August 20, 2025
09-14-2025 | 1:00 pm ET via ZOOM Opening Statement Welcome to DreamCasters, a DreamForge discussion group devoted to helping our members improve their writing and storytelling […]
July 20, 2025
08-02-2025 | 1:00 pm ET via ZOOM Opening Statement Welcome to DreamCasters, a DreamForge discussion group devoted to helping our members improve their writing and storytelling […]
June 24, 2025
07-12-2025 | 1:00 pm ET via ZOOM Opening Statement Welcome to the 50th Session of DreamCasters, a DreamForge discussion group devoted to helping our members improve […]
June 18, 2023
Perfect for Beginning Writers Eager to Learn More About Writing Short Stories and Submitting to Genre Magazines Ever dreamt of worlds far away, of alien civilizations, […]
October 9, 2021
Making Science Fiction Not Fiction… Forever By Scot Noel On September 15th, 2021 at 8:02 pm EDT, crewed orbital flight passed from the realm of superpowers […]
October 22, 2020
Deep in the guts of this book there’s a telling line: “He had long ago come to accept that fate was his to forge from life’s […]
August 22, 2020
As I write this, we’re wrapping up story selections for Issue # 7. My previous thoughts on “Why We Didn’t Buy Your Story” came out after […]
July 19, 2020
Exciting news! Lif Strand, who wrote the wonderful short “Being Me” https://bit.ly/Lif-Being-Me for DreamForge Issue # 2 has a debut novel coming out on July 28 […]
July 11, 2020
The world has been coming to an end for a long time, for centuries if not for millennia. While the doomsayers wring their hands and point […]
December 22, 2019
The cover for DreamForge Issue #4 is by Frank Schurter for the short story “Extremophile” by Robert Harpold. Frank is an amazing illustrator, teacher, and friend. […]
November 3, 2019
Table of Contents About the Cover Our cover is by Frank Schurter and accompanies Robert Harpold’s Hard SF tale “Extremophile.” Frank’s art is meticulous and its […]
July 26, 2019
Hope Notes 1 Why do we believe humankind is worthwhile? That today is better than the past, and the future of greater potential still? There has […]
January 9, 2019
An Amazing Response At DreamForge, when we put out our first call for stories, we did so quietly, passing the word from friend to friend, writer […]
July 25, 2018
“When, very late in the history of our planet, the incredible accident of life occurred, a balance of chemical factors, combined with temperature, in quantities and […]
July 7, 2018
Years before Star Trek, Algis Budrys was thinking about transporters and considering the possibilities more deeply than many an adventure and horror writer who has called upon […]
July 4, 2018
Madwand is a short novel by Roger Zelazny, and while not one of Mr. Zelazny’s best, it remains an entertaining fantasy. The plot of the novel is […]
July 4, 2018
by Scot Noel It’s fun to write science fiction, to create characters of the future and calculate the effect of magical technologies upon them. During my […]
July 4, 2018
Is the End of Days Upon Us? Every generation sees its believers in the End of Days. Certainly, the destruction of Earth and extinction of the […]
June 24, 2018
by Scot Noel What is a theory, especially a scientific theory? And how controversial can they be? No doubt you’ve heard some authority proclaim “well, evolution […]