Ekphrastic

TLDR: Not in your lifetime. People love the concept of animals that can talk like us, walk like us.  The late 1800s and early 1900s are rich in the concept of animals with human level intelligence.  Surgery on the brain or a mix of chemicals have the power to anthropomorphize the...

Will we prevent our bodies from aging?  TLDR: Yes Pre-1900s Immortality goes back much further than most other conjectures of science fiction writers.  There are many instances of immortality in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds.  However, the only consistent trend we have is one of a mystical sort.  A picture...

Meet George Jetson. Will we fly to work? TDLR: Yes.   We have no shortage of flying cars in our literature and especially in our movies and television. It is a topic approachable to nearly everyone as they sit in gridlock traffic or take a four hour drive to the...

Will the next Shakespeare dream of Electronic Sheep? TLDR: Yes. Artificial intelligence covers a broad range of ideas, but at its essence, we are most intrigued by how they might replace human beings.  What makes a human being a human being? We will let you decide.  This post will be...

You’re minding your own half-alien half-machine coughing-up-a-storm business when it happens. You’re walking the rows, droideka are chill’n, everything’s good – all “roger roger” and lightsabers under your cloak before this Graggonspeak article force jumps from the damn ceiling and tosses you a casual, “Hello there” before things get “so...

Can you hear me now? Will we experience instant communication in our lifetime?  TLDR: No. Our major introduction to faster than light communication begins in the 50s and 60s. Often our authors provide a theoretical physics or even a philosophical explanation on how a device sends messages across the universe...

Apologies for March going up in April! Instead of our normal SFF short fiction and news chatter this month, we’re sharing an interview I did with Shannon A. Thompson in issue #139/Winter 2020! Things got busier than usual for my household these last few weeks. Graggon Keep may be finding...

From Space & Time, Spring #140