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January 31, 2024

New Scifi Audiobook – The Rocket – Live on YouTube

Happy to say that a new scifi audiobook has launched – The Rocket is now live on YouTube! You can listen for free right here. Jeremiah and I hope you enjoy the story – sit back, relax, and enjoy! I’ll tell you a little more about what’s going on:

The Rocket is based on my original short story and it takes a lot of work to produce into an audiobook! Producing an audio book – from story to publishing onto a platform/YouTube – takes as much time as it does to write it. For example, The Rocket took me about 40 hours to write, re-write … it took me another 40 hours to produce into an audio book, not counting whatever time Jeremiah spent on audio work.

It feels great, even if it’s tiring, to make something cool. I want to focus on how the book will make readers feel, so I try to keep thinking about them as much as possible. My original motivation to tell stories is something I’ve talked about on the blog, so I’ll assume you’re asking about ‘motivation to make audio books.’ TL;DR – I like to make movies, too. Turning audio books into mini radio dramas with pictures is something that scratches a fun little itch for me. It’s this close to making movies, and so it brings me a lot of joy to cut video/audio/SFX together in Premiere.

So happy that a new scifi audiobook – The Rocket – is live on Youtube. Now it’s onto the next project – can’t wait to see how you enjoy this work.

Write on! 🙂

 

 

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Published on January 31, 2024 07:23

January 25, 2024

Bob Ross and the Chengdu Hugo Awards

Last night, I watched old episodes of Bob Ross on Youtube and thought about the controversy surrounding the Chengdu Hugo Awards. You know what I’m talking about, right? Per the Guardian, China hosted the Hugos last year for the first time (yay, world!). Only to ‘come under fire for excluding several authors from the 2023 awards, raising concerns about interference or censorship in the awards process.’

Yikes. BookRiot goes further, with a detailed deepdive into the known issues, the backstory, and the implications for the Hugos and science fiction in general. This isn’t the first time the Hugo Awards faced an existential crisis. Some people are already calling for its epitaph. It’s stressful to read, if you’re a writer who loves scifi and wants to make a living at being a writer.

California, Or Bust!

Boatloads of baleful, inauspicious, menacing thoughts ensued. What would I do if everything goes wrong with writing? I don’t have the energy or passion to reboot my life again. My Depression-era Okie family said ‘California, or bust!’ and left their homestead behind. An act of desperation, not hope. They went forward into an uncertain future because there is no other direction to go. Now, we must all do the same.

I contemplated all this last night, watching Bob Ross. Something occurred to me, and I got up this morning to share it with you. When Bob Ross got started, it was after twenty years as a drill instructor. He painted on gold mining pans, and pooled his life savings with a student to make Bob Ross, Inc. Success wasn’t guaranteed and there were many, many dead ends in his journey. Nonetheless, Ross knew what he was here to do and he kept painting. Eventually, he found his place in the universe and even now, you can see the satisfied joy he brings to his work.

We Don’t Know Enough Yet

So that’s one thing. The other is, there’s a TON of speculation and hot-takes surrounding this issue but very little verifiable fact. Perhaps the articles are correct and there’s some hanky-panky going on with the Hugo Awards. Perhaps not. We have to be careful we’re not turning into Chicken Little and It’s stressful to see something happen to science fiction, but aren’t we showing ourselves to be, uh, susceptible to manipulation?

Yes, the Hugos are an institution, but the Sad Puppies proved that institution is vulnerable. We can’t protect the Hugos from exploitation, but we can protect ourselves. There’s a quote from Robert Heinlein’s ‘Expanded Universe’ that always stuck with me: The man who can’t be blackmailed, won’t be blackmailed. Modernized, the phrase would be: if we can’t be manipulated, we won’t be manipulated.

Just Keep Writing

Tying that all together, we come back to Bob Ross. What would Bob Ross do, if he were a scifi author in 2024 looking for his big break? This is where my previous advice comes from. ‘[T]here isn’t an origin story – it’s just you making it happen every day.’  If Bob Ross commented on the Hugo Awards, his advice to us would probably be: keep writing. ‘Keep doing what you do, because that’s what you do.’

