ProfSciFi

🇨🇦 Computer scientist @DrPaulRalph answers questions about technology for #WritingCommunity and dabbles in #fiction. DMs for consulting requests only please.

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Hi new followers! Here’s the deal: I’m here to help #WritingCommnunity get their facts straight about software and tech. Public questions answered free. Confidential fact checking for a fee.

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On point allegory from @scalzi's The Last Emprox: "a civilization that was designed to keep the rich as rich as possible and the poor from actively starving so they wouldn't think to rise up and behead the rich."

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Out for a run on New Years Eve, while passing through a stand of white birch, I came upon a white rabbit. If you don't hear from me for a while, assume I'm lost in a @neilhimself story.

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My friend wrote this and it's great. It's just such a different setting for a fantasy story.

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Instead of a police precinct, the next season of Brooklyn 99 should be about:

[🐦 Rekha Valliappan 🍃 @silicasun]

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What do you get when you combine a ghost ship, a sea monster, a horde of pirates, an impossible riddle and three unhappy parrots? PAKAWK the Pirate Parrot is a swashbuckling #PB about colonialism, materialism and the pets we can’t have. #PitMad

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Every pirate has a pet parrot. But where do these parrots come from and what happens when they're unhappy?

PAKAWK the Pirate Parrot is a school age #PB about colonialism, materialism and mutinous parrots. #PitMad #querying

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The @OuterWorlds is the best western RPG in a decade. That is all.

[Devon ☀️ @devonzuegel]

"Good science fiction predicts not the automobile but the traffic jam."

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This free online tool will generate all kinds of town maps: https://t.co/8qCiD3iR9w

[D. S. G. Burke @DSGBurke]

Heya #fantasy and #travelwriters—do you draw your own maps? Or do you work with professionals?
My coming of age/travel memoir needs maps and I’m thinking of trying my hand.
Any tips?
Also, please share your #maps! #WritingCommunity

[Strange Worlds of Jason Kilgore - Author @WorldsKilgore]

I need opinions: Should a writer have a different pen name for each genre?

Please comment on why you voted the way you do...

#writingcommunity #amwriting #writing

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If your campground has wifi, is that a feature or a bug?

[Marcus Vance 🗡 @MarcusCVance]

I've been given an important task from my wife, #writingcommunity and #readingcommunity.

What would be some good sci-fi/fantasy books to introduce someone 12-13yo to the genre?

They've already read Harry Potter, and I want to include some options with "strong" female characters

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If there’s a system in the first act, some had better be caught gaming it in the third act. (Apologies to Chekhov and his gun.)

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A lot more people would buy hybrid cars if manufacturers had to report realistic fuel consumption numbers.

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@MCJRobert

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Can everyone please stop portraying programmers as pale, malnourished greasy weirdos? I only know a couple of those and the other programmers think they’re weird too.

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Twitter pro-tip: asking people to retweet something makes them less likely to do so. It’s a manifestation of a cognitive bias called “reactance”.

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One thing you don’t see enough in #sf is people who’ve given up tech for a simpler life. The more complicated our lives get, the greater the appeal of a rural log cabin.

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The toughest thing to write has to be an application for promotion. “Look at me! I am great! Pay me more!”