Crafting Sci Fi Stories That Feel Fresh and Exciting
You know that feeling when you pick up a sci-fi book and within the first chapter you’re rolling your eyes because it’s the same old...


















You know that feeling when you pick up a sci-fi book and within the first chapter you’re rolling your eyes because it’s the same old...
The first time someone told me my homemade rocket design was “pure fantasy,” I felt this weird mix of irritation and excitement. Fantasy? Really? I’d...
The first robot I ever built was basically a glorified dustbin with wheels. I was thirteen, using salvaged parts from my dad’s old radio and...
The amber glow of my old CRT monitor still haunts me sometimes. I’m talking about those late nights in 2001, hunched over my desk trying...
Last weekend, I found myself defending *The Man from Earth* to a friend who’d dismissed it as “just people sitting around talking.” That’s exactly what...
The other night, I found myself three episodes deep into a rewatch of *The Expanse* when my neighbour knocked on the door complaining about the...
Last week I was tinkering with a prop blaster from a friend’s garage sale — one of those chunky plastic things that lights up when...
Sometimes I’ll be halfway through rewatching *Westworld* for the third time when my partner walks in and asks, “Aren’t there any other sci-fi shows on...
I was halfway through my third rewatch of Andromeda when it hit me — this wasn’t just another space opera trying to fill the Star...
Last week I found myself explaining to my neighbor why *Dune* isn’t really fantasy, even though it has mystical powers and prophecies. She’d picked up...