Tag: aliens

The Space-Time Continuum: Aliens in Science Fiction

Having just posted my column from the February/March 2017 issue of Freelance, the magazine of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild (see previous post), it behooves me to be more timely and post the most recent column, from the April/May issue. And here it is! I remember being confused, as a kid, the first time I encountered the …

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My Aurora-eligible short story “A Little Space Music”

The deadline for nominations for the Aurora Awards, for the best Canadian speculative fiction, is just two weeks away (April 15)…so naturally I’m only now getting around to making my only Aurora eligible work of the year available online for potential nominators to read. Still, ’tis better to have posted the story and not be …

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Nice review of “A Little Space Music”

Speculating Canada, a relatively new blog focusing on Canadian science fiction, fantasy and horror, has a nice review of “A Little Space Music,” my humorous “amateur theatre in outer space” short story just published in OnSpec. It begins: In “A Little Space Music”, Edward Willett demonstrates his creative wit and humour. He plays on an …

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Saturday Special from the Vaults: Picking the Bones

This is an unpublished and, as far as I know, never-submitted short-short I rediscovered in my files. I think I may have written it at Banff during the Writing With Style workshop on writing science fiction with Robert J. Sawyer, the same workshop out of which came Marseguro. The landing pod settled in the middle …

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Belated Saturday Special from the Vaults: Landscape with Alien

This week’s (two-days-late-because-of-Christmas) Saturday special from the vaults is an unpublished short story that won an award in the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild’s short fiction competition sometime in the 1990s…I think. If I’m remembering right. It never found a publisher, but I used to read it at school and library readings from time to time, though …

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Paging all those "Face on Mars" believers…

…there’s a new formation for you to sink your conspiritorially minded teeth into: a “doorway” in an unusually shaped mountain on the Red Planet. (That’s it at left.) (Via Futurismic.)

Paging all those "Face on Mars" believers…

…there’s a new formation for you to sink your conspiritorially minded teeth into: a “doorway” in an unusually shaped mountain on the Red Planet. (That’s it at left.) (Via Futurismic.)

Aliens…

…or lit-up Coke bottles on a kite? Whatever, people are reporting mysterious lights in the skies over Arkansas. (For the record, I went to university in Arkansas…but, alas, never saw any mysterious lights. And I’m the sort of guy who’d really love to see something like that. People like me never see these things.)

The Viking probes 30 years ago may have found life on Mars..

…and then promptly killed it.

Planetary defense for dummies?

Did you know there’s a book called An Introduction to Planetary Defense: A Study of Modern Warfare Applied to Extra-Terrestrial Invasion? I didn’t! I hope it doesn’t involve Will Smith as a fighter pilot and a computer virus that somehow infects completely alien computer systems… (Via Instapundit.)

"Aliens could attack at any time"

That’s what the former head of Britain’s Ministry of Defence’s UFO project says.

SETI @ Home, revisited

Every day, I help search for extraterrestrial intelligence…or, at least, my computer does. It’s one of more than 4,287,000 computers worldwide called SETI@Home (SETI stands for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) which constantly examine data collected by the huge Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico for signals that could have come from extraterrestrial civilizations. Any signals …

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