Science Fiction Story Fuel from Andy Zach author of Zombie Turkeys

What is Science Fiction Story Fuel? The fuel is science. I read science and technology all the time. I’ve loved science and technology since elementary school. In this blog post, I share my Science Fiction Story Fuel articles from the last couple of weeks. Let’s begin with:

I grew up reading Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov. Did you know Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of YA novels?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The video shows the moon in great detail, rather like Heinlein’s book, Have Spacesuit, Will Travel, which I read in 2nd or 3rd grade.

Heinlein’s cover art wasn’t too far from the final lunar excursion suit:

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Aside from the cool artistry, the facts behind the story are great: a rogue planet, 12.5 times larger than Jupiter, wandering between the stars. A rogue planet is one that doesn’t orbit a sun. A gaseous planet that large is the largest it can be and still be called a planet. At thirteen times the size of Jupiter, the gravitic pressure is great enough to begin fusion. Then the planet becomes a star, a brown dwarf, barely glowing.

Then we have this:

The commercialization of space travel is near and dear to my heart. Due to the influence of the libertarian Heinlein, I’ve always felt businesses had to get into space for the technology to really “take off”. Now it’s happening and we may see substantial progress over the next twenty years.

The last bit of science fiction story fuel is:

Every hard science fiction novel should push the current technology into the future. Each author has had good predictions:

Heinlein: waldos, robotic hands; social chaos beginning in the 90s; recreational space travel; commercialization of space technology.

Arthur C. Clarke: geosynchronous satellites; a space station docking with earth launched rockets

Isaac Asimov: statistics used to predict the future; interstellar spacecraft

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