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Prepping for his talk at this weekend’s Writing the Occult: Time & Place event, Rick Danforth processes his thoughts in public: what exactly does it add to your narrative when you isolate your characters in the one place no one can hear you scream for help?
https://britishfantasysociety.org/writing-isolation-in-space/
#sciencefiction #scifi #scificommunity #scifiwriters #space #writers #writing #writingcommunity #author #writingtips #creativity #creativetoots #books #film
*You may notice that, even though I read a whole lotta David Gerard, I don't presume to *be* David Gerard. #MargaretCavendishSyndrome #dontdothat #really #scifiwriters
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2aiipqemoobrrilfx4jbm6pb/post/3mfr4jj6wvs2k
*You may notice that, even though I read a whole lotta David Gerard, I don't presume to *be* David Gerard. #MargaretCavendishSyndrome #dontdothat #really #scifiwriters
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2aiipqemoobrrilfx4jbm6pb/post/3mfr4jj6wvs2k
🚀 New Sci-Fi Cadets updates!
Two fresh chapters on Patreon + a newly released older chapter of Hindsight Station: Ashes Reborn now on Wattpad.
Follow James Fong’s fight from a collapsing Earth to the stars.
📘 Start here: https://www.wattpad.com/story/403773393-hindsight-station-ashes-reborn/
#SciFi #Dystopian #SpaceOpera #Cyberpunk #PostApocalyptic #Futurism #SpecFic #SciFiBooks #IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity #BookBoost #SpaceFiction #SolarPunk #DarkFuture #ScifiWriters
"But... you wouldn't put Rodney Brooks MIT-robot space-spiders into your space-opera sci-fi stories, would ya"
*Well, yeah, I kinda would do that, actually. #RodneyBrooks #scifiwriters #wheredotheygetthoseweirdideas
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Spider Rose outer-space spider...
Radon Journal's Issue 9 reading period is almost over!
Send us your fiction or poetry by early December for full consideration to make sure we have time to read your work before the holidays arrive.
#opensubmissions #lastcall #scifi #scififiction #scifiwriters #dystopianfiction #dystopia #anarchy #transhumanisn #indiewriters
"Tonight We're Wearing Waste Bags"
By Elena Sichrovsky
Read now: bit.ly/3ShbTCH
Author Site: elenasichrovsky.com
She was stuck in dormant mode. She could see and hear. She could think. But she was otherwise trapped inside herself. She wanted to tell him to send her in for a reboot, but she couldn’t. She couldn’t even ask him to put her by the window so she could see her garden.
By P.A. Cornell
pacornell.com
Read now: bit.ly/3R5bXow
"Maybe we can get another one?" she says.
"Well, sure," Stan says, flipping a page. "But we'll still need the tank."
"I meant another tank."
"Oh," Stan says. "Right. So did I."
By Ashlee Lhamon
Read now: bit.ly/4dOLBkl
Every Friday, I meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). This week, I meet a writer who says "I write weird, queer stuff" and "most of my books interrogate bodily autonomy in some way". World, let's shine the light on L.R. Lam!
https://britishfantasysociety.org/meet-l-r-lam/
#writersofmastodon #fantasywriters #scifiwriters #speculativefiction
“Get ready to spend the last few minutes of the drought with me and my Mawmaw—the only person I ever met who was alive last time it rained.”
By Harvey Bly
Read now: bit.ly/3J71t3B
Amir messaged us one day to say
they’d found the secret to solve all
our long distance problems:
A hack; a cheatcode; a drug; a revelation
that would allow us to feel each other
from across the globe
By Avra Margariti
avramargariti.carrd.co
Read now: bit.ly/3J4gpiY
I want to share the results of my experiments with you, and perhaps inspire you to rediscover the recipes that made up your own lives before our leap into space.
By Libby Graham
ldgraham.com/about
Read now: bit.ly/3VI9cMX
Laughing and spinning,
and when she pulled in her limbs
like a shy flower
she would spin even faster
She always wanted to go faster
By J. M. Eno
Read now: bit.ly/3PBvFaE
Stoked to be seeing folks leave reviews on my site for books! Really working on pushing my store where I can and gotta have that social proof!
they always came in the night
the invaders, hiding paper-thin bodies
in cracks too tiny to see
By @AstroDave
Author Page: amzn.to/3TJhXoA
Read now: bit.ly/3TJuHvB
I'm teaching a seminar for Clarion West on April 4th! Drawing on my experience as an anthology editor for World Weaver Press and a story reviewer for Imagine 2200, I'll go over some of the most common issues that I see in climate fiction slush piles.
#solarpunk #lunarpunk #ClimateFiction #ClimateWriters #ScienceFiction #SciFiWriters #ClarionWest #WritingClass #Imagine2200
https://clarionwest.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/clarionwest/eventList.jsp
Sheila. My wife. Theodore’s mother. Whatever could be salvaged from the shards and fragments of her I sent for processing.
By Jennifer Lesh Fleck
Read now: bit.ly/48V6lDu
our ship is alive, flesh
corridors squelching under our feet
the low hum of a drum heartbeat
lulling us to sleep
By Eva Papasoulioti
plothopes.com
Read now: bit.ly/4ceSM4n
“First contact! It has to be! Which means it’s time to bring Dr. Jones up to speed.” Jiang bounces toward the door. “We’re going down in history. How does it feel?”
