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You’ve landed on the website of Nina Munteanu, internationally published Canadian SF author and ecologist. Nina is living her dream of the writing life! She is currently putting the finishing touches on her next science fiction novel. And if you’re lucky, you might catch her at one of her writing workshops where she coaches great [...]
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The Writing Life
January 23rd, 2010 · 9 Comments
Tags: Darwin's Paradox · SF · SF writer · The Alien Next Door · Uncategorized · books · literature · published author · publishing · reading · sci-fi · science fiction · science fiction and fantasy · scifi · sf author · sf girl · writers · writing · writing tips
Star Wars, Our 20th Century Myth
July 21st, 2008 · 15 Comments
Over twenty-five years after the first Star Wars motion picture blasted its way through our movie screens, the saga continues to live strongly in literature and cinema. To date, six films and three animated series for television were made, with a live-action series and a 3D CGI animated series in pre-production as well as a [...]
Tags: Star Wars · book review · books · fantasy · film review · motion pictures · myth · science fiction
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
July 7th, 2008 · 5 Comments
When Paramount Pictures released the retro science-fiction adventure film, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, September of 2004, it had been much anticipated since June when it was first intended to hit theatres. Was the delay, due to director, Kerry Conran’s additional tweaking of this virtually total CGI movie, worth it? You bet your [...]
Tags: Angelina Jolie · CGI · Gwyneth Paltrow · Jude Law · Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow · movie review · movies · recursive fiction · retro-fiction · review · science fiction
Interesting Areas of Scientific Research
June 28th, 2008 · 8 Comments
Recently, I was asked by JP Frantz at SF Signal to respond to an interesting question on their forum, “MIND MELD: Interesting Areas of Scientific Research”. The editors said,
“For many of us, one of the main interests of science fiction is it’s use of science as part of the story. There’s nothing quite like reading [...]
Tags: SF Signal · science · science fiction · scientific research
Oryx & Crake–Book Review
June 23rd, 2008 · 6 Comments
Margaret Atwood’s Booker Award nominee, “Oryx and Crake” is a sharp-edged, dark contemplative essay on the premise of where the myopia of greed, power and obsession with “self-image” and its outstripping of ethics and morality may take us. Replete with sordid subject matter and unlikeable but complex characters, Atwood’s gloomy post-apocalyptic tale follows the slow [...]
Tags: Margaret Atwood · Oryx and Crake · book review · books · dark SF · dystopian · literature · review · science fiction · speculative fiction