Over-extrapolation and rhetorical scientificity in science fiction
Creating the effect of reality through scientific extrapolation I’ve been thinking lately about the importance many readers and authors place on science in science fiction. It doesn’t bother me that...
View ArticleOn naming a book/film and judging one by its title: the case of the After...
One of the reviews (3 stars) of my space opera trilogy title, ‘After Earth Trilogy (Worlds of the Multiverse),’ was more or less a simple criticism: “The title leads us to a belief that the story would...
View ArticleWhen Amazon changed the tags: high-tech isn’t necessarily hard science fiction
High-tech versus hard SF I’ve written fantasy SF and realist SF. My first novel is extreme fantasy space opera, whereas my second novel is near-future realist SF based on and around Earth. When it came...
View ArticleSelf-centred perspectives and intellectual dishonesty in an Amazon review:...
Writing science fiction with a target reader in mind When I started writing the near-future SF novel ‘Day Zero,’ it was before Amazon Kindle and I had no idea I would be publishing in that ecosystem...
View ArticleMorally complex characterisation: how to alienate moral conservatives from...
I wrote about the first reviewer of the ‘New World Trilogy’ in the last post because she had problems reading at the level of the text and jumped at the chance to blame the text and the author. Never...
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