Tag: science fiction
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Flash Fiction: Open-Source Minds
“Break it up! Break it up! You’re in a feedback loop!” Ms. Moriah had grabbed the two boys by their shirt-collars and was wrenching them apart. Within moments, her thoughts were interceding between their minds, just as her arms were pushing apart their bodies. Alvin and Cory were both breathing hard, staring at one another…
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Flash SF Story: The Way of the Dinosaurs
“I don’t understand why we have to leave Earth for a stupid space ship anyway,” Tory, my 10-year-old daughter, griped. She had been a muttering, grumpy bundle of joy all day as we loaded belongings into our assigned shuttle. “Because it’s time for the human race to grow up and join the galactic community,” I…
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Prescience, Futurism, Hard SF… Go See WALL-E
WALL-E’s Curiosity Gives it Purpose Credit: Pixar Studios Great Science Fiction films come out so rarely that I am overjoyed when a movie like Pixar’s WALL-E hits the screens. This is one of those rare SF stories that ventures into the distant future, a place so alien most SF writers don’t want to touch it.…
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Flash SF Story: Scriptures
“Father,” Demetrius’ voice trembled, his youthful blue eyes were swollen and watery, “I cannot absolve myself of these doubts.” Lord Balthasar placed two firm and reassuring hands on Demetrius’ shoulders, welcoming this distraction from the unrelenting hunger pains that plagued them all, “It is uncommon for one to question their faith in such desperate times,…
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Movies You Can Skip: 10,000 B.C.
10,000 B.C. tells the story of a tribe of people living in what is, to my mother’s best guess, the Himalayas. All year long, the tribe looks forward to when the mammoths come migrating through their land, so they can hold their great hunt. This is actually right about the time Mammoths went extinct due…
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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…
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“Simulation’s End” Posted to Oort-Cloud
Miniscule zygotes, Grow up to form memes, Verily, Verily, Verily, Verily, Life is but a real-time strategy game. I’ve been playing around speculatively with this whole Physical World as a Virtual Reality concept and wrote a short story exploring some of the implications: Anzel took a deep breath and closed his eyes as the cooling…
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What a Wonderful Trip It’s Been: Y the Last Man
Y the Last Man I would love to go back and read through all the graphic novels I’ve bought collecting this series from its beginnings, but they’ve all been loaned out to people who loaned them out to other people and so on and so on. I did recently have the time to review my…
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Carl Sagan Appears in Atomic Robo!!!
Note: I’m getting a lot of hits on this post, so visitors might like to know that Carl Sagan made a second bad-ass appearance in “Atomic Robo” a little more recently too. In issue #4 Robo gets knocked out and has a dream where Carl “Cosmos” Sagan asks Robo to fly shotgun on the Viking…
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“The Reluctant Transhumanist” Posted at Oort-Cloud
I’ve posted my short story The Reluctant Transhumanist to Oort-Cloud. It’s about a young man sacrificing his humanity to pursue his dreams. I’m gonna work on getting more stuff up there in the coming months. I’ve got a backlog of SF stories I need to get out of my writing folder that I keep getting…
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Cloverfield Creeped Me Out
Saw Clovefield this morning and the film has been haunting me all day. It’s abstractness, catching glimpses of the monster here and there, trying to figure it out, has left me distracted and scouring the Web for more information. A commenter I read at one site said to watch the ocean carefully in the background…
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Mind Webs: 49 hours Worth of Speculative Fiction Radio
Mind Webs CD Cover Here’s an online treasure trove of audio files brought to you by the Internet Archive of the 1970s radio series Mind Webs. The show featured the greatest speculative fiction stories from top-notch authors of the day. You can find a summary of plotlines here. I’ve been listening to the shows for…