I will right away take hold of your rss as I can not to find your e-mail subscription hyperlink or e-newsletter service. Do you have any? Kindly permit me know in order that I may just subscribe. Thanks.
It was very nice meeting some of you this past weekend at Astronomicon. I am very glad to have discovered your group and I hope to be able to attend one of your meetings soon.
I've watched all of these, and they were all pretty good. I think the Who-mythology episode "A Good Man Goes To War" is probably the weakest dramatically (though it does include one of the most important spoilery bits in the modern Who canon); the Gaiman episode ("The Doctor's Wife") was surprising both in how fun and how interesting it was; and "The Girl Who Waited" had a nice poignancy to it.
By contrast, the Community episode "Elementary Chaos Theory" was pure fun. It's an inventive show and even when it retreads old territory (it's arguably a sort of inverse-Rashomon), it takes the treatment in a direction that wasn't necessarily expected. I'm kind of rooting for it, frankly.
I hesitate to mention this, but io9.com also posted a review of another John Carter-based movie in which Traci Lords starred as Dejah Thoris. If I remember correctly, they said it wasn't awful.
Thank you to all who attended the event on Saturday, and thank you so much to Curtis Rivers and Mood Makers Books for hosting. 2034 is now available at Mood Makers Books, so check out the store and get your copy of the anthology.
I had the privilege of sitting in the studio during the radio event, today, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Both Mr. Garner and Mr. Smith are exceedingly gracious and put the R-SPEC folks at their ease. The R-SPEC folks did a bang-up job, to boot. Way to go, Alicia and Craig!
If you didn't catch it this afternoon, it will be rebroadcast at 11pm ET (I believe the live stream will also carry it at this time).
Good morning! Jack Garner, locally-based, nationally-syndicated film columnist, has devoted the first half of his column to our anthology, 2034: Writing Rochester's Futures. Thank you Jack!
Be sure to attend the launch event for our anthology, 2034: Writing Rochester's Futures on Saturday, 31 July 2010. See http://r-spec.org/content/2034-launch-event for more information.
On Friday, 30 July 2010, at 1pm, Alicia Henn and Craig DeLancey join Jack Garner on 1370 Connection to discuss the 2034 anthology and its launch, the next anthology, and the group overall. Check out http://r-spec.org/content/r-spec-radio for more.
The skills of these authors in delivering so much, so entertainingly! Coping with sheer tsunamis of information seems to have become a potent aspect of human life, to the extent that it rivals coping with society, coping with pain, or coping with oneself. Characters in a story must often spend time (and in suspense) distinguishing a lethal figure from a confusing ground, turning infodumping into an increasingly powerful plot tool.
Great list, great examples, broad reach.
We live in the era when information overwhelms us, and finding our way through it is a journey worth the tale.
Alas, "Melvin" is not "Rudy." A lot of the original content got entered by Melvin, or rather, by the person logged-in as Melvin at the time. Sometimes things still show up as 'Melvin' when they should be someone else, just because that person doesn't have an account on the website.
As for "Mai", I'll let David answer that for himself ;-).
It's also easy to envision a nightmare scenario where the bacterium runs rampant and solidifies sandy soils all over the place.
Who can say what effect that would have on existing plant and insect ecosystems?
We've seen analogous changes before that have had devastating consequences. Kudzu, for example, or any of the several species of carp introduced to North America for aquaculture. The scale here is much greater, though. We've reached a point in our technological development where, because the actions are on such a vast scale, our mistakes also cost radically more than they did in the past.
On Dune, no: Got right through it the first time. The stuff that bugs me about it did not bug me at all at the time. I wasn't a very ecological thinker as an 11 year old.
But there are many other books I've had that experience with, and some of them are among my favorite books.
Little, Big I had to start three times before I got into it, and now I think it's easily one of my very most favorite novels. Same with Watership Down. Only one false-start on Reservation Blues, though.
I haven't been keeping up on my reading. When do I ever? Trying to write, instead... I've read Little Brother (ripping yarn, wot!), but not likely to get to any of the other Novel picks.
I've seen WALL-E and Dark Knight twice each (I love the way the Nolans deal with moral ambiguity in their films, and Ledger was brilliant, but I have to go with WALL-E). I enjoyed "Mars: A Traveller's Guide", and didn't so much enjoy "Tomb Wife" because it just never quite came together for me.
I didn't get through Dune until my third try. There's just something about it. On the third try, I whipped through it. I guess my head wasn't ready the first two times. Anyone else have something like this experience?
This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for, so thank you Aharen. I ask others to hold off until I have a chance to post articles/posts devoted to each author except where there are other cross-genre authors in the list that I have not included in both fantasy and science fiction. Also, please note that I have not yet subdivided either broader category by sub-genre or age group, and that I've lumped horror in with fantasy. I will break out horror for sure, as well as young adult oriented works. My categorizations are hardly final - I regard this as a recursive process that, with the help of our members and visitors, will eventually resemble opinions in the greater community and that will probably expand to have pages for the broader sub-genres of speculative fiction (fantasy, horror, science fiction). <cliche>Time will tell.</cliche>
Much of the categorization will take advantage of the new tag system we have courtesy of Eric's upgrade of our site to the latest version of the engine. Thanks, again, Eric! :-)
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I will right away take hold of your rss as I can not to find your e-mail subscription hyperlink or e-newsletter service. Do you have any? Kindly permit me know in order that I may just subscribe. Thanks.
