Well spotted. Yep, 100%
These must be fairly late stage, but it's still surprising how much they resemble the finished models.
WRONG! They should continue to call it Space: 1999, and make it a historical drama.
I think the point is less how the period shown in Star Trek is going to be more like the present day, and more pointing out how little of the way we live now was foreseen in the 90s.
One possibility, as the tech becomes even more mobile and updating becomes even more easy, is that people's lives will become more of a performance. You see it already with people who are very quick to post photos of their nights out and leave statuses explaining what a great time they were having. The more of our lives become public, the higher the pressure to make what's public interesting.
I read "wasting time" as a pretty much value neutral term as it's used here.
When it comes to rebooting Star Wars characters, Noir Wars is still hands down my favourite. Google it. His version of R2D2 and C3PO is awesome.
I feel your pain. I miss Superman's pants.
There. I said it.
Look at the cover illustration again. He's pantsless.
My first published novel (Obligatory plug here: [www.tindalstreet.co.uk] or here for yanks [www.barnesandnoble.com] ) was also the first one where I really just went the make-it-up-as-you-go-along route. It started out as just a short story, but it kept going and (I know all writers sound wanky when they say this but) it kept surprising me. One of the major characters in the final book was originally supposed to be just a walk-on part, but then she kept turning up, I kept wanting to know more about why she was acting the way she was acting, and she became a crucial part of the plot.
These days I tend to be in a sort of middle ground- I don't write out any plot archs or anything like that, but I have a vague idea of the overall structure of the novel, who the characters are, and what sort of endgame I'm aiming at. But even then what I've got in my head at the start usually ends up different to what's on the page at the end.
You sir, are mad! Mad I tell you!
Now that's just madness!
I used to try this method when I was starting out, but the trouble is when you're writing the scene you really want to write is just around the corner. I'm actually a fan of the make-it-up-as-you-go-along school now. It means you have to make the scene you're writing now the candy bar scene.
Okay, it may not be very Spartacus of me- but I'm totally okay with a life of slavery if the alternative is a lethal injection. Especially if, you know, I don't get a say in the matter anyway.
Can't remember where I saw it, but there was a great quote somewhere, Superman: "How do you beat someone with kryptonite? Fly into orbit- blast them with laser vision."
I've been making a living working freelance for just under a year now, and the first thing you learn when you start freelancing is: Never EVER work on spec.
My God you're right! It's the Friendship Is Magic world!
Amen. Alan Moore built a career out of taking other people's creations and dicking about with them. He did this with an uncommon level of genius and created some truly amazing work. But it still makes him look like a dick when he complains about later artists doing the same thing, or tries to pretend that he was the last storyteller to ever have an original idea.
Paul Cornell used Gaiman's Death in Action Comics, and it was a good issue. The fact is, comics is not the artistic form to choose if you like having sacred cows.
