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Of Faster-Than-Light Travel

by storiesbywilliams on July 10, 2012 in Books, Cool Stuff, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged albert einstein, alcubierre drive, Amazing Stories, ark, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Colleen Doran, controlled singularity, doctor who, Dune, einstein's theory of relativity, Eye of Harmony, faster than light, faster-than-light travel, foldspace, foundation universe, FTL, guild navigator, hard sci-fi, heart of gold, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, holtzman drive, holtzman engines, homeworld, hyperdrive, hyperspace, hyperspatial drive, i robot, Ian Douglas, infinite probability drive, infinite probably drive, Islands of Space, ixian machine, ixian navigator machine, John Campbell, jump drive, jump gates, Light, M. John Harrison, Macross/Robotech, Mass Effect, microsoft, Miguel Alcubierre, Orbiter, spice, spice mutant, Star Carrier, Star Trek, Star Wars, starcraft, stargate, starship troopers, Stephen Baxter, subspace, tardis, technical error, time-space dilation, warp, warp bubble, warp drive, warp field, Warren Ellis, wing commander, wing commander privateer, wormhole

It’s a popular concept, the fictional technology that could help us break that tricky light barrier. And it’s not hard to see why. The universe is a really, really, REALLY big place! And if we ever want to begin exploring and colonizing our tiny corner of it – and not have to deal with all […]

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The O’Neill Cylinder

by storiesbywilliams on July 9, 2012 in Cool Stuff, Grim5next, Sci-Fi and tagged artificial gravity, Babylon 5, freeside, gerard k. o'neill, graviton, island three habitat, Neuromancer, o'neill cylinder, rendevouz with rama, rotating sections in space ships, space ships, space stations, villa straylight

Welcome all to another post that explores the world of conceptual sci-fi! In keeping with the trend of explaining concepts which helped inspire my group’s most recent project, the space colonization story Yuva, I’ve decided to talk about what is known as an O’Neill Cylinder. Named in honor of Gerard K. O’Neill in his 1976 […]

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Happy Canada Day!

by storiesbywilliams on July 1, 2012 in Movies, Reviews, Sci-Fi and tagged Alliance, Babylon 5, biopod, bioport, Canada Day, Canada's 145th birthday, canadian sci-fi, ConSec, cybernetic implants, cyberpunk, cyberspace, david cronenberg, dina meyer, Dolph Lundgren, don mckellar, ephemerol, existenz, Henry Rollins, Ice-T, Inception, jennifer jason leigh, johnny mnemonic, jude law, keannu reaves, last night, Lo-Tek, michael ironside, molly millions, NAS, NEB, nervous attenuation syndrome, Neuromancer, peter weller, revok, robocop, sally shears, sandra oh, sarah polley, scanners, science ficiton, science fiction movies, Screamers, sirius 6b, Takeshi Kitano, the matrix, the sprawl trilogy, Udo Kier, vale, wayne's world, wetwire implants, William Gibson, yakuza

Hello and welcome to my Canada Day post! As it is the True North’s national birthday – commemorating the day when the original provinces came together and agreed on Confederation, the first act of national building and quasi-declaration of independence – I thought it fitting that I do a post honoring Canada’s contribution to the […]

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Worlds of Babylon 5

by storiesbywilliams on June 26, 2012 in Sci-Fi, Series, Worlds Of and tagged Babylon 5, catherin sakai, centauri prime, crusade, delenn, draal, drakh, drakh plague, drazi homeworld, earth alliance, earth force, earthdome, epsilon 3, epsilon eridani, g'kar, ivanova, londo mollari, Marcus, mr morden, narn homeworld, psi corps, quadrant 37, shadow homeworld, sheridan, sigma 957, the earth-mimbari war, the excalibur, the great machine, the great war, the second shadow war, the shadow war, the walkers, valen, vir cotto, vorlon homeworld, white star, white star fleet, z'hadum, zhabar

