Matthew Alan Thyer's Blog, page 30
October 12, 2015
IOTD
Arrival by TK769
A note from a friend last night has me thinking a lot about humanity and Very Big Space Projects. My friend went to see The Martianat Seattle Science Center’s Imax theater (without me). After watching the cinema he bought the book and read it cover to cover. He wrote the following:
Got me thinking how it wasn’t Scifi, it was fantasy– in the sense that how in hell will NASA ever get consistent enough funding to put together a program like that? When administrations change ever...
October 7, 2015
IOTD
“Children of War: Zoah” by Junowski
I knew it was coming. Sometime early this morning the rain started to fall. My left foot hurt, radiating pain up my leg into my hip, which is why I never needed to look out the window to see the clouds moving. It’s also why, when I sat down this morning to start writing, the first thing I looked for was futuristic representations of prosthetic limbs.
Forgive me, I don’t blame anyone for this pain and I’m happy I got to keep my foot. When it starts acting up...
October 6, 2015
IOTD
“daily sketch 4240” by nosoart
My friend Jim Hines is at it again. Operation Cover Pose, in which Jim poses uncomfortably like women featured on the covers of science fiction books, intends to raise $10,000 to help end violence against women. The Pixel Project‘s Indigogo page has already met it’s opening goal so now we’re just adding cream.
Now there’s an idea! Jim in whipped cream.
Badassery Reviews Future Chronicles
An in-depth review of The Future Chronicles. Crom! you are compelled by the power of Greyskull to read the review followed rapidly by devouring the anthology as would Ammit.
The Future Chronicles has grown, from a single collection of robot stories, into a series whose unique take on major science fiction and fantasy themes – A.I., aliens, time travel, dragons, telepaths, zombies, immortality, galactic battles, cyborgs, doomsday – has made it one of the most acclaimed short story anthology s...
Reaching
Back in the coffee shop. Getting ready for a productive morning of writing. I’ve got edits and more edits and an outline I need to finish, but I spent a little time getting caught up. Scalzi has this lovely piece about friends that I’d put up on my mental-nightstand; he posits that, despite the currents of mid-life, he’s made more and better friends than he would have otherwise. I appreciate his observations about conventions in this article, and to tell thetruth, his words make me want to g...
October 5, 2015
Another Sunset
Makes me wonder what’s still on fire.
October 2, 2015
IOTD
I am not Bane
It’s not every day a good Army buddy sits down and draws your likeness. Today’s inspiration comes from Jeffrey Wittywho is currently recuperatingin a Thai hospital bed. Also the same guy who did the cover for Big Red Buckle. Guy has mad skills, he made me look really cool, or evil or something. I love it!
October 1, 2015
Love and Rockets
Love and Rockets from Love and Rockets
Me: *Cranks up No Big Deal from the self-titled Love and Rockets album.
A-bear: *thump, thump, thump, thump up the stairs* “Dad, this is awesome!” Proceeds to grove out.
Thanks!
Vashon Island is, apparently, a Key Lime free community. I looked, and looked again, but all I could locate were the big Mexican limes. No Key Limes, no Key Lime Pie. I was a sad panda for about seven and a half minutes. Then I got over it by eating a piece of chocolate.
Speedpaint #43 by Sylar113
A Broadspectrum Thank YouFor my forty-third Birthday, I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who took a moment to wish my good fortune. This thank you is social med...
September 29, 2015
IOTD
Perlan 2 soaring to the edge of the atmosphere
In my book The Big Red Buckle, I image an endurance race of people soaring mountain waves at the edge of the Martian atmosphere. Humanity seems infinitely adaptable and well beyond our petty and violent squabbles sports are wonderful aspirational motivation. The thing is people don’t fight one another if there is a framework in place for them to constructively compete with one another.
Whether it’s pushing abody as fast as possible along the edge...
