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Tag: science fiction
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Odd Prompts: Riders in the Concrete Jungle
The concrete cowboys were always a sight to behold. Sparks flew from the horseshoes as they trotted four abreast down the avenue. The towering skyscrapers that blocked the sunlight from falling on the riders should have dwarfed them, but somehow they dominated the scene. Crowds pressed up against stanchions, their breath as misty as…
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Free Book
Cheep! Cheep! Ok, ok, it’s free… Cracked! A chicken anthology is a collection of chicken stories unlike anything you have read before. I have a story in it, which involves a swirling vortex of cluckers aboard a space station. It’s also an affectionate nod to my husband, the engineering technician. Go! Get your copy!…
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Odd Prompts: Glass and Grape
This week’s prompt led to a short story, science fiction, and is a play on some science that actually exists, although not yet this mature… Glass and Grape The blackberry note was nice, but the green… Adriana gently spat the wine back out into her waste cup and shook her head faintly, regretfully. Her…
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Guest Post: A Space for Storytellers
Leigh and I did a post swap – you can find my post over at StarshipCat, on maps and fiction. Wander on over and say hi! at least, and enjoy the twin essays (we didn’t talk topics or anything before doing this, which was fun). Also, Leigh has a plethora of stories on the…
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Story Seeds of Science
I am always interested in what’s going on in the world, but I try to look at it through a different lens. One of those lenses is the scientific news, and when I’m looking at it, I’m often looking at it from the point of view of an author. I find it fertile ground…
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Cover Reveal! The Violet Mouse
This story was born of conversations in molecular bio labs, and human relationships, and knowing how much friendship can mean. It’s science fiction, bleeding edge… it’s hard to stay ahead of the science these days. Wildest imagination finds it difficult to stretch past where we are in reality. If I can’t keep ahead of…
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Readers take Note
It’s going to be a busy day here at the Nut House. Sounds of drilling already emanate from the closet, and the dishwasher is singing it’s song in the kitchen. So in lieu of a sensible essay type-post, you get a glimpse into my reading habits of late. Some old, some new… all of…
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Decommissioned
Yesterday was Science Fiction Day, according to the calendar in my lab. In honor of that, I wrote a bit of a story for my blog readers. Happy Science Fiction Day! May the horizons of humanity grow ever larger. “…decommissioning.” The earbud hissed, then cut out. Jack was already rolling out of bed. He’d…
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Sense of Wonder
I’m not a great artist, and I never will be. But sometimes I just have to try and portray what’s in my head… this fractal cried out for a spaceship, an explorer, and a sense of wonder at some alien architecture of a distant place and time.
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Wonder
Into the darkness a crack was growing molten potential of the planet’s heart grown, never hewn, from material composing the crust millenia passes metal crystalline seeds planted grew monstrous a crack, a light, a fierce heat into the planet they named hell came Man who had never yet met his rival in all the…
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Putting the Story in Science
One of the biggest challenges I face as a science fiction writer – and one of the biggest reasons I tend to write Space Opera rather than Hard SF – is staying ahead of the science. As a scientist, most of my work is very industrial. I’m not in research, nothing bleeding-edge is going on…