By Randy Ellefson Depending on your ability, creating names for people, places, and beings in fantasy books can either be fun or a pain. I’ve been doing this for three decades and will provide some tricks and thoughts to help. KISS KISS doesn’t really stand for “keep it simple, stupid”, but it’s a good principle […]
Read More Creating Fantasy NamesThe Waste Lands by Stephen King My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Second Best Reading Challenge; the Apocalypse Now! Reading Challenge; the Author! Author! Reading Challenge; the Need to Reread Challenge; and the Read the Sequel Reading Challenge. This book was a nominee for the Stoker Award, which qualifies it for the […]
Read More Book Review: The Waste Lands by Stephen KingOriginally posted on s a gibson:
I confess, I occasionally fantasize about writing a book which completely panders to an audience just for fame and money. However, will the Faustian bargain result in having to discard my personal pleasure in storytelling, can I have it both ways. We all know of big best selling books…
Just to note: size representation is a big deal to me. I am an ex-anorexic/bulimic. Thank you to Ms. Jackson for this great article. Please share any good fat characters you can in the comments on the article, where people will read it! Image above is fan art for Miles and his somewhat-larger brother, Mark […]
Read More A Small List of Large Characters: Fat Representation in SFFBy Mike McRae By all measures, graphene shouldn’t exist. The fact it does comes down to a neat loophole in physics that sees an impossible 2D sheet of atoms act like a solid 3D material. New research has delved into graphene’s rippling, discovering a physical phenomenon on an atomic scale that could be exploited as […]
Read More Your Pencil Lead Might Be a Source of Effectively Limitless EnergyBy Mandy Wallace So I’m working on this short story I started for some Glimmer Train contest or other. But it grew like a weed all unwieldy, and now it’s burst through its word count limit and its deadline. And I wish that was this story’s biggest problem. Its biggest problem is that I’m still struggling to balance ye old show versus […]
Read More Show Don’t TellBy Cat Rambo Cat Rambo is the current President of the SFWA. Just so you know, indie works are eligible for Nebula awards! Just sayin’. She encouraged me to throw my hat in the ring, and was kind enough to list me on her post. If you want to throw your hat into the ring, […]
Read More 2017 Award-Eligible Work Blog Posts & Roundups for F&SFOriginally posted on Working Title Blogspot:
He woke with a start. Glancing all around him, getting his bearings, he realized it was still dark, and most of his travelling companions still slept. Piper, with her mouth agape, was snoring and drooling, as usual. Above him, the sky was a canopy of brilliant starstuff. The Milky…
“The Ganymede ocean is believed to contain more water than Europa’s,” says Olivier Witasse, a project scientist working on ESA’s future Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE). “Six times more water in Ganymede’s ocean than in Earth’s ocean, and three times more than Europa.” Read the full article at Daily Galaxy.
Read More Ganymede: Jupiter’s SecretThis year was my year for being stubborn. Frustrated with my inability to find a home for my Weird Western novelette, in part I assume because of its unusual size, in part because of its unusual subject matter, I decided to publish it myself, and proceed with the Wyrd West Chronicles serial idea I had. […]
Read More My Publishing Year in Review
