Sci-fi writer John Dill writes about his influences.
I was recently asked by a young published author about my writing techniques, influences and such. Specifically, if I did a lot of reading of science fiction and if so, how did that influence my own writing? Giles Blackley-Wiertelak, author of Closeburn Crossing, being the initiator of the questions.
He was referring to the science aspects of my recent release of the first two books of the Braxin King series. This series does include a good deal of theoretical science and philosophy.
I don't read as much science fiction as I'd like to. Time being the major obstacle. What I did during the writing process of The Braxin King was draw upon memories of times past when I was much more engaged in the theoretical aspect of actual science discussions among many theoretical physicists on message boards dedicated to such.
During that period of my life I became friends with a very smart physicist by the name of Johan Masraliez who has also written a book on his very astute theories, revolving around our universe and how it works. Not a fiction but a complete exposition of his SEC theory and all it entails. His theory even has a title very much like the Big Bang theory. He calls it the SEC theory for Scale Expanding Cosmos. It is very intriguing in that he has developed his equations consistent with Einstein's equations that posits our universe is expanding in scale, as opposed to just dimension.
What this does basically is include TIME in the expansion. It also provides a scientific expression for the "progression of time", something no other theoretical physicist has ever even tried to tackle. Thus far, his theory stands unrefuted. I happen to agree with him. I also added an additional attachment to his theory demonstrating his theory also accounts for the existence of multitudes of black holes, something that is readily confirmable via observation.
And I devised a workable hypothesis assigning "phases" to gravity. This, too has never been seriously considered by modern physics.
I say all of that to demonstrate I was not just a casual observer in these discussions but a very astute participant and contributor. However, not holding any pedigree in physics renders my contributions as nothing more than that. Maybe one day, when more progress is made in the study of this phenomenon, my theories will prove to be more than just theories.
And this is the source of the science in the very science fiction of The Braxin King. It came not via the conventional methodology of borrowing from other writers and expanding on what’s out there but came from actual discussions and participation with very real physicists in specific fields of inquiry about what’s out there…in real spacetime. This lends an aura of both originality and uniqueness to my writing that cannot be captured otherwise.
I hope this helps other writers understand there are many avenues of influence a writer may draw upon when doing fiction. Reading other’s books within the same genre being only one such avenue or resource. A great deal of modern physics discussion, experimentation and submission for peer review cannot help but come across to the general public as science fiction. Some of it is. But occasionally some of it proves out to be science reality.
I was recently asked by a young published author about my writing techniques, influences and such. Specifically, if I did a lot of reading of science fiction and if so, how did that influence my own writing? Giles Blackley-Wiertelak, author of Closeburn Crossing, being the initiator of the questions.
He was referring to the science aspects of my recent release of the first two books of the Braxin King series. This series does include a good deal of theoretical science and philosophy.
I don't read as much science fiction as I'd like to. Time being the major obstacle. What I did during the writing process of The Braxin King was draw upon memories of times past when I was much more engaged in the theoretical aspect of actual science discussions among many theoretical physicists on message boards dedicated to such.
During that period of my life I became friends with a very smart physicist by the name of Johan Masraliez who has also written a book on his very astute theories, revolving around our universe and how it works. Not a fiction but a complete exposition of his SEC theory and all it entails. His theory even has a title very much like the Big Bang theory. He calls it the SEC theory for Scale Expanding Cosmos. It is very intriguing in that he has developed his equations consistent with Einstein's equations that posits our universe is expanding in scale, as opposed to just dimension.
What this does basically is include TIME in the expansion. It also provides a scientific expression for the "progression of time", something no other theoretical physicist has ever even tried to tackle. Thus far, his theory stands unrefuted. I happen to agree with him. I also added an additional attachment to his theory demonstrating his theory also accounts for the existence of multitudes of black holes, something that is readily confirmable via observation.
And I devised a workable hypothesis assigning "phases" to gravity. This, too has never been seriously considered by modern physics.
I say all of that to demonstrate I was not just a casual observer in these discussions but a very astute participant and contributor. However, not holding any pedigree in physics renders my contributions as nothing more than that. Maybe one day, when more progress is made in the study of this phenomenon, my theories will prove to be more than just theories.
And this is the source of the science in the very science fiction of The Braxin King. It came not via the conventional methodology of borrowing from other writers and expanding on what’s out there but came from actual discussions and participation with very real physicists in specific fields of inquiry about what’s out there…in real spacetime. This lends an aura of both originality and uniqueness to my writing that cannot be captured otherwise.
I hope this helps other writers understand there are many avenues of influence a writer may draw upon when doing fiction. Reading other’s books within the same genre being only one such avenue or resource. A great deal of modern physics discussion, experimentation and submission for peer review cannot help but come across to the general public as science fiction. Some of it is. But occasionally some of it proves out to be science reality.