Perhaps it is a good idea to tell you what’s my current status with writing the three stories I mentioned before. Anyway, everything I have written is pretty alpha and unpolished. It might be easier for me to write in German, because I live in Germany, but I have found that the English language is much better suited for writing singularity related fiction (like Orion’s Arm for example), because it’s a bit easier to invent new words for the entities [ Read More ]
Actually, I spend much more time at “world-building” than at writing stories. I like inventing possible worlds that might give the impression that they could really exist somewhere out there. The third story I mention here also plays in the Our Ascent world, but some time after the events in Storytellers’ Chronicles. It’s the first story where I thought “yeah, this is the real stuff!” If I had to invent a genre for this kind of fiction, I would call [ Read More ]
The next story I’m working on plays in the world I call Our Ascent (I own the domain ourascent.com, which also links to this blog). It’s the world I’ve designed to the greatest detail of all my science fiction scenarios. Essentially, Storytellers’ Chronicles is supposed to become a series of short stories that depict the rather everyday life in a quite utopic supercivilization. Storytellers’ Chronicles Some years after the Foundation the solar system Origis is completely colonized by the supercivilization [ Read More ]
There’s the big problem that I have great difficulties at finishing my stories. So, what I have right now are some started projects, for which I provide intro texts, at first. Here’s the first one: Exaltation Dominance Day 1: Really weird things happen and people become happier for no apparent reason. Day 2: Foreshadowed by unusual dreams, many people develop the ability to read the emotions of other humans and animals. Reports about miracle cures of virtually all diseases sweep [ Read More ]
