Tuesday 07 May, 2013
Powered Armor: Mecha
Where’s my giant city-crushing anthropomorphic walking tank?
Monday 22 April, 2013
Kepler Discovers Twin Water Worlds
While I was working on creating two fictional planets, NASA was busy discovering their real-life counterparts.
Tuesday 16 April, 2013
Should Sci-Fi Writers Stop Using the Name Terra?
Is the name “Terra” an enormous cliche, and when is it okay for science fiction writers to use it?
Monday 15 April, 2013
Powered Armor: Man Power
Since Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, power armor has become sort of the “go to” future weapon that can be fun for the whole family. It’s shown up in literature, comics, movies and video games.
Monday 08 April, 2013
Invasion of the Body Renters
Alfonso Posadas shares his idea for a slightly different take on the invasion of alien parasites trope.
Wednesday 03 April, 2013
Story Idea: The Green Scourge
Humanity fails to prevent a medium-sized asteroid collision and suffers unforeseen consequences in this story idea by Jay Brown.
Sunday 31 March, 2013
Featured Story: See You on Rovana
I always try my hardest to cling on to those last few words, that last moment of memory, just to make sure that nothing was missing when I emerged on the other side of the gate. Not that I’d remember if it were.
Thursday 28 March, 2013
SciFi Weapons: Sidearms
Raymond Frazee discusses phasers, laser pistols, and why it’s never safe to shoot a gun aboard a spaceship.
Monday 25 March, 2013
Review: Eclipse Phase RPG
This game is the cyberpunk concept flipped on its head and cranked to eleven. In the old cyberpunk world you only had to worry about being killed once, in the world of Eclipse Phase you can be killed dozens of times before the first adventure is over.
Friday 22 March, 2013
Review: Diaspora Tabletop RPG
Diaspora is a fantastic game. It dares go places that others don’t. It has the gritty feel of a trip to the outlands, the sort of retro space feel that harkens back to 50’s B-movies.