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Tuesday 21 May, 2013
Transgenderism in Sci-Fi
A discussion of gender issues and transgenderism in science fiction by author Cassidy Frazee
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.
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.
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.
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.
Saturday 23 February, 2013
THE SCHICKLGRUBER INHERITANCE
Time has a code, there are rules. You have to look right and left before you reverse.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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