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An Ontological Breakthrough

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I can’t help it, I agonise over the meanings of things. I’m a discriminator; a differentiator. I like to categorise.

Take “science fiction” (oh stop groaning, you went to the trouble of clicking the link, you might as well listen to what I have to say). It’s a term that arose in the mists [...]

What Are The Ingredients For Great Science Fiction?

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I’ve just been reading a blog post by Mike Brotherton which presents (yet another) definition of science fiction. This is Mike’s suggestion:

“Science fiction is a kind of story in which science or technology plays a central role, both in terms of plot and theme, and the science or technology elements are beyond our [...]

Revealing My Obsessions

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I ran the complete set of posts from this blog through the Wordle program. Wordle calculates word frequencies, translates them to physical sizes, and uses this information to lay out the most frequent words in interesting ways. The image below, therefore, shows you just what I talk about most in this blog. If you [...]

A Sci-Fi Writer’s Manifesto: Detail #5

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Finally, part 5 of  my sci-fi writer’s manifesto: five simple statements intended to guide my writing. This is the full set.

Write only about what is real, or about what can reasonably be foreseen based on what is real. Be honest about what is real and what is not real. Do not write if [...]

A Sci-Fi Writer’s Manifesto: Detail #4

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And here is part 4 of  my sci-fi writer’s manifesto: five simple statements intended to guide my writing. This is the full set.

Write only about what is real, or about what can reasonably be foreseen based on what is real. Be honest about what is real and what is not real. Do not [...]

A Sci-Fi Writer’s Manifesto: Detail #3

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Over the past two days, I have published the first two parts of  my sci-fi writer’s manifesto: five simple statements intended to guide my writing. This is the full set.

Write only about what is real, or about what can reasonably be foreseen based on what is real. Be honest about what is real [...]

A Sci-Fi Writer’s Manifesto: Detail #2

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Yesterday, I published the first expansion on my sci-fi writer’s manifesto: five simple statements intended to guide my writing. This is the full set.

Write only about what is real, or about what can reasonably be foreseen based on what is real. Be honest about what is real and what is not real. Do [...]

A Sci-Fi Writer’s Manifesto: Detail #1

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A while ago, I wrote my sci-fi writer’s manifesto: five simple statements intended to guide my writing. In case you missed them, here they are.

Write only about what is real, or about what can reasonably be foreseen based on what is real. Be honest about what is real and what is not real. [...]

A Sci-Fi Writer’s Manifesto

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My spirit guide

Recently, a friend of mine urged writers to develop an ‘Artistic Life Purpose Statement’ and boldly offered her own. Now, I’ve done ‘the vision thing’ quite a lot in my time. I was once a manager in IBM and I’ve been a business consultant. Most ‘vision statements’ are a complete [...]