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The Daily Tweets, 2010-04-19: “Riverworld” livesnark
SyFy’s latest adaptation of Philip José Farmer’s “Riverworld” series is just as sucky as the last one (when they were SciFi Channel), in spite of some actors I like. Continue reading
Posted in The Daily Tweets
Tagged livesnark, Philip José Farmer, science fiction, Things I did instead of going to bed at a reasonable hour
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Storyminded
Two things bring on storymind tonight: a cool new blog called Science in My Fiction by my pals at Crossed Genres; & the story of murder, an interstellar spaceship, & Lord Shiva that I’m about to start working on.
Posted in Cold, Long Dark
Tagged Asura (Long Dark), Crossed Genres, science fiction, Science in My Fiction (blog), writing
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Building Consensus
How editing Wikipedia & a fictional Martian constitutional convention influenced the Consensus government in my novel(s)-to-be. Yep, & consensus would be a better way to run our own world too, yep.
Posted in About writing, Cold
Tagged Battle of Washita River, civility, Cold notes, collaborative decisionmaking, collective intelligence, consensus, Consensus (Cold), Dena'ina, good government bad government, Harming none do as you will, integrity, Kim Stanley Robinson, Margaret Turnbull, Mars, Mars Trilogy, NaNoWriMo 2007, Pavonis Mons, Peter Kalifornsky, science fiction, selfhood, sociocracy, storymind, terraforming, Turnbull (Cold), Ursula K. Leguin, Wikipedia, worldbuilding, writing
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Good for my worldbuilding, bad for my world
One tool for inventing an imaginary story universe in science fiction is extrapolating from the present into the future. Granting corporations lots of extra power as the Supreme Court did recently is very good for my worldbuilding. But is very bad for the world I actually live in.
Posted in Cold, Long Dark, Polis
Tagged Anchorage Baptist Temple, Anchorage Daily News, C.J. Cherryh, Chris, Citizens United v. FEC, Cold notes, collective intelligence, consensus, Consensus (Cold), corporations, corporations as persons, Cyteen, Dave, democracy, good government bad government, J.R.R. Tolkien, Juneau Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson, Long Dark notes, Lord of the Rings, Mars, Middle Earth, political corruption, science fiction, sociocracy, terraforming, Tom Anderson, VECO, worldbuilding, writing
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Crossed Genres anthology released — complete w/ my story "Cold"
My story “Cold,” from my novel-in-progress of the same title, is appearing again — this time in Crossed Genres‘ Year One anthology, which collects stories from each of the magazine’s first twelve issues.
Posted in Cold
Tagged Crossed Genres, lgbtq, Melz published work, science fiction, writing
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Shark (a story for Haiti)
“Shark” is an excerpt from the novel-in-progress Cold, posted online for free as part of Crossed Genres’ Post a Story for Haiti project. Please donate to Haiti earthquake relief.
Battlestar Rhapsody
This brilliant parody of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” retells the tale of “Battlestar Galactica.”
Posted in Journal
Tagged Battlestar Galactica (TV), Caprica (TV), humor, science fiction, video
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Crossed Genres announces its first short story anthology — and "Cold" will be in it!
Crossed Genres will publish its first anthology containing one story from each of its first 12 issues — including my story “Cold” from the LGBTQ issue.
Posted in Cold
Tagged accepted for publication, Crossed Genres, lgbtq, science fiction, writing
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"Cold" is published!
My story “Cold” is now appearing in the November 2009 issue of Crossed Genres, which also has a lot of other great LGBTQ science fiction/fantasy. Give it a read!
Taking life support for granted
Pina Chomko: s a story character in my novel-in-progress Cold. She’s not like us: she grew up in outer space. Her dream: to take for granted all the life support services that nature provides for free — just like us.
Posted in Cold, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo
Tagged biospherics, CELSS, Cold notes, Long Dark notes, NaNoWriMo 2009, Pina Chomko (Cold), research for writing, science fiction, writing
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