Star Trek vs Mad Max. Essay. 1100 words, 6-minute read. Good News Bad News By Ray Tabler I have good news and bad news. First the bad news. The robots are coming to take our jobs, enslave us, and maybe exterminate us. (Terminator, Westworld, The Matrix, Robopocalypse) The aliens are…
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Man v Machine
At war with clankers. Essay. 1400 words, 7-minute read. Man v Machine By Ray Tabler Experts say that a story has to have conflict. Conflict, the clash of opposing forces is the engine which drives the narrative forward. Keeps the reader from nodding off mid-paragraph too, if done right. There…
Trigger Words
Bookends of storytelling. Essay. 600 words, 3-minute read. Trigger Words By Ray Tabler Once upon a time… Those are magical words. Words to conjure with, to conjure within a listener’s head. Throughout the history of storytelling there have always been specific phrases to signal leaving this world and entering another….
Sci-Fi Spinoffs
More story to tell. Essay. 700 words, 4-minute read. Sci-Fi Spinoffs By Ray Tabler Television production must be a funny place. There seems to be a sort of schizophrenia involved. The same people who will roll the dice on a totally unproven concept are the ones who will cling tenaciously…