This would be the fourth installment of my “Worlds Of” series, this time in honor of my favorite sci-fi show of all time. Like the show itself, the worlds that were featured here were richly detailed, multi-layered, and part of an intricate and cohesive universe. Though the show only lasted five seasons and the spin-off […]

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Sci-Fi Drugs

by storiesbywilliams on June 4, 2012 in Books, Cool Stuff, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged a gram is better than a damn, A Scanner Darkly, Babylon 5, bene gesserit, bester, black thunder, blue velvet, Brave New World, cain, can-d, cocaine, dancer, drug counter-culture, drug culture, drug subculture, Dune, dust, enki virus, g'kar, guild navigators, keannu reaves, L. Bob Rife, layouts, leto II, londo mollari, mdma, minority report, neuroin, new-path, nuke, OCP, old detroit, Paul Atreides, pcp, perky pat, Philip k dick, PKD, precognitives, PreCrime, prescients, psi cops, psi corps, red ramrod, robert downey jr, robocain, robocop, robocop 2, S-D, sharing, slow death, snow crash, Soma, spice, substance d, sumerian tablet, the bridge trilogy, the guild, the spice melange, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, tom cruise, tower of babel myth, war on drugs, white noise, William Gibson, winona ryder, woody harrelson, World State

The other night, I had one of those moments. It was a moment where I found myself thinking about a cool concept and realized that it would make a damn fine post. It’s also one that interests me quite a bit and has even influenced my own writing. So as quickly as I could, I […]

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Cool Ships (volume VII)

by storiesbywilliams on May 14, 2012 in Cool Ships, Series, Video games and tagged admiral ackbar, admiral cain, Babylon 5, battlestar, Battlestar Galactica, bentusi, blockade runner, bsg stealth ship, captain kirk, captain lee adama, centauri battlecruiser, chapterhouse dune, colonial fleet, commander adama, corellian corvette, cr90, cylon fleet, Dune, earth alliance, earth-minbari war, g'quon class heavy cruiser, genesis project, harbor ship of bentus, heretics of dune, homeworld, ixian no-ship, khan noonien singh, mon calamari cruiser, mon remonda, mothership, narn cruiser, narn-centauri war, no-chamber, president laura roselyn, primus-class battlecruiser, princess leia, raptor, resurrection ship, Star Trek, Star Wars, star wars episode IV a new hope, star wars universe, starbuck, super star destroyer, the blackbird, the laura, the pegasus, the twelve colonies, thrawn crisis, uss enterprise, uss reliant, vicount-class star defender, viper mark VII

Welcome to volume 7. Nuff chit chat, let’s get started! The Blackbird: Starting this list off right is the stealth ship from the updated Galactica universe. Christened the Laura, in honor of President Roslyn, this ship was the brainchild of engineer Galen Tyrol and his deck hands, who decided to build a new fighter from […]

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Cool Ships (volume V)

by storiesbywilliams on May 11, 2012 in Books, Cool Ships, Movies, Series and tagged Alien, arrakis, artificial hand, Babylon 5, baron harkonnen, Battlestar Galactica, colonial raptor, cool ships volume 5, cylon virus, cylon war, darth vader, delenn, duke leto atreides, Dune, Dune universe, earth alliance, earth force, earth-minbari war, ellen ripley, fly-by-wire, foldspace, freespace 2, FTL, guild heighliner, gunstar, heart of gold, holtzman engines, hospital ship, improbability drive, jones the cat, luke skywalker, LV-426, medical frigate, minbari cruiser, minbari federation, navigator, nebula-b frigate, nostromo, Paul Atreides, quantum theory, rebel alliance, sathanas juggernaut, shadow war, sharlin-class cruiser, sheridan, spice tanks, Star Wars, the black hole, the colussus, the cygnus, the deimos, the last starfighter, the nostromo, the shivans, Weyland Yutani, wireless, xenomorph, zaphod beeblebrox

