The online home of aspiring fantasy & scifi author Martin Stellinga
Do you like the starry sky picture with this post? Guess what, it’s a generated image. I’ve repeatedly needed cool pictures of stars, and real ones are often copyrighted. So I cobbled some software together to generate starscapes. Have a go if you want.
Continue reading “Generating a Starscape”
You know what would happen if you made a real Death Star? And how many humans do you need to grow in tubes to power a robot society like in the Matrix? Stories can function perfectly well without proper math. However, making the correct calculations can enrich stories a lot.
Continue reading “Writing With the Right Math”
Do you have Siri on your iPhone, or Google Assistant on your Samsung Galaxy? You may even have a Google Home or Amazon Alexa in your living room. Machine learning at its best!
Ever wonder who else is listening in?
Continue reading “The Voice of Unreason”
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is here! It’s the Eleventh movie in the franchise — thirteenth if you count the Ewok movies, but let’s not.
I watched it, and… well, I have things to say, of course.
Continue reading “The Rise of Skywalker”
Have you ever heard of a calendrical heresy? Probably not, because it’s not really a thing, until you read Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee.
Continue reading “Review: Ninefox Gambit”