There’s a somewhat silly question (ok maybe not so silly for some) that pops up in writer’s interviews. And that’s the question of writer’s block. I’ve not used it in any of our author interviews but as an experiment I’ve put together a mini-Brain Parade on the topic:
Do you get “writer’s block”? And if so […]

We’re lining up a new of futurism Brain Parades this November and we’re kicking it off with a series of Pet predictions.
Putting aside a comprehensive vision of the future, do you have a single “pet prediction” of something that you think might happen over the next decade or two?

The weather was crap today so […]

This is the second parter of a Brain Parade we ran back in September. Just to refresh your memory here’s the question:
Is the Enlightenment ideal on the rocks or is it merely a bit shaken?
The range of responses we’ve had to this one ranging on this one partly because the Enlightenment is also joined at […]

Apologies for the lack of Brain Parades lately. I allowed myself to fall behind before I went away to Spain and Rosie has been buried under work with school. I’m currently working on compiling a dozen Brain Parades but it’s going to be at least another week before any of them are finnished.
I do have […]

The third season of Battlestar Galactica has featured characters using suicide bomber tactics, using temples to hide weapons and generally behaving like the Enemies of Freedom. This is pretty incendiary stuff but as near as I can tell the fans are lapping it up just fine.
On the other hand a BBC show Spooks had […]

New SF novelist on the block and one of my favourite blogging authors David Louis Edelman caught my attention with a frivolous post 20 Reasons Why I Want to Live in a Cheesy SF Dome City. He’s talking about Logan’s Run style Domed Cities here, probably the best of the cheesey SF movie Domed […]