Category Archives: The Future
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: Tomorrow’s Sports
Sports—all kinds of physical and mental competition—have been an important part of every society recorded almost as far back as our history can reach. It stands to reason that the future would also have its share of sports and popular competitions. A look around at a lot of science fiction shows that other writers include […]
Through the Future Lens: Food
Food in the future has always been a popular source of speculation. Whether they imagine replicator-style units in Star Trek, plates of alien seaweed teeming with live insects in Titan AE, meal ‘pills’, tasteless rations, meat vats, yeast farms, and more, people have come up with as many visions of what food will be like […]
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 […]
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 […]
DNA tracking is now. Not the future.
If you read or write dystopian fiction, you may have considered whether or not big brother is watching. Or rather, what might happen in the future if we really did have a world-wide breakdown and the government became oppressive in all the evil, totalitarian ways of nightmares. Well, not to add to the paranoia of […]
Spot the Future
When Anah was a kid at camp, she used to go out at night with her friends and search the sky for satellites. Far up north in Canada, there were a few that looped low enough to be seen as silver streaks moving through the night. Several years ago, Dianne went to an Iridium Watch […]
The Year to Come: Lilly Cain
Looking Back 2012 wasn’t exactly fun. Although I released Undercover Alliance and a couple of other, non-related novellas, it wasn’t a writing year. It was a survival year. Laid off from my day job, dealing with family illness, struggling as nearly everything broke down (even me, LOL). Truthfully, I don’t want to look back at […]
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 […]
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 […]
