Ekphrastic

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

From Space & Time, Spring #140

From Space & Time, Spring #140

Will robots be serving us OJ and French Toast in our lifetime? TLDR: Yes. Most often a writer’s fascination with robots centers around their programming rules or the concept of what it means to be human.  Before we get anywhere near those philosophical questions, we must first conquer the challenges...