Heather Albano's Blog

I’m not completely sure why I didn’t discover The Frankenstein Chronicles before now. I think I read a negative review early on, or maybe I was confusing it with something else. But Richard and I were searching for something new to watch after finishing The Alienist (very very good, by the way, assuming you can […]

If you find yourself suddenly gaining access to a time machine, what’s the first thing you’d do? If you said “kill Adolf Hitler”, then congratulations; you’re a science-fiction character. Actually, the whole “access to a time machine” thing suggested that already, but the desire to kill Hitler clinches it.  – Dean Burnett    Everybody kills Hitler […]

Time travel stories come in different flavors. There are the “fish out of water” historical fiction or futurefic stories; alternate history “what-if” stories; and stories where the actual mechanics of the time travel are a crucial part of the plot. Most take a little from column A and a little from column B, of course. […]

Intrigue In The Clouds is a famous convention LARP, but I didn’t know that when I went to sign up for games at Intercon. If I had known of its fame, I would have put it as my first choice. Putting it as my second choice got me on the waitlist. Live and learn. I […]

Join me at Boskone (February 16-18, 2018) in Boston, MA for New England’s longest running science fiction and fantasy convention! I will be moderating two panels and involved in two different group readings. AND, to my delight, I have been given a solo slot to give a talk on applying live action design principles to augmented reality games! […]

Will you be at Arisia this coming weekend? So will I! Come and see me at:   “If You Don’t Know, Now You Know” – Friday 5:30pm Marina2 SFF Authors use foreknowledge of events, whether predictive models, visions, or prophecy, to give characters future knowledge, often to solve story problems. In this panel, we’ll look […]

A merry Christmas to all you who are celebrating today, and a peek at Christmas 1815 in the Carrington household!   If you have not yet tried Timepiece, you still have a few hours to enter the Goodreads giveaway!   — William Carrington woke from a dream of hot Spanish sun to the depressing certainty […]

(I drafted this before the appendicitis, and it was funnier then. But I’m posting it anyway.) When I was at this stage of recovery from the first leg surgery, I was still wearing a pressure stocking most of the time, so it didn’t occur to me to examine the scars in any meaningful way. This […]

Hey, Internet, I need some logistical assistance with this scene. Got a minute? The best access to the place you need to sneak 9 people into is a 75-foot suspension bridge over a gorge, patrolled by two guards, with a third sitting on an alarm system at the far end. Your orders are to “kill […]

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