Short Stories
Edward Willett
- Saturday Special from the Vaults: A 1997 interview with Tolkien artist John Howe
John Howe is an artist particularly well known for his illustrations based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. He and Alan Lee served as the chief conceptual designers for The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, so you have well have seen his work without …
- Mind-reading through technology
Most of the time, we don’t really want other people to know what we’re thinking. When a friend starts spouting conspiracy theories or a relative asks what we think of her new tattoo, it’s just as well that only our soothing platitudes are heard, while the words running through our heads remain unspoken
Outside of science …
- Saturday Special from the Vaults: Sins of the Father
OK, this is an interesting one. As I have often recounted, Marseguro, which won the 2009 Aurora Award for best Canadian science fiction novel in English, began with a single opening line penned as a morning exercise in the Writing With …
- Vehicle-to-vehicle communication
Do you talk to your car? I know I do (perhaps not as much as I, um, “talk” to other drivers, but some). I think I inherited the trait from my mother: all of the cars of my childhood, I knew from her, were …
- Saturday Special from the Vaults: Close Encounters of the Science Centre Kind
Here’s a blast from the past: my 1993 script for a half-hour science-fiction-flavored promotional TV show for the Saskatchewan Science Centre, which aired on Cable Regina (now Access Communications). I was communications officer of the Science Centre at the time. Since I voiced the alien, large portions of this consisted essentially of me talking to …
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