The truck arrived in its young master’s home in the glory of its packaging. Impatient fingers pulled apart the card-and-cellophane wrapper, and lifted it out
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A generation starship answers the wrong question
The generation starship trope has provided a rich seam for science fiction writers. From Heinlein and Aldiss in the Golden Age of SF, the idea
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Interstellar impossibility
As a boy, I wanted to be on the crew of the USS Enterprise, adventuring among the stars. Now in writing science fiction, I at
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The problems of writing science fiction
Writing science fiction (SF) is hard. Of course, writing anything worthwhile is hard. But in a sense writing SF is twice as hard as writing
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Why write science fiction?
I quite often get this question – if not voiced directly, then via a funny look. Isn’t science fiction (SF), well, a bit narrow, teenage,
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True love
My friend Joey walked into the bar. He attracted two bids, chose one of them, and when the girl revealed herself walked off with her
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