My guest post just went live on the RMFW site!
http://rmfw.org/science-fictions-future-past/
From the post:
Sci-fi’s best ideas are in the past. Wait! Before you barrage me with indignant objections, I’m going to claim this idea is way less impertinent—or defeatist—than it sounds.
Where do sci-fi plot concepts come from? From everywhere, you say, my sources of inspiration are varied and without bound! Okay, sure, the kernels have many sources, but I think we can agree on a few broad trends. Or agree to disagree. Or something. Here’s a few of them…
Those folks run one hell of a con, September can’t get arrive early enough.