For those of you that enjoyed my recent guest blog post on Dan Koboldt’s long running Science in SciFi/Fact in Fantasy blog series on worldbuilding cold environments, I have a followup out on emergency survival in these situations. It’s based on my training in Antarctica. This second installment just posted to Dan’s website: Dan isContinue reading “Guest Post: On Physics and Emergency Survival in Cold Environments for Dan Koboldt’s Fact in Fantasy”
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Guest Post: On Worldbuilding Cold Environments for Dan Koboldt’s Fact in Fantasy
So the recent daily blog experiment ended, but I have not been doing nothing – I was fortunate enough to be invited to do another guest blog post on Dan Koboldt’s long running Science in SciFi/Fact in Fantasy blog series. This one is on cold environments. It’s based on my experience working in Antarctica andContinue reading “Guest Post: On Worldbuilding Cold Environments for Dan Koboldt’s Fact in Fantasy”
Writing Choices: Quality vs Quantity
If you follow my blog you will know that on 5/1/23 I decided to try an experiment. I wanted to see if, by writing a blog entry every day, I could create a ‘writing habit’. It was intended as a 21 day straight series, but I have decided to end it early. Why? So inContinue reading “Writing Choices: Quality vs Quantity”
Guest Post: Writing for the SFWA Blog
As I stated in my last post – you may have noticed I have been a little slower with blog posts here lately as I have been fortunate to write guest blog posts elsewhere and that has kept me busy. The second of these has just come out on the Science Fiction and Fantasy WritersContinue reading “Guest Post: Writing for the SFWA Blog”
Guest Post: Dan Koboldt’s Science in SciFi
So I have not posted a blog post here recently, but it is because I was fortunate enough to be invited to do guest blog posts a couple of places. The first of those to come out is a post on the Science of Skin in Fiction, which is a guest blog post on DanContinue reading “Guest Post: Dan Koboldt’s Science in SciFi”
Perseids Meteor Shower Next Three Days
One of the things I love about science fiction is the ability to imagine other worlds and the possibilities in the immense universe in which we live. Growing up in rural Scotland, our long, dark, winter nights were the perfect canvas for my imagination. Staring at the stars there you could see the entire bandContinue reading “Perseids Meteor Shower Next Three Days”
Gideon Smith 