By Julia LaFond
jklafondwriter.wordpress.com
Read now: radonjournal.com/issue6/first-contact
time is
not elastic,
neither can it
be understood
as a shared reality;
By Kevin Canfield
Read now: radonjournal.com/issue6/temporal-hypothesis
“We all broke the world, Mazie.”
“Some of us more than others.”
By Hannah Greer
Read now: bit.ly/3P2OZxh
They called her La Malinche,
so I call myself the treacherous
translator, Tenepal, creator
of malware that tastes of las
llamas, flames the Inquisition
could never put out
By Angela Acosta
pw.org/directory/writers/angela_acosta
Read now: bit.ly/3STXa02
The Clarion Workshop is still accepting applications until March 1! This is an amazing opportunity to level up your writing. The instructors this year are Sam J Miller, Jeffrey Ford, Matt Bell, Nalo Hopkinson, Alyssa Wong, and Isabel Yap.
Application Fee Waivers and scholarships available!
#ScienceFiction #FantasyWriters #SciFiWriters #HorrorWriters #Clarion #ClarionUCSD
While Gwyn may no longer register as human, the contract contains no stipulations regarding species alteration.
By Lex Chamberlin
lexchamberlin.com
Read now: radonjournal.com/issue6/take-care
When the men came, their boots stained the children’s playmat
We remembered to offer them tea
and to unzip our bodies from our shame
By Angela Liu
liu-angela.com
Read now: radonjournal.com/issue6/the-machine-family
My reservation? Like I said, the girl couldn’t find it. But I assure you, it’s there. Also, I’m aware I said three a second ago, but I need the real Limonia special: four days dead. Pretty please.
By @haeugene
haeugene.tv
Read now: bit.ly/3SZYTC4
Read Jean-Paul L. Garnier's series of sci-fi haiku now at radonjournal.com/issue6/scifaiku
Author Page: spacecowboybooks.com/tag/jean-paul-garnier
Take care of your forever home. Remember, if you don’t, it’s in your contract that we will induce another mass extinction, and we can always find another buyer. You can do it!
By Vivian Chou
vivianchouwriter.com
Read now: https://bit.ly/3ujbMOl
The dead machines stay silent—hollow faces
of newly inanimate silicon and steel
frozen in thousand-framed poses on stages
of papier-mâché, two by one, plaster, and tinfoil.
By Oliver Smith
oliversimonsmithwriter.wordpress.com
Read now: radonjournal.com/issue6/holes
A Satellite Made of Wood. Sounds like one for the #SciFiWriters but is an actual #space project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmmNEUl5yDo
Who wants this one?
The Black:
John Carpenter's "The Thing" meets "Alien" meets "The Blob" on an oil rig in 30k feet of water.
That's how the series begins...
https://amzn.to/3GPD69W
#bookstodon #horrorCommunity #scifiBooks #scifiWriters #indie
This Saturday, I'll be chatting with authors Priya Sridhar, Kellie Doherty, and Dianna Gunn about how to build a writing routine. Join us! It's free and online, 11-noon EST on March 25th.
See more and register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/making-the-habit-how-to-build-a-writing-routine-tickets-556044663557
This is just one of the panels for the Weeknight Writers Storycrafting Sessions event. Check out the other panels here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/o/weeknight-writers-group-52778147883
#WritingLife #writing #writers #WritersOfMastodon #SciFi #SciFiWriters #FantasyBooks #FantasyWriters
Lauded author Octavia Butler in rare interview on why she became a writer and wrote science fiction.
#OctaviaButler #blackmastodon #blackscifi #scifi #scifibooks #scifiwriters #scifimastodon #sciencefiction
Interview Date: June 01, 2000
Last week's episode of DRS included AI generated everything, publishing woes, and utter nonsense as our primary topics.
https://youtu.be/jcI4xaVBk9E
#scifiWriter #scifiWriters #bookstodon #talkshow #podcast #writingCommunity
in a little over 30 minutes, The irreverent writing, publishing, and pop culture podcast goes live.
Join scifi author Terry Mixon, author and voice actor Veronica Giguere, and, tragically, I'Ill be there, too, as we babble incessantly, answer questions, and enjoy conversation.
Today's topics will undoubtedly include AI generated everything, publishing woes, and utter nonsense.
#scifiWriter #scifiWriters #bookstodon #talkshow #writingCommunity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcI4xaVBk9E
New server, "new" intro post!
I write contemporary space opera and earn my living as an aerospace engineer. I have a BS in aerospace & mechanical engineering from Case Western Reserve University, am working on an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, and attended the Alpha Workshop and PGSS a long time ago. Thread addict. 1/
#introduction #writers #ScifiWriters #SpaceOpera #engineer #WomenInSTEM
It's time for an introduction post, now that I have a stable server for a month.
I write contemporary space opera and earn my living as an aerospace engineer. I have a BS in aerospace & mechanical engineering from Case Western Reserve University, am working on an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, and attended the Alpha Workshop and PGSS a long time ago.
We do threads on Mastodon? 1/?