Worrying about the Hugos and scandals takes precious energy from our main purpose – making science fiction. If this avenue falls short – Bob Ross never got rich selling paintings on the back of gold mining pans – then we have to trust that another path will open for us. We have to keep going. Find your place in the universe, don’t wait for the universe to find you.

So, good news! Watching Bob Ross can give you valuable insight about the Chengdu Hugo Awards. TL;DR – relax, it’s going to be okay eventually. If you can do that, then you will survive this moment. The storm will pass and the dust will settle. We’ll see what happens to the Hugo Awards while we continue to champion our genre and community: science fiction.

 

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Published on January 25, 2024 08:17

January 22, 2024

Scifi Art – New Concept Art for ‘The Rocket’

Hard at work this week but let’s make time for some new scifi art – concept art for ‘The Rocket.’ Coming soon to a free audio book near you – this art captures your heart and your imagination. When malicious ignorance meets unstoppable consequences, it’s down to one man to reach his father one last time, if he can. These are some raw videos being produced into the audiobook – I hope you enjoy them and I can’t wait to share the audio book with you in a few days!

 

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Published on January 22, 2024 18:23

January 15, 2024

Mike.Sierra.Echo – How Dangerous is the Asteroid?

Happy Monday – let’s answer a question from Mike.Sierra.Echo – how dangerous is the asteroid 2008 EV5? In case you have no idea what I’m talking about, 2008 EV5 is an Aten-class Asteroid about the size of the U.S. Capitol building. Naturally, it would make a dandy counterweight for a space elevator!

But what if the asteroid hit Earth? That’s why everyone would ask ‘how dangerous is the asteroid?’ We’d need to have some clear understanding of the impact and fortunately, MetaBall Studios has us covered. Watch this video and then let’s discuss what it would mean for Earth:

So yeah, yikes. You don’t want this rock hitting the ground. For comparison – 2008 EV5 is *slightly* larger than 99942 Apophis and would result in similar damage to this impact – not world-ending but certainly not something you want to see happen. The impact is reported to have a similar amount of energy to 51 Tsar Bombas. The blast would re-arrange your Florida patio furniture from the shores of Africa so … do the math.

Other fun facts about 2008 EV5: 2008 EV5 can be reached with a journey of 362 days. This trajectory would require a delta-v of 6.291 km/s. To put this into perspective, the delta-v to launch a rocket to Low-Earth Orbit is 9.7 km/s. There are 320,844 potential trajectories and launch windows to this asteroid.

How Bad Would It Be?

But back to asteroid impact events – we’ve seen them before. The Chelyabinsk meteor had a “blast yield of 400–500 kilotons of TNT (about 1.4–1.8 PJ) … 26 to 33 times as much energy as that released from the atomic bomb detonated at Hiroshima … 1,491 people were injured seriously enough to seek medical treatment. All of the injuries were due to indirect effects rather than the meteor itself, mainly from broken glass from windows that were blown in when the shock wave arrived, minutes after the superbolide’s flash.”

You can watch a supercut of those Chelyabinsk videos here. Long story long, impact events do damage and Chelyabinsk was 4.5% the size of 2008 EV5. People would naturally be nervous about parking a rock that big anywhere near Earth. How will we handle 2008 EV5 in Mike.Sierra.Echo while honoring both young readers AND discerning scifi fans? I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at the answer.

Back to work – can’t wait to share some exciting news about Mike.Sierra.Echo. Keep watching!

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Published on January 15, 2024 08:51

January 11, 2024

Notes from Eugene – 01/11/2024 – A Warm, Lighted Place

“EUGENE, Ore. — The City of Eugene is seeking proposals to utilize $1,056,545 from the 2024 Affordable Housing Trust Fund to support housing developments that cater to the housing needs of low and moderate-income Eugene residents.”

LOL – the check is in the mail. A million bucks wouldn’t cover the bar tab at the 2023 National Conference on Ending Homelessness and Capitol Hill Day at the Washington Hilton in DC. But it’s still amusing to dream. What would I do with a million bucks to help people?

Never mind. My notes from Eugene contain the usual spread ranging from mundane to murder. Mangled pedestrians, a new Old Spaghetti Factory. The top headlines pale in comparison to the homeless guy in our laundry room. His name is Fred and he’s another citizen of Methopotamia. All he wants is a dry place to rest and recover. RoseMarie had a couple of freakouts, and then decided to ignore him. Fred seems relatively harmless and now he’s become another fixture in our cast of crazy Mill Street players.

