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• January 27, 2021

Welcome to part two of our look at how to write aliens so that they actually seem vaguely alien, adapted from my talk at Nine Worlds Geekfest far too many years ago. In the last part of this article we looked at the appearance of aliens, how we can arrange their bodies in ways that don’t necessarily conform to the “tube-with-two-limbs-at-each-end-and-a-head-at-one-end” model of alien …

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• January 6, 2021

I spend a lot of time thinking about aliens. What they might be like. Why we tell stories about them in the way they do. These blogs are adapted from a talk I gave at the much-missed Nine Worlds Geekfest in 2013. One of the main inspirations for that talk was Spock. Particularly, how the Old Spock from the original …

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• August 4, 2019

This is a shiny new blog that will soon be populated with all of the quality free content I can find time to make, there are plans my friends. Lots of plans. But until then, I thought I’d use this as a chance to link to some old and forgotten pieces of mine that I still remember fondly. So: Women …