Showing posts with label J. D. Robb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label J. D. Robb. Show all posts
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Yesterday's Tomorrow

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Another glance at some futuristic inventions from fiction that have come into real existence, in this case from the cartoon series THE JETSO...
Thursday, December 05, 2024

Welcome to the Future

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Recommended for fans and writers of near-future science fiction: YOU CALL THIS THE FUTURE? THE GREATEST INVENTIONS SCI-FI IMAGINED AND SCIEN...
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Quantity Versus Quality?

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Are quantity and quality incompatible strategies or goals? Not according to the observations in these and other similar essays: Quantity L...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Do Spoilers Really Spoil?

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The latest issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER includes an article exploring whether advance exposure to spoilers actually makes the experience of r...
Thursday, September 09, 2021

More Futuristic Forecasts

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"Prediction is hard, especially about the future." Over the past week, I've been rereading LIFE AND TIME, a 1978 collection of...
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Thursday, June 10, 2021

Plotting and Discovery

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In the June issue of LOCUS, Kameron Hurley writes about how she gets from the beginning of a story to the end: Endings and Beginnings I...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

Sufficiently Advanced Technology

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As we know, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" (Arthur C. Clarke). Conversely, many magical ev...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

Villainous Motives

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Supervillains generally aspire to destroy or conquer a realm, whether a country, a continent, the planet, or even an entire solar system or ...