I am grateful for the Cat. On Thursday, she arranged for her old chum to walk me through basic makeup. A week prior, she came with me for professional acting headshots in three genders. On Friday, following her advice, I took the day off and actually slept well. I will have to do more of this.

The following are steeped in dream-allegory. Usually to ( Read more... )

 Story idea: "Merge"

People tele-operate robots on other planets by copying their mind, and shipping it off to, say, Mars. It then loads into a mining robot and runs it for a few months, before getting broadcast back to you and merged with your "original."

Obvious enough stuff, but what does your mind #2 get up to? Mutiny? Not wanting to come back? ( Read more... )

We're out in the cariboo at 312-03:45:22, stringing. Double-checking the vitals on slug-like hubs, each chloroable synthimal a queen to a thousand lazy drones. Squishy little creatures. Hiding in gopher holes, under scrub, between scraps of shale. They keep an eye on the neighbours, their heaps and tailings. Just like the neighbours keep an eye on ( Read more... )

Following up on my review of The Road in (audio) book format.

I liked the movie of The Road more than the book.

Where it succeeds:

( Read more... )

Synopsis:

The Road is a long, slow and depressing justification for simple-mindedness, especially as applied to morality.

Full text under the cut:
( Read more... )

Review of Sunshine.

Danny Boyle directed 28 days later, which I loved. Sunshine boasts many of the same qualites.
- Beautiful use of colour
- Good use of sound
- "Interesting" use of varied film speed
- Distrust of militaristic hierarchies
- Science Fiction plot that's plausible until you think about it

I liked it too, but it has some big holes that need ( Read more... )

Star Trek roles: commander, first officer, engineer, security, communications, science officer, doctor, pilot, counsellor ( Read more... )

To my friends:

I have a large amount of free time but do not have my usualy level of mobility. Feel free to phone me up whenever you like and drop over for tea, movies, and/or board games. It would be swell to see y'all.

To Science Fiction Authours:

There is no way in hell that a largely peaceful/non-colonial political-economic alliance uniting East ( Read more... )

This review of Greg Bear's sci-fi novel Legacy is juxtaposed to the next-to-sci-fi experience that is Transition because it is the neatest metaphor I have found to date.

It contains spoilers and probably errors.

In Legacy...

Most of what remains of humanity lives in Thistledown, a hollowed-out asteroid, where people are immortal, and have assistant ( Read more... )

Dream signs:
- Science fiction
- Frustration
- Betrayal
- Abandoned cities
- Violence

Like rats shying away from predators, we were holed up on the 30th floor of The Province building. That height really let you see the city in all its abandoned, crumbling glory. Little was painted anymore; all eroded and worn concrete, chunks of plaster and exposed ( Read more... )