I recently caught the movie Jumper on cable (2008) — a bit of Hollywood fluff. One of those movies you tell people to wait for it to come out on DVD. Then out of curiosity, I picked up the novel used as the basis for the movie screenplay, Jumper by Steven Gould. Actually, the word […]
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Avoid the Trope Cliche
Posted: 23rd February 2012 by Richard Hacker in Creativity, Novel, Science Fiction, Teleportation, TropesTags: author, blog, books, creativity, fiction, novel, Richard Hacker, sci-fi, teleportation, trope, writer, writing
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Book Review: Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo
Posted: 7th October 2011 by Richard Hacker in Book Review, Crime, ThrillerTags: author, blogging, book review, books, crime, fiction, french, Izzo, novel, Richard Hacker, thriller
Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is the first in a trilogy set in Marseilles. Izzo’s Marseilles takes the city off my list of places to visit. The town, dark, gritty, with a raging undercurrent of bigotry, however, provides fertile soil for a crime thriller. A flawed protagonist moves […]
Is Your Writing Sculpture or Skupper?
Posted: 23rd May 2011 by Richard Hacker in UncategorizedTags: author, blog, books, creativity, fiction, novels, Richard Hacker, writer, writing
Sol LeWitt American, born 1928 Four-Sided Pyramid, 1999 I visited Washington DC last week and, as usual, took the opportunity to visit the Mall and some of my favorite museums: The American History Museum, Air and Space Museum, Museum of Art and a stroll through the Museum of Art Sculpture Garden. A mom with her […]
Time Travel Nostalgia
Posted: 16th May 2011 by Richard Hacker in Time TravelTags: absurd, adventure, author, bizarre, blogger, blogging, blogs, books, contradiction, Facebook, fiction, funny, future, humor, multiple realities, novels, paradox, public speaking, reality, Richard Hacker, science fiction, Shaper, space, time, time travel, Twitter, writer
Ah, Time Travel! That magical staple of science fiction. As I ponder my own path through the science fiction landscape, one recurring plot device would have to be time travel. The following is a list of the formative time travel plots, not comprehensive at all and not necessarily in order of quality, but more chronologically that I encountered growing up.
