by G.L. Breedon | Sep 20, 2023 | Science, Science Fiction, Writing-Craft
I recently watched this youtube video about how to use seven short prompts to have AI write a novel for you. It bothered me, because I feel that if you are going to do that then you need to tell people the book they are buying was really written by AI, but also...
by G.L. Breedon | Aug 27, 2023 | Film, Science Fiction
I have always had an odd fascination with sci-fi films from the 1950s. More than any other decade the films of the 1950s have always seemed to epitomize the classic sci-fi story tropes: Space Travel and Exploration, Alien Invasion, Atomic Apocalypse, and Mutant...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 21, 2023 | Film, Science Fiction
I recently rewatched one of my favorite scifi films, Forbidden Planet (1956). I did not ask my wife to watch it with me as we had viewed it for one of my birthday scifi film festivals a few years ago. My wife’s enthusiasm for scifi films from the 1950s does not...
by G.L. Breedon | Feb 24, 2023 | Film, Science Fiction
It’s been a while since I posted here. Life has been busy. Moving house among other things. Writing has been slower than I would like, but that is always the case. Because time is always limited, I thought I’d post something that has been sitting on my...
by G.L. Breedon | Jan 27, 2021 | Science Fiction, TV, Uncategorized
Part 3 of my journey through my childhood scifi TV viewing habits. Space Academy 1977 I only have vague memories of this show. The thing that stands out in my mind most is the model of the space station/planetoid. That and the very youthful cast. I can’t...
by G.L. Breedon | Nov 30, 2017 | Alchemy of World and Soul, Science Fiction
(Hieronymus Bosch “Visions of Hell” vs. Robert McCall, “The Prologue and the Promise”) I posted another excerpt from The Alchemy of World and Soul. This one is about Apocalypse vs. Utopia. It starts like this: The sunshine was like an ocean of light,...
