Alas, Squiders, today we come to the end of our scifi trope series, and we end with alternate universes, which are a personal favorite of mine (which seems to be a trend). WordPress handily keeps track of blog posts I’ve
Fun Scifi Tropes: Time Travel
Time travel! My other trope-y love. I have been known to pick up media based solely on the fact that they included time travel even if all other signs pointed to the whole idea being terrible. But there’s so many
Fun Scifi Tropes: Faster-than-Light Travel
Oh, squiders. I love Faster-than-Light (FTL) travel. I love it a lot. It opens up the universe for exploration, gives us the chance to meet new species every week and touch down on a new planet. Of course, it also
Fun Scifi Tropes: Aliens (and Their Invasions)
Good morning, squiders! I hope your Thursday finds you well. Today we’ll be looking at aliens. Aliens come in a number of different flavors. You have your friendly aliens like E.T. You have your invading aliens ala Independence Day. You
Fun Scifi Tropes: Robots
Hey, guys! We’re doing this today rather than Thursday because we’ve got our Winterking discussion then. (Are you guys reading that with me? At first I thought it was better but we seem to be delving back into familiar confusion as we
Fun Scifi Tropes: Superpowers
Hey gang! Here’s the first of the tropes post I was talking about last week! A trope, according to Merriam-Webster, is “a common or overused theme or device.” (Also “a word or expression used in a figurative sense” such as
Language Barriers in Speculative Fiction
Hey hey, so apparently I was going to write this post two years ago, got as far as “WOO” and never went back to it. Good job on focusing, me. Language barriers are something common that you find in science
Captain Hawkins by H. Peter Alesso
Happy Friday, Squiders! Today it’s my pleasure to introduce Captain Hawkins by H. Peter Alesso. Here’s the blurb: Jamie Hawkins was living on an obscure planet in the twenty third-century when on one fateful night—his life changed forever. His heroic effort
Tie-in Fiction Friday: Star Trek #3 The Klingon Gambit
My mother recently moved out of my childhood home to move in with my grandmother, which means I had to go through the stuff I accumulated throughout the first portion of my life and then abandoned when I went out
Out Today: To Rule the Stars
Happy Tuesday, Squiders! It’s my pleasure today to announce the release of To Rule the Stars, an anthology of space princess stories. Who says fantasy should get all the princesses? Here’s the blurb: Meet the princesses. A trained diplomat, kidnapped
