Rockets, UFO’s
Lasers, robots, aliens
Unexplored planets
Rockets, UFO’s
Lasers, robots, aliens
Unexplored planets
Positronic Brain
The Three Laws of Robotics
Speedy’s Runaround
There’s no other way
But through the asteroid belt
Hold on to your hats!
Into the unknown
How will we be welcomed by
Those who call this ‘home’?
First contact manners
When faced with twelve tentacles
Which one do you shake?
Control panels flash
Incoming hostility
Ready the lasers
A lunar landscape
Tire-track scarred topography
A search for answers
So, with having Science-Fictional tendencies and a love of haiku, it was a revelatory moment when, a few months ago I stumbled upon the wonder that is the ‘Scifaiku’. The genius portmanteau which embraces two of my life’s passions. So, I thought I would give it a go as it seems a bit easier than trying to complete the 18,000 word dissertation I should be doing instead… I will try to do one a week.
Moving Day
Inaugural crew
Thrusters fire as bridges burn
Is there life on Mars?
I am rapidly approaching deadline day for my MA in Creative Writing and have found myself researching, in depth, some of the strangest things.
I am currently writing the good old ‘first novel’, the first 15,000 words of which will form part of my dissertation. Despite it being a science fiction piece I have spent several hours googling the following things:
A fellow student recently told me that she had spent a full day researching Victorian underwear.
So, as well as working towards finally getting the first draft complete, I feel I can now hold my own in the world’s strangest conversation.
Elly Blue (previously) writes, “Will toilet paper be a valuable commodity after society collapses? Who will help you with your reproductive rights in the coming patriarchal dystopia? Why are humans so obsessed with gender? Are bots human? These questions and many more are answered with bicycles (and feminism!) in the eleven stories found in Bikes […]