I tap on the window at first light, a sack of laundry over my shoulder. “Morning, Fred.” Fred isn’t much for conversation. He knows the rules and so do I. We ignore each other. Fred has a warm place to sleep for the night and I don’t get hit up for money I don’t have to give. Small comforts mean a great deal when the temperature drops and the rain turns to snow.

Learn to Ignore It

Ignoring the horror seems the only sane option. When bleeding pedestrians lay across wet asphalt with a ‘Advertise Here’ billboard looming in the distance. High school kids building tiny houses for wildfire survivors. Homeless and the ‘housing insecure’ populations are going up, not down. I’m powerless to stop it – like most of Eugene. They used to say about surviving the Vietnam War that one of the most important things to learn was what to ignore. That seems to be a valid survival tactic in the Year of Our Lord 2024.

What happens when you don’t ignore it? Well, you end up like this rapscallion who threatened to kill everyone when he couldn’t pay for his order at Burrito Boy. You can appreciate the subtlety of his scam, but now he’ll be eating three squares a day courtesy the ODOC.

Never mind the pedestrians slaughtered like chickens on Highway 99. Ignore the mounting bills and the failure to launch of my writing career. Pay no attention to the man sleeping in your laundry room. You might be fighting him for space next week, if the dice fall the wrong way.

A winter storm watch starts tomorrow afternoon and I’m sure Fred will need a place to sleep until the clouds lift again. Meanwhile, if a hot cup of coffee and a sandwich should magically appear on his window sill, I’m sure Fred wouldn’t mind.

 

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Published on January 11, 2024 09:31

January 10, 2024

Mike.Sierra.Echo – Space Debris and You

Let’s break radio silence by tying Mike.Sierra.Echo with a real-world issue you need to know about: Space Debris. Defined, space debris is ‘defunct human-made objects in space – principally in Earth orbit – which no longer serve a useful function. These include derelict spacecraft – nonfunctional spacecraft and abandoned launch vehicle stages – mission-related debris, and particularly numerous in Earth orbit, fragmentation debris from the breakup of derelict rocket bodies … Space debris represents a risk to spacecraft.’

How dangerous is space debris? Let’s let Sabine Hossenfelder explain:



I like Hossenfelder – she has an earnest, plain-spoken way of explaining complex science and physics to regular people like you and me. It’s not every day you get to talk to a theoretical physicist, so make sure you make the most of it!

So, what? The issues and dangers of space debris are growing, not shrinking. According to this article, ‘The U.S. government tracks about 23,000 pieces of debris larger than a softball orbiting the Earth. In a few decades, if the build-up of space debris continues, some regions of space might become unusable, Holger Krag, head of the ESA’s Space Safety Programme Office, said in an interview.’

How does space debris fit with Mike.Sierra.Echo? As a space elevator must travel from the ground to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) – the danger of space debris MUST be factored into any relevant safety plan. How will the space elevator react if debris impacts the module, or the cable? Will it be game-over, or are there ways to fix a damaged space elevator in orbit?

TL;DR – space debris is a thing. You may not care right now, but you’ll care in a few years when pencil-sized pieces of metal punch holes in your solar panels. How will Mike solve this life-threatening challenge? Stay tuned to learn more in Mike.Sierra.Echo!

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January 2, 2024

Anti-Origin Story: I Make Scifi Because Scifi Made Me

Listen to my Anti-Origin Story and you’ll learn how I scifi because scifi made me. One of my greatest successes as a person was the moment that my life was an anti-Origin Story. Scifi led me to that conclusion, and scratches the surface of why I’m grateful to both the scifi genre and to the community.

It’s no secret that science fiction has shaped who I am. I kept coming back to scifi over and over – it’s been a constant in an otherwise chaotic existence. I grew up watching scifi and understanding its purpose ‘as a vehicle for social comment, as networks and sponsors who censored controversial material from live dramas were less concerned with seemingly innocuous fantasy and sci-fi stories.’ In his own quietly subversive way, guys like Roddenberry and Serling shaped our culture; today we live in the future they helped create.

The Anti-Origin Story Begins

Science fiction has done a lot for me. First, it makes progress feel possible. Making scifi introduced me to the concept that creating art helps you create yourself. Even the bad parts of scifi seemed to challenge me to do better.

