Category Archives: Technology
Future Tech & Plot Bunnies
This is going to be super quick – I forgot I was going to be in a hotel room this morning, prior to going to an NHL hockey game (my first live playoff game). Last week on Facebook, I came across these links (and I can’t for the life of me remember who posted them […]
Through the Future Lens: Illness & Injury
For us, one of the fun things about science fiction is imagining how life will be better in the far future. In our stories set in the Pandora Project universe, we’ve dreamt of a world where cures have been found for most serious illnesses, where doctors can cure cancer and regrow organs—even whole limbs, given […]
Hodge Podge
The evil, never-ending manuscript is finally done! Needs some editing still, but DONE nonetheless. I was aiming for 40K and ended up with 66K. But that wasn’t the only issue. During the making of this most recent sci-fi: I had several months of back pain such that I was physically incapable of writing. My father […]
10 Fun Space Tweets
I see the coolest things on Twitter. Things I probably would never have discovered otherwise. Some of it I could have probably done without (now it’s just like space junk floating around in my head taking up valuable space) but some of it is interesting and entertaining. Best of all, some of it is perfect […]
Science Fiction Stuff I Am SO Ready For
It’s been an amazing run, over the last hundred years or so, of inventions and technological advancements. Even so, there are a few things I am impatiently awaiting. 1. The Teleporter: It’s amazingly difficult to get my kids off to school on the bus every morning. One refuses to wear winter gear even in the […]
Books, books, books aka Christmas swag
I’m fitting in a quick post before I have to consume the very very last of the turkey. I admit, I’m easy to buy for…as long as you buy me slightly odd and/or obscure reference books. This Christmas I bagged 5 – 4 on the seers, oracles and roman curiosities and one on synthetic biology. […]
Boxing Day Musings
Hello? Is anyone out there? *crickets* It’s Boxing Day (the day after Christmas for those who don’t know, and a holiday I miss as a Canadian living in the States) – I hope those of you that celebrate Christmas had a wonderful day. But I also suspect that means very few people are out browsing […]
Talking about “Liar’s Game” with author Kait Gamble
I recently read Liar’s Game by Kait Gamble, published by Carina Press. It’s a novella about a rag-tag crew of former prison inmates who are presumed dead and want it to remain that way. But, as a result, they’re stuck living in space, scrounging to survive. A bit like Firefly. They find a stowaway on […]
Lament of a Lapsed Luddite
Seems weird that a sci-fi fan & writer sometimes has an issue with advancing technology, doesn’t it? And yet, that’s the case with me, although I kind of waffle between loving it and hating it. I had to be dragged kicking and screaming to a proper computer with Windows, back in the day. It’s only […]
On Artificial Intelligence
You could say it all started with Frankenstein. Man creates lifeform using science. Lifeform yearns to be like man. Realises it can never be. Seeks to punish man. Man becomes trapped by his own creation. It’s one of the staple themes of science fiction, and one of the most popular: the revenge of technology on […]
