• Cecelia Payne

    One thing about writing in the SF genre is the challenge of constraining your speculations by what known science says is possible, or if you really want to loosen up, what might be possible. To do that, you have to get into the actual science quite a bit to make sure you know where the

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  • In the Beginning…

    Since this is the first of many blog posts about writing generally, and science fiction particularly, perhaps it’s appropriate to start at my beginning with the genre. Although I’m sure there were other books before, the first sci-fi novel that I remember to this day as making a deep impression on me is Andre Norton’s Daybreak:

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  • WELCOME!

    Welcome to the Robert Wack Author web site, very much a work in progress. As I continue building this out, I’ll update you on upcoming publications, some thoughts on the writing life, and other interesting nuggets about science fiction, history, culture and why we do this (reading, writing, imagining). A quick note about AI: I

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