by David Backman | Jul 5, 2024 | Blog
(Based on characters in The Lightning in the Collied Night) September 18, 2037 Lai dragged herself up the stairs to the second floor of Crothers Hall, exhausted from her first full week of classes at Stanford University. I should have my head examined for taking...
by David Backman | Jun 24, 2024 | Blog
In my previous blog post , I covered some of the technologies that sci-fi writers have predicted we’ll have in the future. I used some of the tech from the Star Trek universe as examples, since it wasn’t possible to cover all sci-fi tech in one post. One of those...
by David Backman | Jun 14, 2024 | Blog
The realm of science fiction is often that of the future, whether the near future, or many centuries or even millennia from now. There are many exceptions, especially when aliens bring the fiction to the story. The Day the Earth Stood Still, Starman, E.T., and...
by David Backman | Jun 3, 2024 | Blog
It’s hard to skim through a day’s news feed or newspaper without seeing at least one story about wormholes. And of course, they often pop up in sci-fi novels, movies, and TV shows. Why is that? What’s so fascinating about something that’s purely theoretical? Unlike...
by David Backman | May 24, 2024 | Blog
In my last three blog posts, I gave my thoughts on what the world might be like 30 years from now—overall, and specifically in terms of technology and the environment. That’s an important question for my first novel, The Lightning in the Collied Night, because most of...
