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All manned spaceflight is fantasy so you may as well own that
There's no realistic way to send human beings to live on other planets... but that doesn't matter to storytellers
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Marketing your writing isn't hard, you're just lazy
Why the incurious and self-indulgent personality will always fail
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The harrowing horrors and heroics of the Robert E. Howard story
These "pulp tales" still entertain even when there's no surprises
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Creative writers don't look backwards
Writing to the market's demands can work, for awhile. But you won't build a career unless you do this...
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Are you playing these finite games without realizing it?
The hidden dynamics of your life and business in James Carse's book on games
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Why worldbuilders need to grow up
Sub-created worlds are vital to speculative stories, but nerds ruin storytelling with obsessive worldbuilding
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When they caught the worldbuilder disease
How nerdish obsessions ruined storytelling
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Where's the space in space opera?
Most "space opera" is sword & sorcery with a futuristic aesthetic
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Wear a mask to help stop The Thing
What John Carpenter's cult classic shows about the futility of giving into fear and paranoia
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The sublime terror of a distant galactic catastrophe
The Hubble telescope peeps up the universe's dress and shows us a miracle
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Why determinism isn't true and human freedom is real (Part 2)
Free will isn't what you should be worried about
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Why determinism isn't true and human freedom is real (explained in about 15 minutes)
Physicists may talk a big game but it's all show