Art and Science of Time Crystal

Last week, Wyken Seagrave began posting episodes of his science fiction novel. Today, he’s following on with the “directors commentary”, if you will. He’s going to be simultaneously releasing Art and Science of Time Crystal as a separate title.

Wyken Seagrave talks about the pleasures and pains of inventing, developing, writing and podcasting of Time Crystal, the greatest adventure in the history of the Universe. He also explores the science behind the story, explaining which bits are invented and which bits are hard science.

To keep things sane, this book has it’s own feed. You can subscribe to the default feed — currently at six episodes with more coming — or tailor your downloading times by taking a free custom feed.

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3 Responses to “Art and Science of Time Crystal”

  1. genevere Says:
    March 2nd, 2010 at 10:53 am

    Lots of interesting information about the science behind Time Crystal and the writing process.

  2. Chris Says:
    March 31st, 2011 at 3:51 pm

    Started listening to the podcast with admittedly low expectations, but I got sucked in right away. Listening to Wyken discuss his creative process was inspiring, kind of makes me want to get back into writing – I might have to start getting notes prepared for NaNoWriMo this year! Thanks for the heads up.

  3. Pirvonen Says:
    June 13th, 2011 at 3:33 am

    To paraphrase what Wyken Seagrave is pleased to call science: “We have to trust these professionals. But we have to question them, and if they don’t give us the answers we want, we have to find some other scientists who do.”

    I would have no problem with Seagrave’s ideas if he presented them as simply artistic license. However, he all too often says “In my opinion it could”, without presenting any kind of argument of why he holds this opinion, making him sound like a classic quantum-relativistic crackpot.

    I find it encouraging that writers use cutting-edge science and technology as fulcrum for their storytelling. Even better it is when the author manages to popularize some of the concepts to lay terms. This work accomplishes some of that, but has serious misrepresentations.

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