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Ray Bradbury Gives Writing Advice

by storiesbywilliams on July 16, 2012 in Authors, Sci-Fi and tagged basho matsuo, j michael straczynski, novels, Ray Bradbury, rip ray bradbury, Sci-Fi, science fiction, short-stories, that's right I read a poem. try not to faint, writing tips

I recently came across this article, which seems to have been one of many I found when researching the life and works of sci-fi great Ray Bradbury. The source is Open Culture, an online magazine dealing with cultural and educational media. And like many other publications, they chose to honor the passing of Bradbury by […]

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Cool Ships!

by storiesbywilliams on April 29, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged Alien, aliens, b5 crusade, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, book, building better worlds, cache weapons, captain sheridan, cat, chewi, cheyenne dropship, cloaking device, colonial marines, commander adama, companion, conestoga-class, corellia, corellian ships, cylons, deep space nine, defiant-class, delenn, drakh, dropship, firefly, firefly-class, han solo, hegazi, hell-class weapons, hoben washburne, ilia volovya, inara serra, interstellar alliance, j michael straczynski, jabba the hutt, jayne cobb, kaylee, kessel, kessel run, lighthugger, lister, malcolm reynolds, melding plague, millennium falcon, mimbari, phasers, president roselyn, quantum torpedoes, red dwarf, religious caste, revelation space, rimmer, river tam, romulans, sajaki, secret compartments, serenity, shepherd book, simon tam, spice, star trek ds9, Star Trek TNG, the alliance, the borg, the defiant, the dominion, the empire, the excalibur, the galactica, the pegasus, the rangers, the sao paolo, the twelve colonies, the valiant, the victory, the white star, ultranauts, ultras, uss nostromo, uss sulaco, wash, Weyland Yutani, white star destroyers, white star fleet, xenomorphs, zoe, zoe washburne

God, what an obvious extension of the whole conceptual sci-fi thing, I can’t believe I didn’t think of it sooner! After all, what is a sci-fi franchise without some cool spacefaring vessels? Sometimes, these come in the form of exploratory ships that chart the unknown regions of the galaxy. Sometimes they are battleships which kick […]

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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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