M.G. Herron
Science Fiction Author in Austin, TX
Not that the money is virtual—the money is all too real. Criminals have turned to loot boxes in video games as a way to wash money they don’t want the government to know about.
Thanks to a loophole in Counter Strike: Global Offensive, “nearly all” key purchases for loot boxes within the game have been used for money laundering, reports Vice.
This is the story seed for every space opera novel ever written, from George Lucas’ Star Wars to the milieu of Iain Banks’ Culture novels. (Guess what I’m reading right now.) How many of these exoplanets are actually habitable? How many are orbited by habitable moons?
In January 2018, divers discovered the world’s largest underwater cave system in Mexico. Even more exciting? They believe it is filled with Mayan mysteries.
I was hooked to YouTube when SpaceX went live the other day to announce the first commercial passenger in human history to book a trip around the moon.
Not long ago, the entire world was inspired by a race to reach the moon. Now, we can be inspired again! Humanity is once again reaching for the stars.
Todos son bienvenidos. All are welcome. Or all should be. The news coming from Trump’s FCC puppet proposing to end Net Neutrality are not unexpected, but they are still infuriating. The internet is a great leveler, an innovation machine, an infinite resource, a tool, and a way to stay connected. It has changed my life, […]
The other design I needed to research for The Alien Element is what a realistic lunar dome might look like and be made out of. You know the Jetson’s style glass dome, straight out of the sci-fi imagination of 1950s America? That’s where I started when I first began to imagine what a lunar dome […]
When I decided to rejig the ending of The Alien Element, a lunar nuclear reactor became important to the plot. I’d planned this from the beginning, but I was hazy on specifics. Realizing I needed to backfill some of the details in the book, and wanting to make sure that it’s as realistic and technically accurate as […]
In the summer of 2014, I visited the the Maya city of Chichen Itza in Mexico, and that trip inspired parts of my scifi thriller novel, The Auriga Project.
Check out BBC’s timeline of the far future, and consider how it can be useful for a scifi writer contemplating story ideas. Even a writer with a sinus infection.
