A Guest Interview from Parallel Earth

We’re happy to bring you another sci-fi steaMG giveaway and a special guest post by author S.G. Wilson and ummmm…. S.G. Wilson. One of them is the brilliant author of Me vs. The Multiverse and well, we’re not entirely sure about the other one.

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Evil SG Wilson of Earth 2: 

Greetings. I’m S.G. Wilson, but not the S.G. Wilson you may be aware of. I hail from another Earth. A very advanced alternate Earth positioned within a “parallel universe,” if you will. It’s a concept that may be too difficult for your primitive Earth One brains to fathom. You see, there’s this thing called the “multiverse.”

SG Wilson of Earth 1: 

Yeah, they get it. Everybody knows about the multiverse at this point.

Evil SG: 

Are you serious?! I had a five-hour lecture planned about how string theory and quantum physics come together to explain the intricate science behind alternate Earths!

SG: 

No way am I listening to another of your evil lectures! Listen, you agreed to swing by my Earth and help promote a sci-fi middle grade book giveaway I’ve helped organize. Seven books, seven authors. Great for fans of middle-grade science fiction.

Evil SG:

I don’t know what any of that means! “Science fiction?” “Middle grade books?” We don’t have these things where I come from!

SG: 

Really? No books for young people? No stories about space and robots and time travel and stuff?

Evil SG:

We have exactly two kinds of books on my Earth: the kind that tell stories about adults taking a mid-life-crisis vacation to discover themselves and the kind that that take 400 pages to list three or four ways to be better at business.

SG:

Now THAT sounds evil. It’s too bad your Earth doesn’t have science fiction or middle grade books, especially since they go so well together. The ideas that science fiction explores mesh perfectly with stories about kids growing up.

Evil SG:

That sounds preposterous!

SG:

Not at all. It’s like in my book series, ME VS. THE MULTIVERSE. It’s about a kid who goes to a convention for his duplicates from parallel Earths. And by meeting all these doubles, he learns a lot about himself. 

Evil SG:

I guess I can see that. I mean, I’ve learned something about myself from meeting you.

SG: 

And what would that be?

Evil SG: 

That I never want to see you, your stinking Earth or this idiotic book offer ever again!

SG: 

Well, I can’t think of a better endorsement for the giveaway than that. Readers, you’ll likely recognize the participating authors: Lamar Giles, Fran Wilde, Nicole Valentine, Monica Tesler, Josh Levy, Katie Slivesky, and myself, S.G. Wilson (not to be confused with the evil version of me, who’s such a dip).

Evil SG:

Hey!

SG: 

Just head over to Twitter at this link: https://twitter.com/SGWilson_Earth1/status/1381646074683723776

And thanks!

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Living in Science Fiction

“As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin

I think we all have an appreciation for what it’s like to live inside an alternate universe after this past year. Like most good narratives, there’s a ray of hope on the horizon. 

It felt like it was time for an update from us. 

The steaMG team has been busy writing and supporting virtual classrooms with author visits and presentations during the pandemic. We feel it’s more important than ever to highlight the importance of scientific discovery while creating awe and wonder in the hearts of young readers.

In the following weeks we have a sci-fi book giveaway coming up, some words of wisdom from special guests and more from your steaMG team.  There is so much more work to do in the world.


steaMG on Tour!

When we started this alliance one of the things we hoped to see was more sci-fi and fantasy programming in middle grade fiction.

And it’s happening! steaMG is on tour!

If you are in the Plainville, MA area please come see us at AN UNLIKELY STORY.

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The Song of the Sea

There are a million ways to write speculative fiction. It’s one of the reasons I love the genre so very much. Possibility is infinite. Potential is limitless. 

Personally, rather than looking beyond our world for inspiration, I prefer to narrow my focus; to peer even more closely at our own world. For me, nature is magic. I’ve always been an outdoorsy person. I’ve always preferred groves of trees to clumps of buildings; the sound of moving water to the happy buzz of conversation in a coffee shop; the tapestry of color roving up the side of a mountain to anything you might see hanging on a wall. 

 So when it came time to create seven worlds and a magic system for each, I looked for inspiration in Earth’s wilderness.

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