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Simian Morph Eclipse Phase
Tuesday 21 May, 2013

Transgenderism in Sci-Fi

A discussion of gender issues and transgenderism in science fiction by author Cassidy Frazee


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Tuesday 07 May, 2013

Powered Armor: Mecha

Where’s my giant city-crushing anthropomorphic walking tank?


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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.


Terra
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?


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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.


featured story
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.


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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.


Eclipse Phase
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.


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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.


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.


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.


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Saturday 23 February, 2013

THE SCHICKLGRUBER INHERITANCE

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


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.


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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.”


Russian bio-dome in Siberia
Sunday 13 January, 2013

Cities of the Future: The Domed City of Mir

Russian construction firm AB Elise has proposed turning one of the world’s largest opencast mines into a futuristic domed city.


SciFi Ideas
Wednesday 09 January, 2013

News: Looking Back on 2012

Over the last twelve months, we’ve shared an incredible number of science fiction ideas, and many of them were thought up by you, the readers.


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Tuesday 01 January, 2013

Cities of the Future: Floating Cities

Tower blocks needn’t be the only answer; it is possible that as well as expanding our settlements into the sky, we might also expand outward onto the oceans. This could be done by constructing enormous floating cities.


skylon white
Tuesday 11 December, 2012

Skylon: What is it, and why is it so cool?

As a successor to the Space Shuttle, the Skylon spaceplane has been envisioned as a 100% reusable launch vehicle. It will be safer, more efficient and cheaper to fly.


The Really Geeky Sci-Fi Quiz Book
Friday 07 December, 2012

The Really Geeky Sci-Fi Quiz Book

The Really Geeky Sci-Fi Quiz Book contains over 750 of the geekiest quiz questions you’re likely to find anywhere.


WoW Steve Kelly
Monday 19 November, 2012

The War of the Worlds: Updated and Reverse Engineered

A comedic take on H.G. Wells’ classic Martian invasion story by author (and friend of SciFi Ideas) Steve Kelly.


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