Andrew Burt: 11 books
by Andrew Burt
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
How to avoid anachronisms in fiction to keep your prose timeless...So you're reading along in the Bourne Ultimatum, you're with Jason Bourne on the run, he's caught sneaking out to the car—interrogated by the baddies—and boom, he says, "I'm just driving out on the highway...
by Andrew Burt
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
"Free to go" doesn't always exactly mean free to go...The smell was like fresh manure mixed with rancid milk the best smell Fenn Tibarrien could have wished for. He recognized a few of the noxious odors that penetrated his breathing mask, and spoke in his mind what he knew the translator...
by Andrew Burt
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
(Shhh! A Secret of Great Writing)An article originally published in the SFWA Bulletin on fascinating statistical correlations found between the amount of interpersonal relationships in "well regarded" vs. "ordinary" SF/F stories. In addition to the article are supplemental materials, including...
by Andrew Burt
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2010
What does the future of transportation and racing look like? Join the last leg of the 2032 IDITEROC Race of Champions from Frisco to Denver. Sometimes it's about the journey, not the destination. Then again, sometimes it's not...
by Andrew Burt
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
If you had a terrible secret, perhaps you'd find time dilation has its uses...
by Andrew Burt
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
In the future, the Minuteman software system listens to all phone calls, reads all messages, watches everything, to keep Americans safe... but what happens when it mis-hears what someone says? Who's watching the watchers?
by Andrew Burt
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2011
Sometimes I wish birds had never discovered that humans were intelligent...(If you like playing Angry Birds then you've got to read this one. First published in Outside SF / FarSector in 2003.)
by Andrew Burt
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
We're living in a Simulated Universe? Are you sure?Pondering about the nature of the universe is always fun, isn't it? It's one of the cool things science fiction writers get to do.So, this Oxford philosopher "proves," mathematically, that either you're living in...
by Andrew Burt
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Colonists and crew crammed into a freight ship destined for a distant planet must find a way to survive when it turns into a plague ship... and the plague isn't the only kind of sickness they must overcome.EXCERPT:Captain Savola fell ill to ‘The Purge’ this morning. He collapsed...
by Andrew Burt
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Whoever says Pi is a constant simply hasn't checked it precisely enough — which may be a good thing!
