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So this was a new thing to research, and since I’m procrastinating about a particular part of what I’m writing, I drilled in this morning. The thing about science fiction is that there’s science involved. It’s not exactly a big secret with the name being stuck in the title of th...
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So there you have it: my assessment of the pros and cons of different human/alien combinations as the framework for writing a good science fiction story, and some examples of each. Going through this thought process has given me an even deeper appreciation for how well the good science ficti...
When Isaac Asmiov was writingI, Robot, the field of robotics was still in its infancy. As he notes inThe Complete Robot, as the field began to mature, it started showing signs of conforming to the popular ideas held by science fiction writers about what robotics ought to be. Notions of ...
Frank Coffman is a retired professor of English, Creative Writing, and Journalism. He has published speculative poetry and fiction in a variety of magazines, journals, and anthologies. His four major speculative poetry collections: The Coven’s Hornbook & Other Poems (2019), Black Flames & Gleam...
Everybody has a unique definition. To be sure, it is poetry (we'll leavethatdefinition to you), but it’s poetry with some element ofspeculationin the narrow sense—usually science fiction, fantasy, or horror, though some include straight science. SFPA’s founder, Suzette Haden Elgin, shar...
Richard Fox is the winner of the 2017 Dragon Award for Best Military Science Fiction or Fantasy novel. He's best known for The Ember War Saga, a military science fiction and space opera series. His writing draws extensively from his experiences in the United States Army, where he served two...
In the process of writing my last article my mind wandered, as it is wont to do, down a myriad of paths suggested by what I was writing. One of those paths was the cyclical nature of end-of-world prophesies, which in turn reminded me of a classic genre piece that revolves around the...
Lois McMaster Bujold: Brainstorming is science fiction’s proper job. Winnowing the results is a different and weightier task. People don’t, in general, die from reading a bad novel, which is why writing can be one of the most unregulated professions in the world. You can spot the profes...