ex·tra·ter·res·tri·al/ˌekstrətəˈrestrēəl/adjectiveof or from outside the earth or its atmosphere."searches for extraterrestrial intelligence"nouna hypothetical or fictional being from outer space, especially an intelligent one. ALIEN REALITY TVA NASA engineer discovers a communication wave from an extraterrestrial culture, allowing us to view endless amounts of footage of alien life. Networks are created that offer the ability for […]Continue Reading
5 Science Fiction Story Ideas and Writing Prompts
The Super Drug The year is 2095 and a new drug has exploded in popularity after it temporarily gives users supernatural abilities. Reclaiming Earth In the year 2220 an elite squad of soldiers returns to Earth to reclaim it from aliens who took control a century earlier. The Test Dummy In the year 2400 people […]Continue Reading
Great non-writing resources for Sci-Fi writing inspiration
Everyone gets into a writing lull here and there. Sometimes the best thing you can do is step away and absorb some creativity from other sources. The links below are to visual, audio, and film resources that I use to stimulate my mind and put myself into a zone for writing. I read every day. […]Continue Reading
Several Time Travel Story Ideas
I’ve been working on my novel a lot lately, which is a time travel mystery/thriller. I’m currently about 200 pages in, and I’m satisfied that I’ve avoided a lot of sci-fi tropes so far. It’s a complicated sci-fi subject with a lot of moving parts. If I’m being honest, the 7 ideas below are insanely […]Continue Reading
A new year for sci-fi ideas and a few sci-fi writing starters.
It’s apparently been a year since I made a post to this website. That’s kind of hard to believe. Not that it’s been an unproductive year. I read more this past year. I wrote more. I lived a little more. I spent time in VR. I spent more time in reality. Most of my writing […]Continue Reading
Untitled Robot War Book – Part One
Parker Murphy sat at the terminal in his bedroom, staring at the screen, tapping his desk. The earth shook slightly, as the only light in the windowless room came from his two monitors. On one screen an application was plotting the movements of each android warrior, tank, and air-droid currently waging war on the surface, […]Continue Reading
A Time Travel Story – Part Four
<- Part 3 | Start at the Begining -> Papa’s workshop was a ramshackle one-story two-room shack. At daybreak, Jacob led Farley to check it out. As they approached, junk increasingly littered the road. Spools of wire, scrap metal, various electrical equipment, and miscellaneous do-dads cluttered the ground on both sides of the path. “Your […]Continue Reading
A Time Travel Story – Part Three
<- Part Two | Start at Begining | Part Four -> After a moment the man returned. “Not too shabby for an outhouse. Although, if you’re all alone the privacy seems like overkill.” “Papa said animals go in the woods. And he liked having a dry place to go when it rains. You still haven’t told […]Continue Reading
A Time Travel Story – Part Two
<- Part One | Part Three -> Jacob stood silent, marveling at the sight of another human; his first, other than his brother and father. But this man was young. Much younger than Papa. But only slightly older than Roger. “Listen kid! I know this is crazy, but a rope could really help me out! […]Continue Reading
A Time Travel Story – Part One
This is a story I’ve been working on in a previous post. I took a break the last few days from updating it here and finished it offline. I’m not in edit mode and I’m going to post one part here every day as I work my way through the first real edit. This is […]Continue Reading