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16-Week Course
Science Fiction Writing Studio
A serious studio course for writers who want to build science fiction with consequence: believable worlds, pressured characters, strange technologies, political systems, alien minds, collapsing futures, and finished manuscripts.
This is not a course about sprinkling spaceships, robots, or futuristic nouns over ordinary fiction. Each week studies how science fiction works on the page: how a single impossible change alters language, society, memory, ethics, bodies, infrastructure, and plot. Students read heavily, analyze deeply, write every week, and use AI only as a research, critique, continuity, and diagnostic partner. The author remains human. The judgment remains human. The sentences remain human.
Course Outcome
Build a science-fiction manuscript with professional discipline.
Across sixteen weeks, you will move from premise and world-pressure to structure, plausibility, alien cognition, political scale, revision, and manuscript completion. The default capstone is a complete novella-length manuscript, with an optional novel-track path for writers who want to work at greater scale.
Weekly Studio Path
Explore the 16 weeks
Each week will include a substantial craft lecture, lecture notes, a grammar and style lesson, readings, writing assignments, journaling work, and an ethical AI lab designed for feedback, analysis, verification, and revision support.
Week 1
Origins of the Impossible
Begin with the foundational question: what makes science fiction science fiction? This week studies the novum, wonder, dread, scientific consequence, and the moral cost of invention.
Coming soonWeek 2
Worlds with Pressure
Worldbuilding becomes story when it creates pressure. This week studies ecology, scarcity, labor, law, religion, weather, and the systems that force characters into decisions.
Open weekWeek 3
Societies, Language, and Ideology
Study how speculative societies reveal themselves through ritual, taboo, pronouns, propaganda, bureaucracy, and ordinary speech instead of explanatory lectures.
Coming soonWeek 4
The Altered Self
Science fiction becomes emotionally credible when altered conditions alter consciousness. This week focuses on voice, cognition, memory, identity, and pressure-induced transformation.
Coming soonWeek 5
Time Wounds and Nonlinear Memory
Nonlinear structure is not decoration. This week studies time travel, recurrence, trauma, memory, history, and the emotional spine that keeps fractured stories legible.
Coming soonWeek 6
Comic Velocity and Outsider Vision
Satire works when the world is absurd but the stakes are real. This week studies comic estrangement, outsider narration, deadpan, tonal control, and philosophical humor.
Coming soonWeek 7
Competence, Peril, and Page-Turning Structure
Learn the competence engine: how technical problem-solving creates suspense, how each solution creates a deeper problem, and how lucid logistics can drive plot.
Coming soonWeek 8
Consciousness, Copies, and Machine Personhood
Move beyond the question of what is human and toward the harder question of what kinds of beings count. This week studies AI, robots, copies, distributed selves, and obligation.
Coming soonWeek 9
Hard Science and Infrastructural Plausibility
Hard science fiction is not a pile of facts. This week studies material limits, infrastructure, research discipline, maintenance, failure, and consequence at scale.
Coming soonWeek 10
The Alien Mind
First contact fails when the alien is only a human in costume. This week studies alterity, perception, communication, unknowability, biology, and nonhuman cognition.
Coming soonWeek 11
War, Empire, and Political Scale
Science fiction can make governance feel intimate. This week studies military systems, imperial seduction, citizenship, bureaucracy, diplomacy, command chains, and scale.
Coming soonWeek 12
Collapse, Climate, and Sacred Aftermath
Post-collapse fiction becomes original when it asks what survives. This week studies climate pressure, scarcity, ritual, mutual aid, memory, trade, ruins, and belief.
Coming soonWeek 13
Form at Scale
Ambitious science fiction needs containers strong enough to hold complexity. This week studies frame narratives, braided plots, nested testimony, pilgrimage structures, and long-scale evolution.
Coming soonWeek 14
Networked Futures and Cultural Code
Cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk are about more than gadgets. This week studies interfaces, platform logic, urban scale, body modification, privacy, jargon, and sentence velocity.
Coming soonWeek 15
Revision for Philosophical Depth
Revision sharpens the question beneath the plot. This week focuses on implication, subtext, redundancy, tonal repair, abstract language, and idea-driven line editing.
Coming soonWeek 16
Manuscript Completion and Professional Finish
Finish the course with a manuscript package: complete draft, title, pitch, synopsis, revision memo, continuity check, and ethical AI-use self-assessment.
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