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- cannonball19788
Negotiating the contract for a third story in another pro-paying market. I think I'm getting a handle on this writing SciFi stuff.
- Fantastic. Can I ask how you got your foot in the door? I have some horror shorts I'd love to get out in the world.mugwart
- Really happy for you. Let us know how it goesmugwart
- I just submit the story with a cover letter and hope for the bestcannonball1978
- Had a couple romance stories that were rejected because I kept ending it with a scifi/horror twist. Where are you submitting yours?futurefood
- Thanks, I only asked as I had a script stolen after I submitted. Wondered if you had managed to get an agent first or something. Think I'll bite the bullet agaimugwart
- Agents don't rep short stories usually. I send mine everywhere. Constant string of submissions.cannonball1978
- I've been struggling to start an anthology series, bogged down in the research.i_monk
- Write an anthology or edit/publish one?cannonball1978
- Write.i_monk
- cannonball19781
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/…
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- I loved this bookcannonball1978
- Oh cool! I just started re-reading this the other week :) (I'm not that a slow reader - i just haven't picked it up for a few days!)detritus
- Started re-reading Lem over the past weeks as well - some of it is laugh out aloud funny... much to my partner's disgruntlement :)detritus
- CULTURE!!!!!!
Hope they let someone take a risk with it.thumb_screws
- duckseason1
Anyone happen to know who the artist is?
- i_monk3
- That looks pretty badass!MondoMorphic
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teeereteteeeeeeeeeee...sted - I'm shocked...thsi actually looks really good.utopian
- spider smith approves.sted
- https://inception.da…pablo28
- ^ this guy gets it. I have always loved Lost In Space - robots, talking carrots, Judy in her silver outfit. Looking forward to this.face_melter
- So is that Robbie the Robot or did he tame an alien?see_thru
- Ah, my bad...different robot. I thought it appeared in both this and Forbidden Planet.see_thru
- Jesus christ, that gave me goosebumps!elahon
- @see_thru - Robbie DID appear in Lost in Space - ROBOT BATTLE
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- i_monk2
The new Jupiter 2:
- Hope they at least have the decency to reboot BlawpSlashPeckham
- plash5
- I think Gibson has said that out of all the editions of Neuromancer, this is his favourite cover.face_melter
- I'd have to agree_niko
- "NEUROMANGER" A thinking man's Christmas.fadein11
- So, so great.********
- Beeswax1
Good production value
Hit or miss stories/episodes
Suppresses Black Mirror cravings
- monospaced0
Currently into the second book of this trilogy. So far so good! Anyone else go through these?
- I've read those. Halfway through 2312. Shaman was also pretty good, although slow.cannonball1978
- I read Years of Rice and Salt a long time ago and was blown away by this author. Let us know how 2312 is when you’re done. Cheers.monospaced
- I have to say, it was very gratifying being selected for a writing workshop after he read one of my stories and gave it a thumbs up.cannonball1978
- Also, I can already tell you 2312 is worth it.cannonball1978
- Nice!monospaced
- monospaced0
Better image of Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.
- My goal is to read one good sci-fi book this summer. is this good or is isaac asimov a better start?hotroddy
- Somehow I've only read Blue Mars.i_monk
- did not likedasohr
- Asimov is better I think.
Why read the last book in a trilogy first???monospaced - An 11-year-old kid who didn't know it was a trilogy, whose school library only had that book of the trilogy. That's who.i_monk
- :)monospaced
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- cannonball19784
Sold another story. Smaller press, but funny story about a kid with a cloaca on his chest who hooks up with a new girl at school and ends up laying a fucked up egg.
- Nairn2
'The Star'
From The Nine Billion Names of God: The Best Short Stories of Arthur C. Clark
- Nairn1
I dun goofed.
Being Christmas, I tend to leave the UK for a week or two, so on a recent scan of second hand shops I was pleased to see a nice thicki-ish book by Liu Cixin for a quid, as I've been wanting to read 'The Three Body Problem' for a while now. Perfect for the holiday! I packed it along with a couple of old Lem Books I wanted to read again (Futurological Congress and Solaris) and here I am, abroad. Finished the Lem books in fucking no time because I'm an amazing reader and perhaps possibly because they're thin books with large type.
I start the Cixin book last night with wary anticipation - sure enough it's quickly made clear that This Is A Book Written By Someone From Chinese Culture; there's a sort of fundamental difference in philosophy and density, a shift in prose style and construction, but all very enjoyably so. As soon as my tired old brain fits itself into a new regime, I get into it and find it all very enjoyable - particularly the way it reveals itself, peeling itself back post hoc, but not in too confusing a time-jumpy fashion, except.. it's not quite. At some point a chapter or so in it's clear that there's a fundamental assumption that will not be explained and - oh fuck - there's a mention of "the three body system".
I'm reading the second part to the book I actually wanted to read, aren't I? Twat.
Now I have nothing left to read and am only a small few days in to my fucking holiday in a foreign country where I won't be able to buy any English matter - at least, stuff I'd want.
And I forgot the plug converter for my laptop, so unless I find one soon, I'm not even going to be able to read shit on the internet either. Goodbye.
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tl;don't read.Nairn - No kindle? This is the safe boat for strong readers in the xxi century mate...OBBTKN
- Or you can read on your smartphone, no english writen book store near you?? Where are going to holidays, to Mordor??OBBTKN
- Yyyeah, I know. I know! I've held off from the Kindle as I'd always expected there to be a load of equivalent open platforms, but eReaders never really did thatNairn
- Perhaps this is the spur I need.
Also - could fit a fuckload more books in my baggage!Nairn - Feliz Navidad, hombre!Nairn
- You can load your reader with tons of .mobi books, out of amazon store, np.
Eguberri on you too man!!OBBTKN - "a shift in prose style and construction" ooor its poorly written with cool ideascannonball1978
- I think I was trying to infer that I felt it being written by someone from a culture vastly different from mine, but whatever - I'm not a writer.Nairn
- Out of interest, have you read any of his stuff, cannonball?Nairn
- I read three body problem. It's a translation but the exposition and dialogue was rather unsophisticated. I don't know what that says about Chinese writing.cannonball1978
- oops.