Science in Writing: Hiatus

Before this blog I had never attempted blog writing so, naturally I chose this topic based upon the fact that I enjoyed science and writing, so it would be fun to integrate the two and therefore easy. I was wrong. This was a difficult topic to take on as a beginner because in order for [...]

Science in Writing: “The Night Face Up” by Julio Cortazar

On “The Night Face Up” by Julio Cortazar  I will come back to the Singularity idea soon enough. but not yet. I still want to read up on the subject more and have time for the thought to settle and for my opinions to form. In my current writing class we were asked to read [...]

Science in Writing: Singularity

The Singularity Discussion: Part One The Singularity concept has come up a few times in conversation this week and it’s an interest topic that I am aware of, but unfortunately do not know as much about it as I’d like. This theory was made popular by Ray Kurzweil who mentions his becoming aware of the [...]

Science in Writing: Future Humans

I find it quite intriguing that, as science fiction becomes more and more popular, it seems like good stuff still seems to escape the mainstream. Right now I’m actually watching a show called “Fringe,” which is highly underrated. This show just took a very interesting turn. This could very potentially be a spoiler by proximity [...]

Science in Writing: Hunger Games

The Hunger Games V. “The Lottery” So I’ve been hearing a lot about The Hunger Games being a ripoff of “The Running Man”, “Battle Royale” and “The Lottery”. Of the works I listed, “The Lottery” is the only I’ve ever read or really had extensive enough contact with to speak about. As sad as it [...]

Science in Writing: Walls of Flesh

I want to start by apologizing to my readers for my absence. I left for Spring break vacation on March 3rd before the sun came up and did not return until late the next Saturday. I had a great time not touched by the pressures of technology, unfortunately that meant no internet, calls, or emails. [...]

Science in Writing: “The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas”

 The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas, by Ursula K. LeGuin, is a short story set in a dystopian society. The story starts in the midst of the “Festival of Summer” and eventually turns into dark tale that exhibits the high cost of peace, abundance and the luxury of happiness. If you have not read [...]

Science in Writing #3

Science in poetry can be a wonderful and refreshing experience.  It’s something I experiment with oftentimes whenever I write poetry, but it’s not an entirely intentional process.  It’s just that when I write I pull from a pool of words that float through my mind regularly, and that is diction inevitably influenced by the more [...]

Science in Writing #2

“The greater one’s science, the deeper the sense of mystery.” ~Vladimir Nabokov I think that there is a lot of misconception about the value of science fiction in literature. I touched on this topic last week and I just want to follow up with more concrete evidence rather than just a generalization. When Margaret Atwood [...]

Science in Creative Writing

Technology and science are unavoidable truths that dominate our lives. For many of us, we wake up to the sound of an alarm clock and listen to music in the shower or later in the car as we drive to school or work where we text or compulsively check Facebook (even though we shouldn’t be) [...]