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Boreas
Saturday 16 March, 2013

Planet Profile: Boreas

This FICTIONAL planet has extremely large polar regions. Human habitation is restricted to a thin band of temperate climate around the planet’s equator.


blinky robot
Thursday 14 March, 2013

5 Amazing Robot Videos

If you are looking for a little inspiration for a robot story, these videos should help. Found on Vimeo and YouTube (and created by various artists), these amazing short films are sure to get your creative juices flowing.


Construction robot
Tuesday 05 March, 2013

Story Idea: The Gamification of Ghetto Construction

In the midst of a labor shortage, the building of the ghettos cannot progress quickly enough. To increase production, the construction company turns to a revolutionary idea; they “gamify” the construction project.


Mars
Saturday 02 March, 2013

Extra-planetary Nature Reserves

If you want to colonize a new planet, travelling across the cosmos is only the first hurdle you’ll have to face. You’ll also have to fight government bureaucracy, hippies and eco-warriors, and probably some deadly alien microbes too.


featured story
Saturday 23 February, 2013

THE SCHICKLGRUBER INHERITANCE

Time has a code, there are rules. You have to look right and left before you reverse.


island
Wednesday 13 February, 2013

Story Idea: A Simpler Story Than Lost

The set-up is very much like that of Lost. We begin with a number of plane crash survivors arriving on an island.


sci-fi story ideas
Monday 04 February, 2013

Science Fiction Ideas by Brandon Lampitoc

Six brief sci-fi ideas written by science fiction writer Brandon Lampitoc.


Rod Taylor Time Machine
Monday 28 January, 2013

Traveling Through Time and Not Space

There is a problem with describing H.G. Wells’ time machine as “travelling through time and not space” because the Earth is in constant motion. If the machine remains in the same spot on the laboratory floor, it follows that it must be in motion too.


Morlock
Wednesday 23 January, 2013

Story Idea: A Shipload of Morlocks

Imagine if H.G Wells’ The Time Machine were set aboard a spaceship. That’s how this idea came about. Instead of a machine that travels through time, we have stasis chambers, and instead of a Victorian inventor, we have an interstellar pioneer.


featured story
Friday 18 January, 2013

Featured Story: Fast Food by Steve Kelly

“Good afternoon sir. My name is Joseph. I’m ringing you today about your computer.”