Category Archives: science/fiction

Captain Estar Likes Colony Drop

See if this sounds familiar: When I was a teenager, I spent a lot of time hanging out with the guys (not all actual scrotum-toters) from the comic shop. We had a great time, on the whole, though we got into the stuff you get into when you spend a lot of time with the [...]

Empress Irulan would like to tell you something

Want to see how to play Kodrek?

Hurricane Irene really set me back on finishing up Kodrek. But I managed to get a video of play up in time to get it into the Thousand Year game Challenge! Also excitingly, I’ll be printing up booklets and sending out games in the coming week!

Kodrek rules, version 1.0

The 1.0 rules of Kodrek are complete! I’ll be sending boards out to all the Kodrek-level Kickstarter backers just as soon as printing is complete. The timing means that I’ll also be entering the game in the 1000 Year Game Challenge. It’s got some stiff competition! Kodrek is a game with a funny background. It comes [...]

Readercon is how I wish all conventions were

Readercon is fucking rad. It’s a four-day literary science fiction convention in Burlington, MA (I didn’t know there was a Burlington in Massachusetts, either!), up route 128 where Autodesk and Adobe live. It’s the sun of the solar system of events that take place in Corey Doctrow’s Eastern Standard Tribe. It’s a miserable land of [...]

The Contactor Spooky Motion At A Distance

Want to see something neat? This is Scott Dunphy’s Contactor, Spooky Motion At A Distance. The game’s got some really neat features! The expedition has already failed once — they got to their intended colony, only to find it dead, with evidence that its inhabitants came from somewhere else! Does that mean that a Rectifier [...]

There’s No Such Thing as a Jellyfish

Still backlogged on actual articles, but also still agog at the wonder of the universe.

Cassini Mission

CASSINI MISSION from cabbas on Vimeo. I’ve got some stuff I’m writing, but I’ve got this backlog of amazing things I want to show everyone. This is one of them.  It’s made out of Cassini’s photos as it flew by Saturn and some of its moons by a “space fan”. There are some parts of [...]

Aliens Have Edges: The Storm Sailors of Relimeët

When the Contactor Temporary Reduction in Entropy arrived in orbit around Relimeët, its members found themselves in intense debate over the proper location for their elevator. The environment faced them with extreme hostility. Two stable Coriolis storms slowly orbited the equator-spanning ocean of the planet, spinning off unpredictable eddies of smaller hurricanes and ruling out [...]

Precision

PRECISION from Andrew James Sykes on Vimeo. Produced in 48 hours by students. The Future is awesome.