Happy August Day! Don’t forget to dress like Caesar Augustus and sacrifice a bull to Mithras! Wait, that is a thing on August Day, isn’t it? If not, it should be. And then it would evolve into sacrificing all bull, meaning you cannot tell a lie on August day. Then that would drive a whole […]
I’m starting Occupy Writing. First Item: Novels have art on the cover. Why don’t art books have flash fiction on the cover?! UNFAIR! I’m talking a nice, white cover with black print, featuring an original short story intended to sum up the entirety of the artwork within, yet oddly is always titled something like “Sexy
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I see many of my writer friends posting about their anticipation of something called the NFL. I can only assume this is a National Fictioneers League? Well good! It’s about time authors got the network attention they deserve. Although I think it’s a shame the way students get a free ride just because they’re good
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/Begin Transmission/ So, I followed clues left in several newspaper ads and found my way to Prometheus Produce, hoping to discover the origin of the amazing deal. Signs at the entrance advised that I use standard bagging precautions, but being a pseudo-scientist I knew that to truly understand something, you have to look at it
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Today, SpaceX’s Dragon capsule docked with the International Space Station. A huge step towards commercial passenger flights into space and galactic Empire! And of course, the company hired specialists to help them achieve their goal.
My story “Surviving the eBookalypse”, a satire about the future for books and their authors, is now live on Escape Pod: http://escapepod.org/2012/01/19/ep328-surviving-the-ebookalypse/ I wrote this story during Clarion West, partly as a response to a doom and gloom speech I heard on the future of the publishing industry. But folks like Mary Robinette Kowal and Cory Doctorow
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Man, that’s a totally pimpin ride! I never knew Barbie was so cool. Oh, wait, of course! It is from Jem and the Holograms, not Barbie. Jem is to Barbie as Lady Gaga is to Hannah Montana. I”m pretty sure that’s on SAT tests, and if not, it should be. Hey, a whole set
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Per the “lessinterestingbooks” meme, here’s my contribution: The Dresden Tax Files. The Slightly Peckish Games. Anansi Boys Band. Cattlefield Earth. Ender’s Game of Candyland. 20,000 Leeks Under the Sea. Or 0.20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Memory, Sorrow, Myspace: Poem of Farewell. Jonathon Strange & Mister Norrell’s Long Distance Calling Plan. Journey to the Surface of
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My epic flash fiction tale about Framdar “The Slayer” Deathkiller, which I read as an example of writing so bad it is funny for the Norwescon panel “Bad Writing, No Cookie”, is now up at Every Day Fiction: http://www.everydayfiction.com/the-most-epicly-awesomest-story-ever-by-randy-henderson/
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First, let me just say I wish I had the time and skill to video mash-up Doctor Horrible talking about The Hammer with scenes from Thor. But I made you this picture instead. Thor was simple action movie fun. I had hoped for more substance, with Kenneth Branagh directing and the gravitas and richness of
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