Well, I did it again: led the Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop (created by science fiction and fantasy author James van Pelt) at a writing conference, this time, Wordbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. Here’s the story I …
It’s time for this year’s Kickstarter to fund Shapers of Worlds Volume V, the fifth in the series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The …
It takes money to publish books, and most of that money flows out the door before the book is released and sales begin, so my publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, is turning to Crowdfundr to help …
Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, the fourth anthology featuring authors who were guests on my podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available everywhere, including directly from Shadowpaw Press. Here’s a handy universal URL with links to …
My publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, has three great titles coming out in the first two months of 2024, all of them science fiction or fantasy. The first two, The Good Soldier by Nir Yaniv and …
Here’s another seven-sentence short story! I ran the workshop again at Ganbatte, an anime convention in Saskatoon. It went well, and here’s the one I created, again with the instructions, created by noted SF short-story …
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"This invention is a system that teleports a human being through hyperspace…"
This has to be the patent application of the year:
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0001] This invention is a system that teleports a human being through hyperspace from one location to another using a pulsed gravitational wave traveling through hyperspace.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] The basis for this invention is an event, referring to FIG. 1, occurring on May 2, 2004, in which the inventor (‘he’) personally experienced a full-body teleportation while walking to the bus stop…
I hate it when that happens.
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2006/05/this-invention-is-a-system-that-teleports-a-human-being-through-hyperspace/
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And yet you never thought to patent the idea. That’s what sets us mundane types apart from…um…geniuses.
That’s hilarious! I wonder if he was just daydreaming and came to at the bus stop… I’ve done that before while driving. I’ll arrive somewhere but have no recollection of the trip. I must have been teleported, too!