Collaborate Disseminate
Geoff Manaugh’s tale about a modern, viral ghost story is being developed by Legendary, with the director of ‘Happy Death Day’ on board. Continue reading A Terraform Story Has Been Optioned for the Big Screen
“In the footage, the ghost’s terrifying expression quickly fades. It seems confused by Frank’s reaction, its black eyes squinting in perplexed disbelief.” Continue reading How to Cyberbully a Ghost Into Leaving Your House
A transaction with a mysterious entity leads to trouble in the award-winning sci-fi author’s upcoming novel. Continue reading Read a Mindbending Excerpt from Ann Leckie’s New Novel ‘Provenance’
A few weeks ago, Amazon’s crack marketing AI decided to recommend a few books for me. That AI must be getting better because instead of the latest special-edition Twilight books, I was greeted with this:
“The asteroid was called the Hand of God when it hit.”
That’s the first sentence of The Bridge, a new Sci-Fi book by Leonard Petracci. If you think that line sucks you in, wait until you read the whole first chapter.
The Bridge is solidly in the generation ship trope. A voyage hundreds or even thousands of years long, with no sleep or stasis …read more
It’s 2100 AD, and hackers and normals live together in mile-long habitats in the Earth-Moon system. The habitat is spun up so that the gravity inside is that of Earth, and for exercise, the normals cycle around on bike paths. But the hackers do their cycling outside, in the vacuum of space.
How so? With ion thrusters, rocketing out xenon gas as the propellant. And the source of power? Ultimately that’s the hackers legs, pedaling away at a drive system that turns two large Wimshurst machines.
Those Wimshurst machines then produce the high voltage needed for the thruster’s ionization as …read more
It’s been 6 years since the hacker’s treat of a book, “The Martian” by Andy Weir, was self-published, and 2 years since the movie came out. We’ve talked about it briefly before, but enough time has passed that we can now write-up the book’s juicier hacks while being careful to not give away any plot spoilers. The book has more hacks than the movie so we’re using the book as the source.
For anyone unfamiliar with the story, Mark Watney is an astronaut who’s left for dead, by himself, on Mars. To survive, he has a habitat designed for six, …read more
How the Highwayman was born. Continue reading Heavenly Lights
It’s not as simple as man versus machine. Continue reading We Need to Tell Better Stories About Our AI Future
Zordon is a giant pin-head toy? Continue reading The New ‘Power Rangers’ Trailer Makes Me Want to Go Back to 1995
Billy Crudup is the captain! No Ripley—but there is someone who looks a lot like her! Continue reading Aliens and Shower Sex Don’t Mix in the ‘Alien: Covenant’ Trailer
