Originally posted on Barb Taub:
So you want to write Science Fiction? Isaac Asimov wrote an essay for Modern Science Fiction (1953, ed. Reginald Bretnor) in which he claimed there were essentially three types of science fiction—gadget, adventure, and social science fiction. Let’s say, for example, you are applying these categories to a post-apocalyptic parent explaining the…
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Smorgasbord Cafe and Bookstore – New Author on the Shelves – #SciFi #SpaceOpera – Inside Out by Thorne Moore
Delighted to be featuring on the Smorgasbord book cafe today
Rosie’s #Bookreview Team #RBRT #Scifi Inside Out by @ThorneMoore
Very grateful to Alex on Rosie Amber’s review team, for this review of Inside Out.
And On The Seventh Day I Published: the joys of world-building
All fiction writers have a God complex – they want to be a creator. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, in which a scientist usurped the role of God by creating a sentient creature. It was intended to be regarded as a shocking blasphemy that could only lead to disaster, but it’s something that fiction writers haveContinue reading “And On The Seventh Day I Published: the joys of world-building”
My Review of Inside Out by Thorne Moore #SciFi #TripofaLifetime #MakeMillions
Many thanks to Judith Barrow for this brilliant review of my new book, Inside Out, born today.
INSIDE OUT: a journey to the centre of the mind.
My new book, Inside Out, published May 12th, is a book about a journey. It wouldn’t be the first, because journeys have always been more than a means of getting from A to B. Hogwart wizards can apparate, transporting instantly to another place, but that hardly counts. A proper journey is a voyage of discoveryContinue reading “INSIDE OUT: a journey to the centre of the mind.”
BOOKCASE – Letters from the Dead by Sam Hurcom
Originally posted on Crime Cymru:
In this series, we invite our Crime Cymru authors to showcase an excerpt from one of their books. This week, Sam Hurcom brings us a tense scene from the hugely atmospheric second novel in his Thomas Bexley gothic crime series. Letters from the Dead is the second novel featuring Thomas…
Style, Design and the Future
How futuristic does futuristic science fiction have to be? How do we imagine our descendants will be living, five or six generations down the line? Judging from science fiction on films and TV, we do appear to be convinced of one thing – that doors will be a very odd shape in the future. Personally,Continue reading “Style, Design and the Future”
Science and Fiction and Both
There are two sorts of extreme in Science Fiction. Some focus on the science, concentrating on what might feasibly happen within proven possibilities. Others concentrate on the fiction, taking it all closer to sheer fantasy and regarding the laws of physics as a minor irritation to be brushed over. I am somewhere in between. IContinue reading “Science and Fiction and Both”
Genres Within Genres
I write fiction. When I wrote A Time For Silence, my first book to be published, I saw it primarily as a contemporary novel with historical overtones, but I was told that it would be classified as a crime novel. Which is fair enough; there are crimes in it. But in my head I wasContinue reading “Genres Within Genres”
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