HeyJaredJourney to Kyron
Documenting the development of a trailer for the Future Vision XPrize comp for optimistic sci-fi.
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You Can’t Put That in the Stratosphere (opens the original)
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Dealing with Disappointment (opens the original)
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A squelching noise makes me open my eyes. A little black face looks up at me, wrinkled snout settling back into a permanent scowl now that the yawn is out. Our French bulldog cocks her head, like she knows something’s not right. I close my eyes and pull the blanket closer to my chin.I want the feelings to stop. Rejection. Not good enough. Failure. I feel it physically. Shudders that start in my guts and radiate out into my arms and legs. A weight pressing on my chest. My eyes sting behind clench
My XPrize Entry (opens the original)
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And here are a few excerpts from the Treatment.Logline: Traveling to an exoplanet is a milestone shared by all humanity and impossible without artificial intelligence, which puts the crew in an unthinkable crisis when they lose their AI just as they reach their destination.SynopsisCome inside a magnificent generation ship fit for 100,000 people. Choose from one of ten luxurious O’Neill Cylinders that spin to provide a comfor
Here it is (opens the original)
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Hi!I’m building a 3 minute trailer to enter into the Future Vision XPrize competition. The prize is $2.5M to make the movie. The story is Journey to Kyron, a novel I’ve been working on for many years in which people travel to another planet because technology got so good that such a voyage became possible.The trailer, a 12 page treatment, and a cover page are due on August 15, 2026.Here are the judging criteria:— Evaluation CriteriaInitial screening evaluates four primary dimensions:1. <
This is Why I’m Not a Leader (opens the original)
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At my school, there was a yearly house competition called chorals. The houses were named after nymphs. Here’s the mural from the school foyer, depicting the nymphs in their origins. Dryads, tree nymphs, Nereids, nymphs of lakes and waterfalls, Naiads, nymphs of the sea, and Oreads, the mountain nymphs:<div
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