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The Backrooms: Where Reality Frays at the Edges
Have you ever walked into an unfamiliar building—maybe an empty office, an eerily silent shopping mall, a long, fluorescent-lit...

Jen
5 days ago4 min read
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How Science Fiction Helps Us Make Sense of the World
The world is moving fast—social shifts, political upheaval, technology advancing at a speed we can barely keep up with. It’s a lot. And...

Jen
Mar 284 min read
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Unconventional World-Building Techniques to Elevate Your Science Fiction
World-building is the beating heart of science fiction—the thing that takes a story from an idea to something vast and immersive. It’s...

Jen
Mar 24 min read
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Why Are We So Obsessed with Apocalypses?
Recently, astronomers spotted an asteroid—2024 YR4—on a trajectory that brings it uncomfortably close to Earth in 2032 . Odds of impact?...

Jen
Feb 184 min read
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Why We Keep Coming Back to Dystopian Fiction
Dystopian fiction has been around for a long time, and for good reason. It takes everything we fear—loss of freedom, unchecked power,...

Jen
Jan 5, 20245 min read
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Near-Future Technologies
Do you ever wonder what mind-blowing technologies we'll have available to us in the future? I do all the time. I think it's because I...

Jen
Oct 19, 20233 min read
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![[Flash Fiction] Melancholic Moons | Sci-Fi | 153 words](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_e0e257a85ac84e9992eac3cb4d8fd54a~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/nsplsh_e0e257a85ac84e9992eac3cb4d8fd54a~mv2.webp)
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[Flash Fiction] Melancholic Moons | Sci-Fi | 153 words
Title: Melancholic Moons Genre: Sci-Fi Word Count: 153 words. Notes: You can find more of my published fiction, as well as free fiction,...

Jen
Oct 11, 20231 min read
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How Has Science-Fiction Been Right?
This is a follow-up post to my previous, How Has Science-Fiction Been Wrong? While not all speculative ideas have materialised, there are...

Jen
Sep 8, 20233 min read
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How Has Science-Fiction Been Wrong?
Despite its imaginative and visionary nature, science-fiction has often been proven wrong in its predictions of future technology and our...

Jen
Aug 29, 20234 min read
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![[Short Story] The Machinists' Boy | YA Sci-Fi | 4,200 Words](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81d766_3127bbae5f594ce0a121f9413e106ab4~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/81d766_3127bbae5f594ce0a121f9413e106ab4~mv2.webp)
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[Short Story] The Machinists' Boy | YA Sci-Fi | 4,200 Words
I have a short YA story called The Machinists’ Boy out in Youth Imagination Magazine, issue 39. It’s free to read online. I’m so thrilled...

Jen
Aug 3, 20221 min read
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