This blog (wikifiction.blogspot.com) is a way for me to reflect on my interests in science fiction. When I started this blog, I was deep into using
wiki software for
collaborative fiction writing. I'm always happy to find a new
collaborator for fiction writing projects. 😃 Over the years I've increasingly become intrigued by the many ways to use
blogs,
hypertext,
images, artificial intelligence tools and
videos as tools for story telling.
X. I began this blog on April 4, 2009 (
first post), not very long after I started experimenting with
Twitter. Most of my tweets contained links to either this blog,
my blog at Novelas or my
Exodemic blog. However, I stopped using Twitter in 2023. The are also links from this blog to my other fiction writing blogs: the
Encyclopedia of Future Science,
Dead Widowers,
Foundations of Eternity and
First Reality.
About the header image. The
banner image at the top of the pages in this blog is a scene from the
Exodemic Fictional Universe. Many thanks to
Miranda Hedman (www.mirish.deviantart.com) for the DeviantArt stock photograph "
Black Cat 9 - stock" that I used to create the blue "
sedronite" who is right in the middle of the banner.
Also: that's right,
Carl Sagan is a character in the
Exode Saga.
Before 2016 there was an earlier banner with a scene from the story
Exode. Discussion of both that header and the even older header is
here. The oldest header image was from a
video teaser for "
The Nanoepitaxy of Susanne Marie". Parts of those older banner images (like this
part) were made using
DAZ Studio.
My favorite type of fiction is
science fiction, so this blog contains many posts about collaborative science fiction writing. I use this blog as a diary where I can write about all of my Sci Fi interests, so there are also posts about published Sci Fi stories from various authors and even some commentary on Sci Fi films (see my recurring posts that concern my
Search for
Interesting
Hollywood
Aliens;
SIHA).
Warning: when discussing these published stories and films I mention what some folks might view as "spoilers".
This blog functions as a workshop for development of
my own science fiction stories. However, once in a while, some of my blog posts become more popular that usual. There is an old list of the ten most read blog posts
here. I usually have an end-of-the-year blog post that describes the popular posts for that year (
example).
Devices optimization. I optimize my blog pages for a wide computer screen. If you are trapped in a small screen, you may be annoyed by how the wikifiction blog pages appear.
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error with nanites
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Spelling, etc. That's right, I can't spell. If you see a spelling error or some other problem, please
let me know. Errors made with
nanites may not be correctable.
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New for 2021
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New in 2021. I put this blog behind the "sensitive content" barrier after again reading the Blogger Content Policy page which includes this: "If your blog contains adult content, please mark it as 'adult' in your Blogger settings." This webpage seems to be among the most detailed ones I can find explaining the types of content that might be frowned upon by Google.
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The horror of the a stray nipple. (source)
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So be warned, you might see some stray nipples here at this blog. I don't believe that human (or alien) sexual behavior should be excluded from science fiction stories. In fact, many of my science fiction stories explicitly explore a link between telepathy and human sexual behavior, the basic idea being that a society of human telepaths only works when the ability to share thoughts telepathically depends on there being an emotional bond between individuals. The one blog page that I'm tempted to give an "
R" rating is
Dasce's Dead Star, which has some disgusting violence, which is unusual for this blog.
Where
the content of this blog is my original work, the text of this blog is
licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share
Alike 3.0 United States License (< pre-2024). After 2023, I'm using
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
Let me know if you come across any realistic futuristic sci-fi that manages to do a decent job at factoring in the current knowledge of where we are at and what futures are possible. Actually, what would be better than that is to not just focus on what is possible but to focus also on what is likely. That I would find interesting as I have yet to read anything that has done a decent job.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever seen "The Turing Option"? I think it was intended as a reasonable projection of current science into a future when it would become possible to copy human brain patterns into computer circuits.
ReplyDeleteSee Robert Sawyer, Hugo, Campbell, and Nebela award-winning Canadian Science-Fiction author who writes about incredibly realistic near-future scenarios in many of his novels and novellas. He is an aquaintance of mine and spends a large amount of time researching and reading about the cutting edge of current technology in order to accurately portraly realistic futures and in some cases alternate histories (see his Quintaglio and Neanderthal trilogies for examples of realistic alternative histories)...as for his realistic future portrayals of our universe, see: the terminal experiment, flashforward (made into a popular cable tv programme), rollback, mindscan,the WWW trilogy, and most recently, Red Planet Blues...he also takes philosophical, legal, and even religious approaches to other basic themes in science fiction such as alien invasion, time-travel, alien cooperation, and far-future interstellar human colonization...this can be found in his novels: Starplex, Calculating God, Illegal Alien, and End of an Era...i realise you posted these messages four years ago, but perhaps you still read this blog...regardless, i hope this help anyone who reads it..
ReplyDeleteWhat are the "hybrids" in the "Neanderthal Parallax"? http://www.sfwriter.com/exhy.htm
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