Tag: Travel and Discovery
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Science Fiction and the RoadWriter Life, Part 2: Abandoned barge canals and lost civilizations
What stirs reader imagination or exploratory longings more than a good adventure story about a lost civilization?! Your starship lands on a primitive world where you discover mysterious structures half buried in the jungle that hint at forgotten technological prowess. (Star Trek, anyone?). Floating down the river on your noble quest, your fellowship of travelers…
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Science Fiction and the RoadWriter Life, Part 1: Finding Trilobites
Today I’ve been thinking about what makes science fiction, science fiction (spurred by my recent publication of a ghost story-science fiction crossover, “A Visit from Old Earth”, in S’more Spooky Stories, published by Owl Hollow Press). Thinking about science fiction makes me think about trilobites (of course), long abandoned barge canals, and my campervan. Let…
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Spontaneity: Joy of the Road!
My wife and I began planning our joint retirement four years in advance (calling those four years our freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years of retirement, building up to a sense of beginning rather than ending). As the senior year marched toward graduation, we decided that it would be great fun to get a little…