The entire process of making scifi humbled me. Trying to see success as a linear path has always led to dead ends. It’s never that easy. Making stuff yourself gives you so much respect for those out there doing the same.

Here’s where the anti-origin story happens. When you realize that ‘linear paths’ no longer apply to you. When you realize that following Bruce Lee’s ‘be like water’ advice means getting used to the cold. Some human beings weren’t born to follow, and the price of that path is loneliness. Your origin story happens when you realize there isn’t an origin story – it’s just you making it happen every day. Whatever it means, whatever this path is leading you to – a competent historian will make it look as though it was inevitable, but you know. We know.

Difficult Roads Lead to Beautiful Places

That’s the anti-origin story. Scifi wrote my anti-origin story – it helped me find my place in the universe – now I make scifi because scifi made me. This process led me to beautiful places. Respair over despair. Scifi “inspires curiosity through stories that demonstrate what could be created and what could become of society.” Science fiction is a weapon in the war against our dystopian reality. Writing scifi has been a way for me to escape all of that.

I’ll tell you a cool story – Mike.Sierra.Echo started out with a dream where a space elevator was rising from the earth over the top of ‘On the Turning Away’ by Pink Floyd. I woke up realizing I had dreamed the movie trailer for a movie that didn’t exist. What would a space elevator be doing that was so important? Why was it a story that needed to be told?

How I Know I’m An Artist

Taking a concept from idea to 60K-word novel. Then step back to go ‘wow, I did that.’ That process has done so much for my mental and emotional health. I have a lot of problems to overcome as a person – but I feel good about saying ‘they can’t take away the fact that I wrote a novel. I tried, I did, I shipped. I’m a real artist.’

As you chip away at the trauma and the baggage, you uncover the parts of yourself that aren’t pretty and can’t be blamed on others. I haven’t seen many stories that tell this emotional arc of ‘chaotic character development,’ so I wanted to tell a story that did. Something that got to the core ‘unclogging-a-drain-by-getting-up-to-your-elbows-in-dirty-dishwater’ messy truths. How criticism and self-work kick off a number of potential flight-or-flight responses. How you earn a lot of respect by doing the work.

But There’s More to It

Here is another truth from my anti-origin scifi story. ‘Messy’ kids? They aren’t messy at all. They were handed bad cards – nobody showed them how to recover. Not fair, not fair at all. Science, and science fiction, can be huge force multipliers to people climbing out of poverty. Anyone can help – you just have to care, first.

To help other ‘messy’ kids feel seen and understood, I started out with a protagonist who eventually became Mike. He’s the result of a lot of personal family trauma – losing your mom at a young age to a tragic accident and then watching your family implode under the stress. How would he come back from that? Why would a twelve-year-old steal a space elevator, knowing he’d get caught? How would he conclude that stealing with the space elevator was the only way to save it?

Mike lost his mom to a brain aneurysm (one of the scariest ways to go, IMO). Then he fell into the clutches of his controlling, narcissistic ultra-wealthy Grandma – an Elon Musk of the 22nd Century. How do you survive that? Could you teach her a lesson she couldn’t ignore or buy her way out of? Could you write a story that’s a blueprint for surviving a tough childhood?

Messy to Clean

You can’t just WRITE a story like that – it has to be fun. Like, how does a space elevator work, anyway? Why haven’t they built one yet? Assuming they solve all the engineering challenges, what would the space elevator like inside? How do you navigate the emotional minefields of narcissistic, controlling family? Minefields aren’t linear paths to safety, there are ways to identify and avoid danger zones. You can recover from setbacks and meltdowns. I wrote about all of that – a love-letter to a young ‘Me’ saying ‘Yes, you’re going to survive. Here’s a way to get through it.’

It’s not easy. Real, authentic science fiction has to exist as art beyond commerce if it’s going to be anything that looks like genuine, legitimate hope. Navigating the fine line between art and commerce means daily work. Science fiction is actualized imagination and determination. We have to do it every day. I had to ask and answer questions every day with Mike.Sierra.Echo. Where would the space elevator live? Would you even have it in North America? What would the launch complex look like from the outside? Answering all the questions forced me to write and re-write again to make it all fit together.

