Recently, I’ve read the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy by Chinese author Cixin Liu and was very much impressed by it. This in turn awakened my fascination with hard science fiction and development of creative imagination. What I mean by creative imagination development is a technique that was promoted by Genrikh Altshuller who was inventor, sci-fi writer and the creator of The Theory of Inventive problem Solving (TRIZ). To provide some context that creative imagination development technique was conceived by Altshuller with the help of his students, such Pavel Amnuel, who himself is a prolific si-fi writer and astrophysicist.

Since I am interested in topic of guided inventions which Genrikh Altshuller was written about I intend to write a number of post related to how hard sci-fi ideas can be purposefully engineered, using the tools of creative imagination development technique.

Stay tuned.