Science Fiction | Science Fiction
Jul.04.2012
I’m struck by the recent book review of “How to Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K. Dick’s Robotic Resurrection” and I’ve been puzzling over some questions it raises for writers.
First, the facts. The book “explains how a team of researchers at the Univ. of Memphis collaborated in...
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Jun.20.2012
(Originally posted at Huffington Post Entertainment.)
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but that is completely wrong. Adaptation is the sincerest form of flattery.
One of the great joys of my career was getting to know Ray Bradbury, who recently passed away at 91. The first time...
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Jun.06.2012
The greatest scribe of 20th Century science fiction is dead. Ray Douglas Bradbury was the most prolific author of the genre since Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. However, his influence into the field of speculative fiction was actually Edgar Allan Poe and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Much of...
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Jun.06.2012
I was so pleased to see this week's RED LETTER reminding us all that our favorite famous writes often have works that while not as well known as their smash hits, are often just a good as those works if not better.
For my contribution, I would like to bring up the massively gifted GREG BEAR who is...
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Jun.06.2012
Ray Bradbury is gone. Wow, it's hard to conceive of the world without him.
He was the first writer I can recall loving, the first whose works I sought out. I'm feeling pretty emotional today but I've managed to cobble together a bit of an appreciation for the Master, you'll find it over at my...
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May.25.2012
The desire to merge, to unify, to become one with another being has always been a part of the passionate human existence. More than just an insurance of the continuance of the species, our deepest connections reach beyond the mere physical, into the depths of the mind, psyche, and spirit. Union -...
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Apr.21.2012
Episode description copy, written for Paramount Studios by Harrison Solow (under a different name):
"A familiar face, captured in its final days both as a species and as an individual, the Salt Monster, also known as the Salt Vampire, is the last of its kind. Haunting, lonely and fatal, the doomed...
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Apr.21.2012
Eugene Myers is the author of the young adult science fiction novel “Fair Coin”, in fact it’s Eugene’s debut novel though he published numerous fiction and fantasy short stories in a number of magazines and anthologies such as Sybil’s Garage, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Sporty Spec:...
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Apr.19.2012
How could I let the occasion pass without offering some movie recommendations?
The following films range in style from poetic (Koyaanisqatsi), to frightening (An Inconvenient Truth). Whether based on fact or fiction, all are cautionary tales.
Them! (1954) Dir. Gordon Douglas Nuclear...
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Apr.13.2012
By the time you see this, I'll already be on my way to Canada for Ad Astra, one of my favorite conventions. Details are on my Schedule page; if you're in the Toronto area, please stop by and check it out!
Greg
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