Aerospace engineer & award-winning SF/ Horror writer, SF novels CREATIONS / ERADICATIONS now out, also won Writers of the Future (Vol 28) - more to come!
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How do you know you’re doing well as a writer? When you type your first line into Google and the AI offers you counselling.
Is #WidowsBay the American Scarfolk? Only 2 episodes in, but that selection of board games at the inn was giving Scarfolk vibes from top to bottom.
Chefs: “Italians say that pasta water should be as salty as the ocean”
Also chefs: “Reserve a cup of starchy pasta water to mix back into the sauce”
My kid eating the result:
New book time! Having spent the past few years making up stories about aliens, I decided a while back to try and figure out what the actual chances are - i.e. the likelihood of intelligent life other than us existing in this galaxy. 1/3
If you've heard of the Fermi Paradox, or the Great Silence, it's the same idea - in a galaxy of a hundred billion stars, are we really the only ones? It's taken a while, but this is the result - The Still and Silent Stars, available in Kindle and paperback. 2/3
The Netflix subtitles style guide - less “Eats, Shoots and Leaves,” more “Grunts, Pants and Chuckles” ?
Watching #TenCent’s #ThreeBody adaptation, the irony of trying to divine the timings and durations of the YouTube ad breaks is not lost on me. Will there be one flying ad or two in the sky? How long will the next ad-free stable era be? Can I get through without dehydrating?
Finally read the Top Gun credits (after seeing it for the fifty somethingth time) - now I know where Peter (callsign “Wormtail”) Pettigrew was really hiding all those years…
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OTD 1970…
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