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My "Hail Mary" Complex

I was genuinely excited to read Andy Weir’s highly-acclaimed Hail Mary, hoping for inspiration on improving the writing, structure and marketability of my own speculative work, The Cx Trilogy. My positive outlook waned after a few pages. It wasn’t just the undeveloped writing nor the caricatured characters – much of which seem at first/second draft level – but more the lack of an engaging…

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Chat GPT Writes Me a Pitch for "The Cx Trilogy"

Hey Chat GPT, write a speculative science fiction pitch centering on an intergenerational starship journey and incorporates aspects of humanity such as greed and sexuality.

Hey Chat GPT, write a speculative science fiction pitch centering on an intergenerational starship journey and incorporates aspects of humanity such as greed and sexuality. Chat GPT: In the far future, a massive intergenerational starship, the USS Hope, is built to take a small group of humans on a centuries-long journey to a distant planet. As the ship sets off, the human passengers are faced…

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Research for Cx Trilogy: Dark Matter Propulsion

Research for Cx Trilogy: Dark Matter Propulsion. The power source for an intergenerational space is a matter of great conjecture because the technology does not exist as of yet.

The power source for an intergenerational space is a matter of great conjecture because the technology does not exist as of yet. The spaceship in The Cx Trilogy, Aqaara, is powered by Dante, an immense engine – the size of a concert hall – made up of a series of collider chambers which process dark matter during flight. The process is highly unstable and requires a reconfiguration every three…

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Research for The Cx Trilogy: Alloys and Polymers

Research for The Cx Trilogy: Alloys and Polymers. The intergenerational ship, Aqaara, is composed primarily of anorthite, a high-grade mineral found in abundance on the moon.

Researching speculative fiction is a wide open thing, all about imagining a future far beyond the here and now. As remarkable as the SpaceX launches have been, they are well short of my vision in The Cx Trilogy of an intergenerational journey to a planet light years away. Aqaara is constructed in outer space, specifically in the Lagrangian orbit between the moon and Earth, thus eliminating the…

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World Building II: Establishing Theme

World Building II: Establishing Theme. Leaving everything we know for a complete unknown remains frightfully undeveloped. The emphasis is on ingenuity and determination rather than the inevitable angst and despair once Earth Out of View Syndrome sets in.

The Cx Trilogy is the simple story of leaving this planet. As common as this idea might be in contemporary science fiction – including everything from Star Trek & Star Wars franchises to The Martian and Ad Astra– the central idea of abandonment, leaving everything that we know for a complete unknown, remains frightfully undeveloped. In other words, these films emphasize ingenuity and…

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The Impossible World of World Building

The Impossible World of World Building. The crux of the speculative/sci-fi genre is something beyond what we live in today. And it isn’t just a matter of a propping up a couple of rocket ships and some characters walking about in space suits.

World building can be a personal writing hell. I hate that feeling because I love the idea of world building. To my thinking, what could be more wide open than building a new world? Anything is possible. It’s just a matter of picking and choosing and away you go! But it isn’t. Not for me anyway. While I might have the germ of an idea – such as using dark matter to fuel an inter-generational…

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