This picture sums up a lot about me, except my office is often a lot messier, because I paint, sculpt from clay, sketch, draw, build cardboard spaceship models and who knows what else. My husband once said: “You live in a fantasy world, and it’s a happy place.” Could not agree more. I used to […]
2015
Top 10 Pop Philosophers in 2015? You Will Be Shocked!
Who influences our thinking? Donald Trump? Caitlyn Jenner? J.K. Rowling? Jesus? No, No and No. According to The Telegraph (2015), these 10 spectacular personalities. Apparently, the criteria for the selection was “based on social media followers, number of books published, media appearances, catch phrase creation, amount of viral memes and fan base nicknames”. If you, like myself, […]
Romanian Salt Mine – Ideal Sci Fi Movie Set & Alien Worlds Inspiration For Writers
Turda Salt Mine is one of the most memorable places I’ve been in my life. Everything about it begs to become a sight for a Sci Fi movie shoot. What kind of movie would you make here? First historic records of the mine date back to the year 1075. 112 meters deep, it features an underground […]
Strictly Sci Fi: 2015 Novels
To stargazers and techies, To book grazers and skimmers, To starship and AI dreamers, To E.T. chasers and time travelers, To warp engineers and string theorists, To black hole and Higgs Bozon scholars, To dark matter and dark energy ponderers, And to all of us, awe struck with the science and poetry of the universe, […]
Sci Fi Movie Awards Are Scarce
I researched movie awards in Sci Fi genre and uncovered a significant void. Outside of the Saturn award, there is not much. Plus, the way I see it, Saturn does not have a clear criteria, which movies really belong to the genre. In it’s respective year, Avatar won the crown, and so did the Interstellar. […]
Jalapeno Fiction 2016 Award Debut and Some Thoughts on the Sci Fi Genre Boundaries
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Pepperoni ‘n’ Jalapeno Pizza and Sci Fi
It’s a lovely evening in my Liberia stationed expat family. Ya’l going out for Pizza Hut or Chili’s tonight don’t know how good you’ve got it. If you were like me, for better or worse stuck in a country with one good coffee shop and broken dirt roads everywhere, you’d be making your own pizzas […]