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Time Travel In Sci-Fi

by storiesbywilliams on August 30, 2012 in Books, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged a christmas carol, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court:, a rebel in time, a sound of thunder, alternate history, Audrey Niffenegger, bob cratchit, by his bootstraps, camelot, charles dickens, ebeneezer scrooge, eloi and morlocks, enders game, eternals, eternity, foundation, foundation series, guns of the south, h.g. wells, historical fiction, i robot, Isaac Asimov, jacob marley, king arthur, kurt vonnegut, mark twain, meridian, merlin, michael crichton, multiverse theory, outlander, pastwatch: the redemption of christopher columbus, quantum theory, Ray Bradbury, robert a heinlein, robot series, science fiction, sir mordred, slaughterhouse five, the civil war, the end of eternity, the time machine, the time travelers wife, the time traveller, the time travellers wife, time travel, timeline, tiny tim

Hey all. Have I said yet that it’s good to be back? Well, truth be told, it feels like I’ve only really got back into the swing of things in the past few days, and after a two week hiatus to boot. I also noticed that it’s been awhile since I’ve done a conceptual post, […]

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What’s On…

by storiesbywilliams on August 22, 2012 in Books, Sci-Fi and tagged a feast for crows, charles sheffield, ernest cline, foundation series, game of thrones, George RR Martin, hard sci-fi, io9.com, Isaac Asimov, kim stanley robinson, martian chronicles, mona lisa overdrive, Ray Bradbury, reading list, ready player one, red mars, Sci-Fi, second foundation, sprawl trilogy, starfire, We, William Gibson, yevgeny zamyatin

If you’re like me, and suffer from what I assume is a form of literary ADD – where you can’t seem to commit to reading, or writing, one thing at a time – then it helps to take stock once in a while and make a list. At other times, its disconcerting, like whenever I […]

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My Personal Writing Tips, or “How to Avoid Rookie Mistakes”

by storiesbywilliams on July 8, 2012 in Books, Grim5next, Story Time and tagged asimov, Dune, dune prequels and sequels, dune spinoffs, foundation series, Frank Herbert, grim5next, mcdune books, spice as metaphor for oil, spice melange, Star Wars prequels, the galactic empire, the galactic empire and rome, worlds undone, writer's worth, writing, yuva

Proofreading and editing can be such a chore, I tell ya! Thought I’ve never been very good at proofreading and criticizing other peoples work, I find that it is when I am called upon to edit and evaluate their work that I most want to retreat into my shell. I feel selfish when this happens, […]

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The Foundation Series

by storiesbywilliams on July 7, 2012 in Books, Reviews and tagged anacreon, Arthur C Clarke, decline and fall of the roman empire, Dune, edward gibbon, foundataion and empire, foundation, foundation series, foundation trilogy, Frank Herbert, galactic empire, hari seldon, Isaac Asimov, larry niven, middle ages, psychohistory, rome, salvor hardin, science fiction, seldon crisis, seldon's plan, seldon's vault, terminus, the big three, the dark ages, the encyclopediasts, the fall of rome, the foundation, the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire, the mayors, the merchant princes, the psychohistorians, the roman empire, the traders, transmuter, trantor

When it comes to science fiction, few authors have achieved the kind of notoriety and prolific ouput of Isaac Asimov. Amongst the greats of classic sci-fi, he considered one of the “Big Three”, along with arry Niven and Arthur C. Clarke. And when it comes to his many novels, short stories, articles and thoughtful essays, […]

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Of Galactic Empires

by storiesbywilliams on March 9, 2012 in Sci-Fi, Series and tagged arrakis, Babylon 5, babylon 5 movies, battletech, Butlerian Jihad, centauri, custodian, dark ages, decline and fall of the roman empire, Dune, earth alliance, edward gibbon, foundation, foundation series, fremen, galactic empire, gene roddenberry, george lucas, hari seldon, history of the decline and fall of the roman empire, house atreides, house corrino, house harkonnen, in the beginning, interstellar alliance, Isaac Asimov, j michael straczynski, kaitan, league of non-aligned worlds, legends of dune series, mech warriors, mimbari, narn regime, narns, old republic, padisha emperor, Paul Atreides, planetkillers, planets, psychohistory, selusa secundus, Star Trek, Star Trek TNG, Star Wars, the borg, the first ones, the shadows, the spice, thinking machines, united federation of planets, vorlons

Hello again, fellow sci-fi fans! Today, I thought I’d write about something conceptual, something that is intrinsic to so much science fiction and keeps popping up in various forms. It’s something that has appeared in countless serials, novels, tv shows, movies, and RPG’s. I am referring, of course, to the concept of the Galactic Empire, […]

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I, Robot!

by storiesbywilliams on September 27, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged A robot may not injure a human being or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm, a robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law, A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws, AI, alan tudyk, Arthur C Clarke, Babylon 5, bester, big three, big three of sci fi, big three of science fiction, bishop, Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, Chekov, commander data, Det. Spooner, foundation, foundation series, harry seldon, i robot, Isaac Asimov, james cromwell, larry niven, my logic in undeniable, pavel chekov, positronic, positronic brain, robot series, science fiction, science fiction classic, seldon crisis, sonny, Star Trek, Star Trek TNG, Three Laws, US Robotics, USR, Will Smith

Back to the movies! After a brief hiatus, I’ve decided to get back into my sci-fi movie reviews. Truth be told, it was difficult to decide which one I was going to do next. If I were to stick to my review list, and be rigidly chronological, I still had two installments to do for […]

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