Tag: science fiction

Episode 001: Blackout

September 20, 2019

Written, edited, and recorded by Eric P. MetzeVoice direction by Matthew Neves This is the first story in a series called Eminence, a series that will be released one episode at a time until it is complete. It focuses on three main characters who meet up innocently enough only to find themselves a part of […]

Clive Thompson on Why Sci-Fi Is the Last Bastion of Philosophical Writing

January 18, 2008

Recently I read a novella that posed a really deep question: What would happen if physical property could be duplicated like an MP3 file? What if a poor society could prosper simply by making pirated copies of cars, clothes, or drugs that cure fatal illnesses? The answer Cory Doctorow offers in his novella After the […]

Absence

November 13, 2003

This short story focuses on the experiences of one man that finds himself unwilling to deal with the rest of humanity and his decision to leave society. After a time, strange things begin to happen in the skies above him, and he eventually finds himself wanting to reconnect with the people he had once abandoned. It was originally published in the inaugural issue of the Texas Texas University Honor’s College journal in 2003.