Stoke Your Fears to Find a Great SF Premise
In an article for Writer's Digest, A.G. Riddle shares tips for finding a great premise for your science fiction novel. "Ideas are what motivate...
Worldbuilding in Hard and Soft SF
In a post on Writers in the Storm, Joseph Lallo tackles worldbuilding for science fiction novels, which can be a lot of fun while...
Noir and SF: A Complimentary Pairing
Classic examples of SF/mystery mashups include Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and its resulting film adaptation, Bladerunner, as well as...
10 Films That Teach You Everything You Need to Know About...
In a post on The Script Lab, David Young picks out 10 films he believes will teach you everything you need to know about...
The Gothic Intersection Between Crime and SF
In a post on CrimeReads, Eddie Robson examines the intersection between science fiction, crime, and gothic novels. In fact, Robson says that both SF...
Has Climate Writing Dried Up?
In an essay for Lit Hub, science and environment writer Heather Houser suggests that fiction on environmental and climate themes is becoming moribund. She...
The Many Ways Fictional Aliens Explore Human Topics
In a post on Lit Hub, Mike Chen explores the various ways writers use aliens to talk about all-too-human concepts. "In most cases, the aliens...
Are Plutocrats Actually Democratizing Space?
In their latest episode, the Writing Excuses hosts talk with chemist, USAF Colonel, and NASA Astronaut Cady Coleman about actual travel to actual space,...
“Everything Everywhere” Gets the Multiverse Right
In an article for ScreenCraft, Britton Perelman examines how the film Everything Everywhere All at Once gets the multiverse right. "The concept of the multiverse...
When Science and Fiction Are More Than Science Fiction
In their latest episode, the Writing Excuses hosts talk about how the fictional side of science and the scientific side of fiction combine in...
