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Tag: science fiction
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Smelling Sweetly
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” –William Shakespeare When I am writing fiction, I don’t worry too much about names, either of characters or of books. I think I have a story somewhere in which the main character has no name. You see,…
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Review: Mistress of the Waves
Starships are meant to fly… So yes, I do listen to my daughter’s music from time to time. But that line caught me, and it came back as I finished Mistress of the Waves and started thinking more about the central premise of the story. George Phillies succeeded in doing something that rarely works out…
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It is written l…
It is written like this: “I checked out with K 19 on Aldabaran III, and stepped out through the crummalite hatch on my 22 Model Sirus Hardtop. I cocked the timejector in secondary and waded through the bright blue manda grass. My breath froze into pink pretzels. I flicked on the heat bars and the…
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Review: Sky Suspended
I have been trying to figure out who to compare this book to – as unfair as it sometimes seems, drawing a parallel between one work and another at least has the benefit of quickly conveying to the reader what to expect – and was considering the latter half of the Harrington series by David…
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Well-Covered
A books cover speaks loudly… I’ve put together some examples, good and bad, over at Amazing Stories today. What do you think belongs on a science fiction cover? Fantasy? What looks awful? Next week I will get into how to find and use images.
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World Building: Who made that?
Cross-Posted at Amazing Stories Magazine I was getting all excited last night over the idea of making my next purse. I can work with leather, and I don’t want something that looks like what everyone else has, so… But as I went to bed and was mulling over everything I needed and this post I…
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Links to Interesting Stuff
I don’t have time, with homework and the office phone ringing, to do a formal post. So I’m putting links up to some good blogs from the last few days, for you to explore. First off, Sarah Hoyt asks the very good question, can you teach writing? Peter Grant looks at the sales of his…
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Anthropomorphic
Today as I was running an errand, pondering Lit. class, and our ongoing discussion of houses in stories we were reading, which tied into the obituary of a house I wrote earlier this week, I was startled by something my GPS did into thinking about anthropomorphism. Like that sentence, my brain often rambles off on…
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Review Friday
Today I review a story called Snow Angel, by Stryder Dancewolffe, at her behest, to compare and contrast the stories with two very similar titles, themes, and yet very different in content and style. Stryder’s novella is set in a world decimated by plague, where the mentally ill are discarded like broken dolls. One such…
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Review: Finally!
So, last week I read two space opera novels and had planned to review them on my usual Friday, but time ran out. I work most weekends, and this last week, that meant Friday most of the day, too. Nice, for making-a-living, but meant I was pretty much away from computer for three days. I…
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Human Wave Garage Sale!
Guest post by Sabrina Chase, who was kind enough to organize this first collaborative effort for Human Wave authors. The Human Wave Garage Sale When did it become fashionable for published fiction to be full of self-loathing for qualities most intelligent humans value? Where’s the adventure, the courage, the fun? We suppose it was about the…
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Watch This Title
I am offering Plant Life, a novella about planetary exploration, free for a limited time. I’m doing this to provide you, my reader, with a chance to sample my work as I get ready to publish a new title, and to celebrate the publication of one of my stories by Naked Reader Press on or…