It was very nice meeting some of you this past weekend at Astronomicon. I am very glad to have discovered your group and I hope to be able to attend one of your meetings soon.
Really just one thought, post award:
It's just like Stan Schmidt to not tell anyone he's retiring until after the votes are all counted. And I mean that as a compliment.
I've watched all of these, and they were all pretty good. I think the Who-mythology episode "A Good Man Goes To War" is probably the weakest dramatically (though it does include one of the most important spoilery bits in the modern Who canon); the Gaiman episode ("The Doctor's Wife") was surprising both in how fun and how interesting it was; and "The Girl Who Waited" had a nice poignancy to it.
By contrast, the Community episode "Elementary Chaos Theory" was pure fun. It's an inventive show and even when it retreads old territory (it's arguably a sort of inverse-Rashomon), it takes the treatment in a direction that wasn't necessarily expected. I'm kind of rooting for it, frankly.
Here are some Amazon Instant Video links for the short-form dramatic category:
thank you so much!
[...] on the Island Here's a fun short story by this handsome Ukrainian writer, from 1958 Crabs on the Island by Anatoly [...]
very very nice story
I hesitate to mention this, but io9.com also posted a review of another John Carter-based movie in which Traci Lords starred as Dejah Thoris. If I remember correctly, they said it wasn't awful.
Thank you to all who attended the event on Saturday, and thank you so much to Curtis Rivers and Mood Makers Books for hosting. 2034 is now available at Mood Makers Books, so check out the store and get your copy of the anthology.
I had the privilege of sitting in the studio during the radio event, today, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Both Mr. Garner and Mr. Smith are exceedingly gracious and put the R-SPEC folks at their ease. The R-SPEC folks did a bang-up job, to boot. Way to go, Alicia and Craig!
If you didn't catch it this afternoon, it will be rebroadcast at 11pm ET (I believe the live stream will also carry it at this time).
Good morning! Jack Garner, locally-based, nationally-syndicated film columnist, has devoted the first half of his column to our anthology, 2034: Writing Rochester's Futures. Thank you Jack!
Be sure to attend the launch event for our anthology, 2034: Writing Rochester's Futures on Saturday, 31 July 2010. See http://r-spec.org/content/2034-launch-event for more information.
On Friday, 30 July 2010, at 1pm, Alicia Henn and Craig DeLancey join Jack Garner on 1370 Connection to discuss the 2034 anthology and its launch, the next anthology, and the group overall. Check out http://r-spec.org/content/r-spec-radio for more.
The skills of these authors in delivering so much, so entertainingly! Coping with sheer tsunamis of information seems to have become a potent aspect of human life, to the extent that it rivals coping with society, coping with pain, or coping with oneself. Characters in a story must often spend time (and in suspense) distinguishing a lethal figure from a confusing ground, turning infodumping into an increasingly powerful plot tool.
Great list, great examples, broad reach.
We live in the era when information overwhelms us, and finding our way through it is a journey worth the tale.
It's also easy to envision a nightmare scenario where the bacterium runs rampant and solidifies sandy soils all over the place.
Who can say what effect that would have on existing plant and insect ecosystems?
We've seen analogous changes before that have had devastating consequences. Kudzu, for example, or any of the several species of carp introduced to North America for aquaculture. The scale here is much greater, though. We've reached a point in our technological development where, because the actions are on such a vast scale, our mistakes also cost radically more than they did in the past.
I don't know what a APA 45 publication is, but that is what Visions of Paradise is called at this site, efanzines.com, which posts VoP:
http://efanzines.com/VoP/VoP139.pdf
Just in case the existing links don't get there, here is a link for the F&SF stories that were nominated: http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/fiction/neb08.htm
This comment showed up as from Anonymous, but it's posted by eDave.
On Dune, no: Got right through it the first time. The stuff that bugs me about it did not bug me at all at the time. I wasn't a very ecological thinker as an 11 year old.
But there are many other books I've had that experience with, and some of them are among my favorite books.
Little, Big I had to start three times before I got into it, and now I think it's easily one of my very most favorite novels. Same with Watership Down. Only one false-start on Reservation Blues, though.
I haven't been keeping up on my reading. When do I ever? Trying to write, instead... I've read Little Brother (ripping yarn, wot!), but not likely to get to any of the other Novel picks.
I've seen WALL-E and Dark Knight twice each (I love the way the Nolans deal with moral ambiguity in their films, and Ledger was brilliant, but I have to go with WALL-E). I enjoyed "Mars: A Traveller's Guide", and didn't so much enjoy "Tomb Wife" because it just never quite came together for me.
I didn't get through Dune until my third try. There's just something about it. On the third try, I whipped through it. I guess my head wasn't ready the first two times. Anyone else have something like this experience?
This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for, so thank you Aharen. I ask others to hold off until I have a chance to post articles/posts devoted to each author except where there are other cross-genre authors in the list that I have not included in both fantasy and science fiction. Also, please note that I have not yet subdivided either broader category by sub-genre or age group, and that I've lumped horror in with fantasy. I will break out horror for sure, as well as young adult oriented works. My categorizations are hardly final - I regard this as a recursive process that, with the help of our members and visitors, will eventually resemble opinions in the greater community and that will probably expand to have pages for the broader sub-genres of speculative fiction (fantasy, horror, science fiction). <cliche>Time will tell.</cliche>
Much of the categorization will take advantage of the new tag system we have courtesy of Eric's upgrade of our site to the latest version of the engine. Thanks, again, Eric! :-)