Back again! More ships, more designs, more franchises too. Like I said last time, there’s just no limit when you get right down to it. And in the course of doing my homework on cool sci-fi concepts, I’ve found that there are hundreds of franchises out there that I’ve never even heard of before. Of […]

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Cool Ships (volume IV)

by storiesbywilliams on May 6, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged a call to arms, alpha quadrant, ancients city ship, Arthur C Clarke, Babylon 5, babylon 5 crusade, Battlestar Galactica, captain janeway, city ship, cylons, deimos class corvette, delenn, distant origins, dominion war, drakh, drakh raider, freespace, freespace II, galactica, gamma quadrant, generational ship, jem'hadar, kilrathi empire, londo, pegasus, rama, rendezvous with rama, romulan, romulan empire, romulan warbird, Sci-Fi, sci-fi geeks, space above and beyond, Star Trek, star trek deep space 9, star trek ds9, star trek voyager, stargate, stargate atlantis, terran confederation, terran-vasudan alliance, the colossus, the enterprise, tiger's claw, twelve colonies, uss defiant, uss saratoga, viper mark II, viper mark VII, voth, voth city ship, white star, wing commander

Back with a fourth installment. As usual, I am indebted to people for making suggestions and offering critiques. Funny thing, these lists seem to be getting longer and more diverse the longer this series goes. But I guess that tells you something about the world of sci-fi. No shortage of material, and kind of like […]

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Even More Cool Ships!

by storiesbywilliams on May 3, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Series and tagged Alien, aliens, Babylon 5, buck rogers in the 25th century, chigs, colonial marines, death star, draconia 1, dropship, eclipse, emperor palpatine, excalibur, executor, firefly, force storm, hovership, leia organa, luke skywalker, nebuchadnezzar, nostromo, rebel alliance, rogue squadron, SA-43 Hammerhead, Sci-Fi, science fiction, sentinels, serenity, space above and beyond, spaceball one, spaceballs, Star Wars, starfury, sulaco, super star destroyer, superlaser, terror weapon, the empire, The Force, the matrix, thunderbolt, tractor beam, turbolaser, UD4L Cheyenne Dropship, white star, white star destroyer, x-wing

Dang it, this is fast growing into a theme of its own, outgrowing the whole “conceptual” thing by leaps and bounds! But there are always more contenders, and people have been nice enough to leave suggestions with me. So the list must go on, taking into account more spaceships, aircraft an assorted vehicles that come […]

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More Cool Ships

by storiesbywilliams on April 30, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged a-wings, admiral ackbar, Alien, aliens, alliance cruiser, b-wings, Babylon 5, battle of endor, battle of yavin, biometric ship, borg cube, borg sphere, captain sheridan, chig cruiser, chig fighter, chigs, commander ivanova, cool ships, cyborg, darth vader, delenn, divine order, earth alliance, earth alliance destroyer, firefly, FTL, great war, his divine shadow, home one, hyperdrive, hyperspace, kai, lexx, lt. warren keffer, mon calamari cruiser, multi-vector assault mode, narn heavy cruiser, nostromo, omega-class destroyer, organic ship, organic technology, prometheus-clas ship, ragesh 3, saucer section, Sci-Fi, science fiction, second death star, serenity, shadow fighters, shadow vessel, shadow war, space above and beyond, stanley tweedle, star destroyer, Star Trek, star trek ds9, Star Trek TNG, star trek voyager, star trek: first contact, Star Wars, stargate, stargate:atlantis, super star destroyer, the daedalus, the death star, the executor, tie bomber, tie fighter, uss defiant, uss enterprise D, x-wings, y-wings, zev bellringer

And I’m back with more examples, in part because people had some suggestions but also because I found the last list lacking. I mean, you can’t suggest a concept as big and as awesome as cool science fiction ships and only provide a handful of examples. It’s just not decent! So here’s installment number two […]

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