitcom About a Nerdy Family

    In 2016, I was notified by a friend of a new partnership between Google and The Black List to give grants to screenplays promoting diversity and challenging nerd stereotypes in film. There were articles about it referencing the Computer Science Education in Media program run by Julie Ann Crommett at Google. So I spent a…

  • Future Forgers: A Creative Commons LARP for Kids and Parents

    CC-Licensed Artwork by Posthuman Studios: “Neo-Porpoise Morph” by Jessada Sutthi “Salamander Morph” by Silver Saaramael “Infomorph Mercurial Investigator” by Daniel Clarke “Flying Squid” by Joe Wilson “Basic Pod” by James Mosingo “Crasher Morph” by Jose Cabrera “Menton Morph Brinker Genehacker” by Daniel Clarke At this moment 7.5 billion human neocortexes are experiencing a world filled…

  • Creative Commons Children’s Book: ABC’s of Biodiversity

    ABCs of Biodiversity from ideonexus Download a PDF Version Here (30MB) Download a PPTX Version Here (103MB) This book is another tool in the myriad strategies we parents use to teach our children. The ebook format allows something print books don’t: an alphabet book with 10 examples of each letter. This means there are 260…

  • Entropy of Imagination, a Creative Commons Ebook

    Entropy of Imagination Credit: Moi Trapped in a World Running Out of Ideas… Thousands of years ago, before he was trapped on an isolated computer system, Flatline was programmed to conquer the world. Today he’s escaped back to the World Wide Web, where he hopes to find his way back to the real world. Except…

  • The Safeguard, A Creative Commons Comic Book Script

    Posting this on the off-chance that there is an aspiring comic artist out there who might be interested in collaborating with an aspiring writer. I had found a fantastic cartoonist to work with me on this project, but, unfortunately, real life was making too many demands on his time, but this is our start. The…

  • An Invitation to Speculate: Your Clone and You

    Clones Ryan Somma I’ve gotten a lot of feedback on my free creative commons e-book Clones, and I was amazed that, while everyone had their own favorite stories from the collection, the one that got best reviews was Ryan’s Clone, where I speculate on what it would be like to spend a day at the…

  • Free Creative Commons E-Book: “Clones”

    Your cloned child is a mirror, simultaneously reflecting who you are and what you might have been. It’s potential was your potential. Can your clone achieve the dreams that fell to the wayside in your own life, or is it doomed to repeat your mistakes? Clones is a collection of speculative short-stories that explores the…

  • The Spiraling Web a Free Science Fiction E-Book by Ryan Somma

    The Spiraling Web Years of writing and rewriting this novel and peddling it around to dozens of agents have made me realize it could eventually be overcome by events and never be read. This is a hard-SF cyberpunk novel that I wrote in 2003, and have been rewriting ever since. Here’s the pitch: The cycs…

  • Creative Commons Screenplay: “Shah Mat”

    Download a free PDF of this screenplay. Logline: Ian returns from college to reluctantly hang out and play a game of chess with is old friend Duf, who runs a comic book shop. Their competitive conversation mimics the competitive nature of their game. Estimated Running Time: 73 Minutes Shah Mat by Ryan Somma is licensed…

  • Creative Commons Screenplay: “Schroedinger’s Cat”

    Download a free PDF of this screenplay. Logline: A man wakes up in a room without an exit and cannot remember who he is. He must piece together the person he used to be and what his role is in this twisted experiment. Only the truth may be too horrifying for him to accept. Estimated…

  • Creative Commons Screenplay: “Smalltime”

    Download a free PDF of this screenplay. Logline: Shane is a young rebellious soul who didn’t want to go to college, but since he’s there, he’s going to make the most of it, and takes up selling marijuana to pay his tuition and living expenses. Estimated Running Time: 102 Minutes Smalltime by Ryan Somma is…

  • Creative Commons Screenplay: “Detail of a Life”

    Download a free PDF of this screenplay. Loglines: Spring Dawn: A child prodigy seeking freedom in a world of adult expectations. Summer Day: A young man seeking true love in a flashy world without substance. Autumn Twilight: A middle-aged man dares to dream in a world where dreaming is insanity. Winter Night: An old man…