Write for Science in My Fiction!
Science in My Fiction wants you! More specifically, we want your articles. If you’re a fan of sci-fi or fantasy and you can’t help giving more than a passing thought to the real science behind warp drives and singing swords, then you might have what it takes to blog for SiMF. If you’re a scientist frustrated by speculative fiction which appears to thumb its nose at the basic principle of cause and effect, then you should hit us with your best shot.
From our ‘About’ page:
The purpose of the Science in My Fiction blog is to get science fiction and fantasy writers and fans thinking ahead of science again. Playful bloggers will take a look at recent scientific developments and extrapolate potential futures from them.
This is a fight for survival of the fiction. It’s time to seize culture and do science to it!
If you’re interested in writing for the blog, please choose a topic that is in some way relevant to speculative fiction, research it, and write an article about it. Remember to be playful – don’t take your subject or yourself too seriously or the internet will flame you alive and miss your point entirely – and remember to keep it real. We’re not interested in validating pseudo-science, but feel free to debunk myths or examine authentic scientific phenomena often mistaken for magic.
This should go without saying, but before you write your article, read several already posted to the blog to see for yourself what we expect. After you write it, take more than a moment to edit it. Typos happen, but rigor will deliver you far into our good graces.
Email your SiMF audition articles to: simf@crossedgenres.com
If you’re looking for a few bright ideas, try reading a little non-fiction:
Robotic Arm’s Big Flaw: Patients in Wheelchairs Say It’s ‘Too Easy’
City Living Helped Humans Evolve Immunity to Tuberculosis and Leprosy, New Research Suggests
Insight Into the Impacts of Too Much Communication
Making Bees Less Busy: Social Environment Changes Internal Clocks
Newly Created Material Resembles Cilia
I have written about some s-f topics on my blog: http://aspieplus.blogspot.com/ would any of those be good articles?
The post reviewing the Transhumanist webcomics is fun and will probably stir up some comments (plus it introduced me to a couple of new ones to read).
The ‘Alien Psychology by Diet’ post might also work, but I’d like to see if it could be developed more. It has a lot of interesting speculation, but I’d like to see some links to related science to round it out.
We can do a fairly direct reprint of the wecomics post, if you’d like. Otherwise, email me with another article and we’ll see what we can work out.
I think I’d actually have to add A Miracle of Science and Afterlife Blues to the webcomics review post. I’ll e-mail you that and the revised Alien Psychology by Diet post.
I’ll have to see if I can dig up and dust off the Mars research I did in college. There’s probably something in there that would make a great SiMF article.
Do so! And have a good look at the gorgeous pictures we’ve been taking of Mars lately, while you’re at it. Go here and search for Mars. It’s such a pretty desert.