Showing posts with label Robert A. Heinlein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert A. Heinlein. Show all posts
Thursday, November 11, 2021

Taboos as Time Goes By

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I've been musing over the past couple of days about social taboos, particularly constraints on language. The latter especially affect wr...
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Thursday, September 16, 2021

Advice on "Breaking In" to Publishing

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Cory Doctorow's newest LOCUS column discusses the beginning writer's obsessive quest for tips from pros on how to get started in pub...
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Thursday, September 02, 2021

Failures of Prediction

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To dispose of one point up front, of course we know the purpose of science fiction isn't literally to predict future technology and soci...
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Thursday, July 01, 2021

Talking with Aliens

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When extraterrestrials visit our planet, or vice versa, will we be able to communicate with them? This article discusses the issue of learni...
Thursday, May 06, 2021

Me Tarzan, You Jane

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Recently I've watched several Tarzan movies, including two of the classic Johnny Weissmuller films. It's always annoyed me that this...
Thursday, April 22, 2021

Ownership of Ideas

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Volume 31, Issue 1 of the JOURNAL OF THE FANTASTIC IN THE ARTS includes an article by Dennis Wilson Wise on the literary development of EPVI...
Thursday, March 04, 2021

Visualizing Characters

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Any Superman fans here? I mostly enjoyed the first two episodes of the new series SUPERMAN AND LOIS on the CW network, although for me neith...
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, November 12, 2020

More on AI

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column continues his topic from last month, the sharp divide between the artificial intelligence of contemp...
Thursday, June 04, 2020

The Rules of Writing

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column explores the issue of whether there are any truly unbreakable writing rules: Rules for Writers Y...
Thursday, April 02, 2020

Accessible Writing

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The April 2020 issue of RWR (magazine of the Romance Writers of America) contains an article titled "The Literary Craft of Accessibilit...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Trapped in Virtual Reality

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Numerous works of fiction use the premise of a character stuck inside a game (including a few holodeck episodes in the various STAR TREK ser...
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

The Cycles and the Seasons

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Margaret Carter raised an interesting point in her New Year's post. http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-new-year.html A...
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