Creating worlds in word and art and exploring the universe in which we exist.
This is my entry for April's Blog Battle - the theme or word for this month is Heart. Professor Rakseth stood back and looked through the huge glass panels with pride at the great metal circle. All this life his work had led to this, the theories he came up with as a young man... Continue Reading →
On the back of my post on Uniforms and Space Suits it strikes me that there's something really Sci-Fi is missing or hasn't thought of - Robotics and automation. Why is this? Basically humans are not meant to live in space there really are very few environments that are so inhospitable to us. That's why... Continue Reading →
I've not been jumping on my concepts for a little while but as I'm back into it again I thought I would jump into space suits and uniforms / space age clothing and what I've been thinking about it all.We've all seem the Moon landings and various astronauts dossing about on ISS and know pretty... Continue Reading →
Story Basis Andy Weir's latest novel Artemis looks at first to be a step back from his first novel The Martian. Set on the Moon rather than Mars, inside a moon base (Artemis) with the protagonist being a young woman who is trouble and doesn't really amount to much in life on Artemis.When I initially... Continue Reading →
SOL677 Olympus Colony:“Colony Log Commander James O’Neill: It's been 7 sols since the news was delivered, in only twelve days Earth and everyone on it will cease to exist. Well the Earth might still be there, but no people, no oceans, no... nothing that made it home for us humans. For me." O'Neill paused for... Continue Reading →
One aspect of science fiction that I think really needs looking at in many different stories and universes is the command structure. What do I mean by this? Surely any advanced space faring species would have a command structure that would reflect the society that they come from? Sure, but why does it have to... Continue Reading →
For those of you that don't know Star Trek Discovery is a new series in the the Star Trek universe brought out earlier in the year. Set just a few years before Kirk takes command of the Enterprise I was originally quite disappointed with the concept and didn't think it would be particularly interesting. The... Continue Reading →
Even in Star Wars the past seems better than we remember... Planet Simon Also find Planet Simon on Twitter Come and visit find me on my Planet Simon Facebook Page Find some of my pictures on Instagram Also look me up on: Pinterest Mix Wattpad
For as long as I can remember the Star Trek universe has been going. I grew up with the original series frequently repeated (as I'm too young to have seen it when it originally came out before any of you cheeky lot ask) and liking but not really understanding what Star Trek was all about.... Continue Reading →
As I've been looking at concepts recently one thought has occured to me, spacecraft come in all kind of different shapes and sizes and there are different methods of driving them where the engines go and how they work but it kind of seems like one thing seems to stick. The pilot is always looking... Continue Reading →
I grew up with all the Sci-Fi greats Star Wars, Star Trek, 2001 etc... What was the thing that made them great though? I don't want to say it was just the concepts, really it was about how these films made you feel. I still get goosebumps watching Darth Vader going about being evil in... Continue Reading →
How does NASA's technology measure up to the likes of fictional technology found in the likes of Star Wars... The truth maybe closer than you think and the force is with them! https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/173576478484/may-the-4th-be-with-you No ownership claimed on images - Credit NASA lanet Simon Also find Planet Simon on Twitter Come and visit find me... Continue Reading →
Despite the fact I'm a massive sci-fi fan I rarely get to see the films actually when they come out. This was definitely the case with Even Horizon, which I've recently seen after its release over 20 years ago. First of all this film disagreed with me greatly becasue despite being a supposedly science fiction... Continue Reading →
The name Ellie Maloney might not mean much to people here, some of you may remember a re-blogged post on her and her new book 329 Years awake a few weeks ago. Ellie is a very creative Sci-Fi blogger who a while ago went very quiet. It was easy to see why becasue she was... Continue Reading →
I love these drawings that are starting to appear all over the internet, I found this on on Pinterest and having grown up with the films and I always loved the Millenium Falcon I had to share this: Credit link: https://pin.it/d2t5vgogwl2n7u Simon 🙂
The problem with Borians is that they don't know when to give up when they decide they want something. It's not really clear if it's because they're too stupid to know when or... something else. So the jury is out on that one. Even as Miranda's spaceship headed away from the Borian battle cruiser the... Continue Reading →
Ralph was quiet, trying to digest the shocking news that Boris Johnson was an alien! He was vaguely aware that Miranda was trying to talk to him through his haze of thought. He was snapped out of it in an instant when the spaceship shook and he was thrown to his knees. "What was that?"... Continue Reading →
You know how you feel when you're fast a asleep and a child wakes you up by turning the light on? That feeling of disorientation and initial sickness is something that can be hard to describe. Ralph had never felt this... until now. Only right now something made it even worse, he felt like... Continue Reading →
for anyone interested and on Wattpad my four part short story Dark Horizons is now on Wattpad: Dark Horizons on Wattpad Simon 🙂
The Scifi files is a series of posts taking mysteries that I've found on the internet and finding out more about them. Are they real? Could there be a cover up? What monsters may live on, in or outside our Earth? The subject of the lunar landings is marred with theories of conspiracy and deceit.... Continue Reading →
Over the last couple of years I've written a number of short and not so short stories and trying to give them the visibility they deserve is a bit hard when they're hidden behind a menu system on my blog page. So I've put as many of them as I can find on this post and I'm going to pin it on my page.
Many of them aren't finished, but you know - Rome wasn't built in a day and all that.
Hi ya bloggies, after I publish this post, I'm likely to get a little badge telling me I've just posted my 1000th blog post. I'll be posting this too, but that's for later... For now I want to celebrate Planet Simon and 1000 posts of thoughts, musings, humour, fiction and discovery. I hope you'll enjoy... Continue Reading →
Some years ago, mankind found out how to find planets round other stars and this is done by measuring the light of a star and watching for a dip in the light that occurs when a planet (mainly a large one like Jupiter) passes in front of it. This can reduce the light of the... Continue Reading →
May the 4th is of course Star Wars day! Happy Star Wars day - by way of celebrating this I've got a few pics of Star Wars stuff from my archives. But if you want the full hit of Lego StarWars pictures have a look here: Star Wars Geek Show at LegoLand Simon :-)... Continue Reading →
Science fiction films being what they are can give unique personalities to machines of different kinds, be they computers, robots or spacecraft. The moments when these machines are killed off are moments of sadness. These are some of the most memorable sad moments from science fiction movies. If you can think of others that are... Continue Reading →
