While some science fiction imagines humanity alone in the universe, other stories imagine that life just like our own is plentiful outside our Solar System. One common thread in such stories is the idea of precursor civilisations - ancient races that lived, died and passed out of general knowledge long before humanity took to the stars.
New #CosmicStories blog post! Today we look at the predictability of people - or at least of populations - in Foundation's psychohistory and other science fictions. Featuring Asimov, Anderson, Harrison and McLean. Comments always welcome!
New post! Today in my #CosmicStories#ScienceandSF blog post, I'm looking at an active concern in space utilisation: Planetary Protection - the dangers of contaminating one biosphere with life from another, featuring Clarke, Walters, Thompson, Chambers, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Thunderbirds are Go and others. Comments always welcome.
In today's new #CosmicStories#ScienceandSF blog post I'm looking at Super Submarines in science fiction (particularly TV SF of the 1960s) - from Seaview to SeaquestDSV, Nautilus to Stingray, SkyDiver to Thunderbird Four.
Dinosaurs! On Spaceships! Today's #CosmicStories#ScienceandSF blog post looks at exodinosaurs - the saurians to be found beyond our planet. Featuring Pope, Sawyer, Jeppson, Niven, Benford and, of course, Doctor Who. Comments welcome!
I have a new #CosmicStories#ScienceandSF blog post to share! Today I'm looking at artificial gravity and how it's been represented in examples like 2001, The Expanse, Babylon 5 and others.
There's a new #CosmicStories#ScienceandSF blog post! Today I look at species that have created their own successors - and their own destruction. Featuring Forbidden Planet, Transformers, Stargate, the Uplift series and others. Comments are always very welcome!