#scifiwriters — Public Fediverse posts
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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
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*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
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"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 flic.kr/p/2r5f2e6
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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
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"Tonight We're Wearing Waste Bags"
By Elena SichrovskyRead now: bit.ly/3ShbTCH
Author Site: elenasichrovsky.com
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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.comRead now: bit.ly/3R5bXow
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"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
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“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
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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 globeBy Avra Margariti
avramargariti.carrd.coRead now: bit.ly/3J4gpiY
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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/aboutRead now: bit.ly/3VI9cMX
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Laughing and spinning,
and when she pulled in her limbs
like a shy flower
she would spin even fasterShe always wanted to go faster
By J. M. Eno
Read now: bit.ly/3PBvFaE
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they always came in the night
the invaders, hiding paper-thin bodies
in cracks too tiny to seeBy @AstroDave
Author Page: amzn.to/3TJhXoARead now: bit.ly/3TJuHvB
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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
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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
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our ship is alive, flesh
corridors squelching under our feet
the low hum of a drum heartbeat
lulling us to sleepBy Eva Papasoulioti
plothopes.comRead now: bit.ly/4ceSM4n
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“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.comRead now: radonjournal.com/issue6/first-contact
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time is
not elastic,
neither can it
be understood
as a shared reality;By Kevin Canfield
Read now: radonjournal.com/issue6/temporal-hypothesis
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“We all broke the world, Mazie.”
“Some of us more than others.”
By Hannah Greer
Read now: bit.ly/3P2OZxh
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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 outBy Angela Acosta
pw.org/directory/writers/angela_acostaRead now: bit.ly/3STXa02
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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
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While Gwyn may no longer register as human, the contract contains no stipulations regarding species alteration.
By Lex Chamberlin
lexchamberlin.comRead now: radonjournal.com/issue6/take-care
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When the men came, their boots stained the children’s playmat
We remembered to offer them tea
and to unzip our bodies from our shameBy Angela Liu
liu-angela.comRead now: radonjournal.com/issue6/the-machine-family
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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.tvRead now: bit.ly/3SZYTC4
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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
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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.comRead now: https://bit.ly/3ujbMOl
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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.comRead now: radonjournal.com/issue6/holes