Category: scifi
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13.8 billion years ago, at the onset of the Bing-Bang, primordial micro black holes the size of the period at the end of this sentence, may have formed. Assuming that is true, then they are like cosmic bullets boring a hole through the fabric of time, passing through anything and everything in their path. It’s a game…
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The never-before seen image shows a microscopic metal globe spewing out biological material feared to be an infectious agent. As a writer of near SciFi, it’s always a great feeling to have written a work and then see a related article sometime after publication. This is what I had in mind when writing, November…
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What a perfect title for a Sci-fi… “The Great Filter” On a research note, this topic is what drives us to explore. Has any species of the universe ever punched a hole through The Great Filter? Is the Great Filter a stopgap for us… for any species preventing us/them from infecting the cosmos? I recently…
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Whenever a technology moves too quickly, it frightens people, as we are seeing with drones and the scramble to promote/limit/impede their commercial use. Unfortunately, some Luddites behind the laws might not see the positive future. About a month ago, I had read a very sad post about the death of a 13-year-old girl involving a pair of Virginia Tech…
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This was a two wheel Gyro car. A 1954 Ford Gyron, dreamed up by futurist Sydney Mead, who later went on to work with major studios on such films as: as Star Trek: The Motion Picture, followed by Blade Runner, Tron, 2010, Short Circuit, Aliens, Timecop, Johnny Mnemonic and Mission: Impossible III. (wiki) I…
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I was chill’n at one of my favorite places tucked away in Port Salerno, FL called the Grove Dock Bar & Cafe. In fact, this exact longitude and latitude was the inspiration for the sequel to my upcoming sci-fi (Silversides) and where Chapter one starts in the year 2026. This place is a BYOF (bring your own Food)… You provide…
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I read a post on NPR about hard science fiction, which hinted why it migh be on the rise: No Warp Drives, No Transporters: Science Fiction Authors Get Real The ecoBbiologist in me wanted to identify the root cause (which the article did not delve into), so I thought about it … for a day… then following the…
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Chapter One – Arrival (Draft) Silversides / David Nadas Chapter One: Gliese 581 Solar System – 2132 Far below the rolling swell of the Monterey Bay where the endless trawl of current hooks along the ocean floor, a giant kelp began to lose its grip on the weakened shale; each surge tearing away the finger-like tendrils, each…
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Watching a launch is a thing of beauty. It is an assault on our eyes, for there is no other color like it. It is an assault on our ears hearing the successive snare of explosions like someone is beating on our chest in time to our own heartbeat. And when that fireball rises up,…
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First, there are no spoilers here, so read on. I finally got around to watching some sci-fi flicks that were on my watch list. The Frame: This could have been made into a series. I soaked up the characters, played by Tiffany Maulem & David Carranza and felt their every emotion. What a great twisted version…
David Nadas 