Moving to Mars
<RANT TOPIC=”MOVING TO MARS”> You can’t use Kickstarter to fund a migration to Mars, people. Just… stop it already.
Author: Cliff Hall
How to Create a Page-Turner
The Rule Regardless of premise, prose, or point of view, there is one rule for creating “page-turning” fiction: Pay out action and character development at equal rates.
And The Winner Is…
I never realized it, but I think secretly, I always wanted to utter the words “And the winner is…” to someone other than my cats at salmon-time. Sadly, I was never asked to run a pie-eating contest or to give away an Oscar. I think I would’ve been great at it. Recently though, and quite Read More …
Don’t Worry, We Can Control It
In a recent article in The Guardian, Mustafa Suleyman, progenitor of the Google-acquired AI company DeepMind, is quoted with the audacious statement: “Any talk of a super-intelligent machine vacuuming up all the knowledge in the world and then going about making its own decisions are absurd. There are engineers in this room who know Read More …
Eyes On the Ground
When writers include real places in fiction, they now have more tools than ever for making sure they get the description right. Services like Google Maps & Street View, Bing, Flickr, and countless others make it easy to catch glimpses of your target location from many angles. Without ever having been there, theoretically, you should be able Read More …