Science Fiction Prototyping. Brian David Johnson

Science Fiction Prototyping - Brian David Johnson


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Alan Moore, Steven Schneider, Nathan Shedroff, Chris Noessell, Mary Shelley, Alan Stelle, H.G. Wells and Paula Zizzi.

      Over the years SF prototyping has seen the support of some incredible people and I don’t think we would have made it this far without them: Justin Rattner, Tadayoshi Kohno, Sumi Helal, Duckki Lee, Wolfgang Minker, Michael Weber, Hani Hagras, Achilles D. Kameas, Juan Carlos Augusto, Jeannette Chin, Don Wallace, April Miller, Antonio Tatum, Jim Olsen, Klaus Obermaier, Sean Hanna, Darrin Johnson and Vernor Vinge.

      I want acknowledge the University of Washington and Professor Sarah Perez-Kriz’s “Science Fiction Prototyping” class for piloting this book and developing some thoughtful and engaging SF prototypes.

      Thanks to Mike Morgan for his courage to publish this book and his enthusiasm for its rather unconventional subject matter.

      Sandy Winkelman takes my words and turns them into not just pictures but whole worlds—my collaboration with him has been incredibly important to me and I could never thank him enough 25.

      Contents

       Preface

       Foreword

       Epilogue

       Dedication

       Acknowledgments

       1. The Future Is in Your Hands

       WarGames as an SF Prototype

       The Future Is in Your Hands

       “Shall We Play a Game?”: What You Can Expect from This Book

       2. Religious Robots and Runaway Were-Tigers: A Brief Overview of the Science and the Fiction that Went Into Two SF Prototypes

       What Is a Prototype?

       Two Examples of SF Prototypes

       Religious Robots: Trouble at the Piazzi Mine

       Runaway Were-Tigers

       3. How to Build Your Own SF Prototype in Five Steps or Less

       The Outline

       The Five Steps

       Step 1: Pick Your Science and Build Your World

       Step 2: The Scientific Inflection Point

       Step 3: Ramifications of the Science on People

       Step 4: The Human Inflection Point

       Step 5: What Did We Learn?

       Writing the Outline in Five Easy Steps: An Example of Nebulous Mechanisms

       What If…

       4. I, Robot: From Asimov to Doctorow: Exploring Short Fiction as an SF Prototype and a Conversation With Cory Doctorow

       The Teenager and Her Monster

       When Science Came to Science Fiction

       Beyond the Future

       A Conversation with Cory Doctorow

       The Link Between Science and Science Fiction

       Doctorow and the Robots

       It Is a Process, Not a Prediction

       Turning Your Outline Into Short Story SF Prototype

       5. The Men in the Moon: Exploring Movies as an SF Prototype and a Conversation with Sidney Perkowitz

       A Music Hall Depiction of Space

       A Computer Goes Crazy in Deep Space

       A Scientist Who Writes about Hollywood Science

       The Men in the Moon: The Motion Picture Moon as an SF Prototype

       Movies as SF Prototypes

       Turning Your Outline Into Short Film SF Prototype

       Writing the Script

       Making the Short Film

       6. Science in the Gutters: Exploring Comics as an SF Prototype and a Conversation With Chris Warner

       What Is a Comic?

       How Science Saved Comic Books

       A Conversation With Chris Warner

       How to Tell a Comic Book Story

       Science in


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