Between Gods and Beasts

Between Gods and Beasts is a fanfiction that was the result of an extended practice of lucid dreaming. This story is a Divine Comedy-esque exploration of the world of Ridley Scott’s Alien prequels and a morality tale of the dangers of fan devotion.

Written between 2019-2020

View the story here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/18192500/chapters/43033124

Related artwork:

Covenant Minute 32

In which I am joined by Curtis Bloes of Time Bandits Minute to discuss novelisations, and just what exactly is a “sound”?

Find Curtis here:

https://www.facebook.com/TimeBanditsMinute

Citations 

Spoiler study enjoyment. (2011, August 11). The Mary Sue. https://www.themarysue.com/spoilers-study/

Find my old podcast The Book Was Better here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrmJufJdpkvrHzQFZBU2NbFRkJyd7YkyM

Covenant Minute 23

In which I am joined by Rob of the Great Escape Minute, and we discuss how futuristic technology in science fiction isn’t so futuristic anymore, spooky hidden details, and do Engineers see in sound?

Find Rob at the Great Escape Minute, he’s doing good work over there. I love this movie and he’s finding all sorts of details I never noticed:

https://thegreatescapeminute.com/

Covenant Minute 09

In which I talk about babies, generation starships, and neutrinos.

Citations

Crowl, A., Hunt, J., & Hein, A. M. (2012). Embryo Space Colonisation to Overcome the Interstellar Time Distance Bottleneck. JBIS, (65), 283-285. https://www.jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2012.65.283

Edwards, L. (2010, January 21). Humans were once an endangered species. Phys.org – News and Articles on Science and Technology. https://phys.org/news/2010-01-humans-endangered-species.html

Morber, J. (2017, April 26). Should we study human embryos beyond 14 days? PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/14-day-rule/

Neutrino Bursts. (2001). Science, 294(5548), 1793. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/294/5548/1793.2.full

Raised by wolves analysis – SE01 EP01 – Studio Yutani [Video]. (2020, September 12). YouTube. https://youtu.be/V-g0fP7NZS4

Shaffer, M. L. (1981). Minimum population sizes for species conservation. BioScience, 31(2), 131-134. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article-abstract/31/2/131/223836?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Stoppler, M. C. (n.d.). Embryo vs. fetus: The stages of pregnancy. MedicineNet. https://www.medicinenet.com/embryo_vs_fetus_differences_week-by-week/article.htm

Turner, B. (2015, March 12). Are cheetahs clones of each other? HowStuffWorks. https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/are-cheetahs-clones-of-each-other.htm