Today we are supposed to discuss our interests. Since I’m not particularly interested in að dansa or að iþrotta (sports) I looked up the things I was interested in. You’ve already learned the term for puppet from me, so here’s a new one. Ég hef áhuga á vÃsindaskáldskapum. Translation: I am interested in science-fiction. [audio:sciencefiction.mp3]
Jason Sizemore, at Apex Digest, has been very supportive of me and of Shimmer. This was on his blog today. A Writer’s Vanity – Hunting for Hubris This is my own personal horror story. In it, I play the guy whose pride won’t let him ask for help when he sees that he needs it.
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We biked to the Kolaport today because the weather is gorgeous. In the course of browsing, I found a booth that was selling off someone’s entire collection of science fiction. 500 kronur for seven books. I managed to limit myself to seven, which was not easy. I now have first printings of: The Stars My
In puppetry we say that breathe carries the emotion. The only time a person notices another person breathing is when it’s important, when it’s carrying information. The simplest example is what happens when you look at someone lying down. You automatically notice if they are breathing, to make certain they aren’t dead. But there are
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I need a couple of readers for this before I submit it. 1450 words, science-fiction. Any takers? His keys dropped to the floor. Julius stared at them, unwilling to look at his outstretched left arm. At the bandaged stump where his hand had been two weeks ago. He should be used to it by now.
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Edward Bear and the Very Long Walk : Fiction by Ken Scholes The simplest review I can give of this is, “Go read it. Now.”
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We left Dettifoss and rejoined the Ring Road heading back west. On the way we passed by Krafla, which Rob was very interested in for the geothermal power. None of my photos do justice to this giant science-fiction landscape. On one side of the valley, the hills are barren, on the other side, they are
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Wired News: It’s Alive (ish) When Rene Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am,” the philosopher probably didn’t imagine a stamp-sized clump of rat neurons grown in a dish, hooked to a computer. Following the article back to the home of the project, NeuroLab > Potter Group, I learned about Meart. Meart (Multi-Electrode Array art)
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Shimmer The Summer 2006 issue of Shimmer: Available August 1. Heat makes the air shimmer. It’s too damn hot to write marketing text. Buy a copy of the Summer 2006 Shimmer. Read it. Why? 8 new stories, art, and an interview with writing team Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta. Angela Slatter, Tom Pendergrass, Paul
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To keep myself honest, I’ve decided that every day I will post the first and last sentence of whatever I’ve written that day, along with the wordcount. I’m finding it too easy to get distracted by work and other bright, shiny things. So, starting with today. I’ve begun a new science-fiction short called, The Bride
Cat Rambo at suite101 interviewed me about my work with Shimmer. We also touched on art, writing and puppetry. Check it out.
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Waking up was hard. I had planned on going to the ten o’clock panel, but by the time we checked out and put our luggage in the car it was 10:30. We wound up catching up with some folks and chatting until the eleven o’clock panels started. I went to the Interstitial Arts discussion, which
Short Fiction Locked In – Samuel, a man afflicted with ALS and locked inside his body, has hopes of communicating when his son brings home the BioDym 3000. Ginger Stuyvesant and the Case of the Haunted Nursery – In 1924, a young American heiress uses her powers as a medium to solve a haunting in
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I got a big batch of mail from the U.S. today. I got my copies of Apex Digest, which was a lot of fun. The folks in the green room are reading it and making various horrified faces. It’s fun. At the opposite end of the writing spectrum, I also got my official acceptance letter
Wired News: You Dirty, Healthy Rat Gritty rats and mice living in sewers and farms seem to have healthier immune systems than their squeaky clean cousins that frolic in cushy antiseptic labs, two studies indicate. The lesson for humans: Clean living may make us sick. The studies give more weight to a 17-year-old theory that
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