Of course you can lose yourself in the process of finding your way. Oddly enough, your inner compass tells you when you’re on the right path (or not). Want a clue? It’s easy – you’ll never be able to accept easy answers anymore. Our culture thrives on making things seem easy, only for you to realize that the work’s been subsidized with your money, or your freedom. You’ll never be able to do that anymore without your conscience going ‘yeah … no.’

Now, It’s Your Turn

Society also thinks that the strongest person in room is the one who cares the least. We can’t afford to tolerate that for too long. Our culture thinks that the strongest person in room is the one who cares the least. I firmly believe this won’t get us anywhere as a species. We defeat noise and rage by using kindness and love. Mike.Sierra.Echo is one boy’s story of figuring out how it works.

Ultimately, I told a story where people lost something big, found their way home. I wrote Mike Sierra Echo for the people trying to find *their* way home. I make scifi because scifi made me – my origin story, wasn’t an origin story at all.

The truth is, home isn’t a place at all. It’s a place inside you and it works wherever you are. It’s inside you, maybe it’s in another town, maybe it’s 100,000 miles into space. Telling the story of Mike.Sierra.Echo has taught me a lot about myself. Now I’m taking the next step forward by bringing it to life as a published novel. None of that would be possible without science fiction and for that, I’m forever grateful.

New for 2024 – Cat tax – I am a world-class Cat Rater on Mastodon and here is one of the cats I rated yesterday. “As an experienced curator of fine art, Yoyo evinces a quiet reserve with dignity and a taste for antiquities. 10/10 – down for a trip to the Met anytime!” https://mastodon.social/@inkican/111682346889455375

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Published on January 02, 2024 12:16

December 28, 2023

Inkican By the Numbers – 2023 Author Metrics

As we close out the year, I wanted to share author metrics that show Inkican’s progress by the numbers in 2023. Some might ask ‘okay … why?’ and the answer is pretty simple. Metrics play a vital role in measuring the performance and success of organizations. How do we know if we’re doing the right thing if we don’t measure it? This might be an annual tradition, I haven’t decided. For now, let’s talk Inkican by the numbers – here are my 2023 author metrics:

Short Stories Written: 4Audio Short Stories Produced: 4Novel Words Written: 127626Sales

Short stories (ebook): 278

Short stories (audio): 63

Social Media Metrics

New Youtube Channel Subscribers: 3866

Mastodon Followers: 1230

Blog Posts Written: 105Top blog posts More Proof that ChatGPT Isn’t About to Replace Writing Ready Player One: Bad Writing Doesn’t Matter Epitaph for a Hacker – RIP Kevin Mitnick Czech Retrofuturism and Futurama Inkican in a Post-Twitter Universe Top Cat Posts

And that’s it – Inkican By the Numbers – my 2023 Author Metrics. All the Mastodon toots, all the conversations, all the writing – this is what it adds up to. What is my hope for 2024? Writing even more! Taking the next few days slow – I want to hit the ground running next Monday. I hope you do the same – let’s make 2024 an amazing place to be.

PS – only a few more days to plunder my library – get my short stories for free!

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Published on December 28, 2023 08:23

December 26, 2023

Broken Coffee Cups – Altruistic Affirmations for 2024

Down to the last few hours of 2023 – let’s start talking about an altruistic affirmation for 2024. No politics, no agendas, no polarizing social issues – let’s make 2024 better than 2023. Is that fair?

I hope so. There’s this old broken coffee cup on my desk – too broken for hot coffee – that holds my pencils and pens. I’m fond of that coffee cup, and sometimes I think it’s a great metaphor for my life. Once I explain it, maybe it’ll sound like a metaphor for you, too.

My broken coffee cup started out life with a purpose. Then it was shattered – no fault of its own. It was too valuable to throw away, too broken to continue its original journey. What do we do with the broken coffee cup? I glued it together, got it back to its more-or-less original shape and decided to honor it by making it my trusty pencil/pen holder. It’s been doing that job for about a year now and it’s doing great.

Then I started remembering an old spy novel where they used a broken ashtray to describe the intelligence-gathering process. You don’t have an ashtray unless you have all the pieces. An ashtray needs all the pieces together to be itself. I don’t smoke, so we’ll use coffee cups instead.

