“A savage serial killing mad scientist has discovered a way to create the ultimate supercomputer by combining the thought power of 100 brains that he extracts from the smartest people he can kidnap and murder.” That was an idea I posted a couple of days ago. Thankfully science fiction doesn’t have to be anything particularly […]Continue Reading
Kip Snipsnider and the Space Race
The year is 4090 something and the world has gotten a lot bigger. Earth has long been lost to an alien race from the Magnorium Quadrant. Humans have since scattered to various corners of our own galaxy. Kip Snipsnider is a tenth generation intergalactic ship builder who’s family designed and built some of the first […]Continue Reading
Man invents first real lightsaber. Accidentally cuts off his own hand.
Sheboygan Police say a man demonstrating what may be the first real lightsaber to some neighborhood kids accidentally cut his own hand off today. The tragedy happened while inventor and lightsaber creator Jason Snipperstine was reenacting the lightsaber battle between the popular Star Wars character Yoda and the lesser loved Count Dooku. Thankfully the lightsaber […]Continue Reading
5 Science Fiction Writing Prompts
1. A strange static force from the sun wipes out our ability create electricity sending us into a true steam punk time period. 2. A boy discovers a pair of x-ray vision glasses in his grandfather’s basement. 3. A mad scientist creates an anti-gravity device that allows him to disable gravity within a several mile […]Continue Reading
The Neighbor and the Light
The year is 1950 something and little Tommy Snicklewitter suspects something is not quite right with his neighbor Charles. Charles is normally a happy-go-lucky guy. But lately he seems paranoid and distracted. And although Charles lives alone Tommy sleeps with his window open and often hears Charles talking to himself at night. Tommy decides to […]Continue Reading
The Cyborg Virus
The year is 2430 something and Paul Busysnopberry is wondering why he feels so strange today. As he sits in the waiting room of the health clinic he hears a commotion in the back. After a few seconds a woman bursts into the waiting room flailing her arms that seem to be changing in front […]Continue Reading
Cooper and the Virtual Utopia
The year is 3230 something and Cooper Stonesnotter has awoken with a runny nose and he’s a little freaked out by it. He’s never had a runny nose. He’s never had any kind of illness. Neither has anyone he knows. Are his insides melting? How does he stop it? Once at school he has a […]Continue Reading
The People Shrinker
The year is 2530 something and Nathan Thomaswinker has found a most unfortunate new hobby, people shrinking. And of course in order to shrink people you must have people to shrink. As Nathan becomes the most notorious kidnapper of his day, his collection of tiny people grows into a tiny society that he has a […]Continue Reading
Second Life
The year is 2950 something. Population control is strictly enforced based on means and most children are born into wealthy families. As such, much of the world’s poorer population starts to die off. Automation has made labor a thing of the past and the poor are nothing but a drain on resources. With this new […]Continue Reading
After people
The year is 6090 something. The last human passed on earth sometime in the 3050s. Since that time the planet has been discovered and inhabited by transient aliens from a small planet on the outermost limits of our solar system. But one of these aliens, Snarg Snifferbottom, has been experimenting with time travel and is […]Continue Reading