Articles and Guest Posts
Ten Things I’ve Learned Since Having a Book Published by Madeline Dyer
So, a few days ago I celebrated the one year anniversary for the publication of my debut novel, UNTAMED (Prizm Books, May 2015). During that year, I’ve learned a whole bunch of things and thought I’d share ten of them here with you. 1: Not everyone...
A-Z Blogging challenge: U is for… Utopia
Utopian Society A Utopia is a perfect, idealistic society, the opposition to a dystopian environment. A world where 'inhabitants exist under seemingly perfect conditions [...] utopian and utopianism are words used to denote visionary reform that tends to be impossibly...
A-Z Blogging Challenge: T is for… Time travel
I am a massive - massive - fan of time travel. Forwards or backwards, it matters not. I love the whole concept of time travel, whether this is achieved through self-hypnosis, a machine, an object, a portal, an accident or a slip through time itself is irrelevant....
A-Z Blogging challenge: S is for… Spaceships
Spaceships With all the discussion on this blog about asteroids, space and futurology, I thought it might be wise to take a look at how we're going to travel to all these wonderful places within the universe - be it through choice or necessity The wonderful thing...
A-Z Blogging challenge: R is for… Robotics
Robotics Advancement in science and technology in our present day lives makes robotics within science fiction all the more real - whether it's a child toy, an android or an evil legion of robots taking over the planet (think Terminator). For this blog post I shall...
A-Z Blogging Challenge: Q is for… Quasars
Quasars Quasars are defined as 'an astronomical entity that emits incredibly high levels of electromagnetic radiation (including light). The amount of energy emitted by a quasar dwarfs even the brightest stars,' (About.com) Believed to have formed when matter drawn...
A-Z Blogging Challenge: P is for… Planets.
Planets I've written a blog post on Asteroids, and briefly touched on Jupiter, so now it's time to stretch a little further afield and talk about the multitude of planets existing within and beyond our solar syste Planets, both real and imagined, are of huge...
A to Z Blogging: O is for… Online Worlds
Online Worlds O was a tricky letter to find a theme for and I swear I'm not cheating. 'Online Worlds' is a theme in its own right according to the Encyclopedia of Science fiction, not only that, but I've had the pleasure of reading a couple of books using this very...
A to Z Blogging challenge: N is for… Nuclear War
Nuclear War (and the ensuing 'winter') I was watching a program a while back about adverts that used to appear on our television screens during the nineteen-seventies. One advert was produced by the UK government and carried the slogan 'Protect and Survive.' I had...
Blogging A-Z: M is for… Military Scifi
Military Sci-Fi As far as I can gather (as this is one of my least favourite sub-genres of science-fiction) Military Sci-Fi uses futuristic technology and weapons, often to negotiate fights with alien civilisations, or conduct battles in space, although I've read...
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