Cup Repair 101A

To put the cup together you need: all the pieces, glue, and some time and patience to assemble it into the right shape. A broken cup needs all the pieces before we can contemplate gluing it together. We could try pretending that it’s all there, with half the pieces missing, but that would go as far as the next time I poured hot coffee into it. All the pieces need to be together to work.

After we put the cup together – the cracks are still going to be there – the cup’s damage is part of its life. Similar to kinstugi, which treats broken pottery as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise, we’re going one step further. Sometimes we don’t have gold to put into the cracks. Other times, we have to acknowledge a painful truth. The cup’s original purpose is gone, all we can do is find a new way to express its value.

The older I get, the more I realize: people are broken coffee cups. Mental health, personal choices, bad circumstances – we all have a breaking point. We’ve all reached that breaking point, and now we’re trying to glue our pieces back together. Here’s where it gets interesting.

Some people ‘glue’ their coffee cups together in healthy ways: growth, self-care, professional help. Others mend a broken coffee cup with broken strategies: toxic ‘glues’ (Looking at you, Andrew Tate), pretending the cup is whole with half the pieces, breaking other peoples’ cups. Worse yet, some people see a mended coffee cup and take it on as a personal challenge to break them. This used to be a form of social entertainment, and more work to normalize empathy is needed, but thankfully we’re starting to turn a corner.

First and foremost – let’s just sit with the idea for a minute. One of the hardest things to do, after a life-changing problem, is to accept that things are different now. ‘Acceptance means embracing the present, understanding the extent of the loss rather than fighting it, accepting responsibility for yourself and your actions, and then starting your journey toward a new phase of life with contentment.’ So using this ‘broken coffee cup’ metaphor is about finding that acceptance for you. It’s also about helping others accept their new circumstances.

It’s not easy to be a broken coffee cup. You have to accept that things are different, you can’t pretend you’re fine. There’s a certain strength involved in admitting that you are permanently vulnerable. The wrong people won’t understand – you’ll have days where somebody’s out front going “Hey, you’re a broken coffee cup!” Those moments suck, I’m not going to lie, and we have to deal with that pain.

But for every person who can’t understand why a broken coffee cup isn’t worthless, there’s ten or maybe twenty people out there going ‘I see you. You are valuable. Your resilience inspires me and I appreciate you.’

What if we – through the power of altruism and affirmation – helped each other put our broken coffee cups together? What if we helped each other see that we’re all broken coffee cups in our own way? That’d be a powerful way to make life better for everyone, honoring the work of people like Jim Henson, Bob Ross, and Mr. Rogers.

We don’t need a quasi-spiritual context to be broken coffee cups. We can be kind because kind is the right thing to do. I hope this altruistic affirmation sets you up for success in 2024. We need all the help we can get.

 

 

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Published on December 26, 2023 09:26

December 21, 2023

Sci-Friday #201 – Solstice-5 by Paul Chadeisson – Scifi Art in Motion

If you’ve followed my IG account, you know I’m a fan of Paul Chadeisson and his scifi art. For Sci-Friday, let’s enjoy this scifi art video by Chadeisson – ‘Solstice-5’ – which brings some of his concept art to life in a haunting narrative. I highly recommend watching full screen in HD. Take a look:



Per one Youtube commentor: ‘The bright colors and enormous industrial aesthetic of Chris Foss, Peter Elson, and other famous sci-fi artists of the 1970s are something that is sorely lacking in modern science fiction. This visuals shown here not only try to preserve this style, but look better than most science fiction films being made today.’ I heartily agree. The moody, detail-rich backdrops create their own diegetic storytelling of a wasted planet.

You’ve seen Chadeisson’s work in Dune Part: II, The Creator, Foundation ( apple tv), and Love death and Robots. His intricate, evocative visuals take simple concepts and breathe life into them, daring you to look away. I love his work – I’d love to work with him someday.

Why am I releasing Sci-Friday a day early? Simple: today is the Winter Solstice. Let’s enjoy it with a film called ‘Solstice-5!’ I hope you enjoyed this little adventure. Paul Chadeisson and his Scifi Art never fail to amaze. Please feel welcomed to dive down the rabbit hole of every other Sci-Friday I’ve published in the past couple years. Have a great weekend!

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Published on December 21, 2023 11:34