Well, I did it again: led the Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop (created by science fiction and fantasy author James van Pelt) at a writing conference, this time, Wordbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. Here’s the story I …
It’s time for this year’s Kickstarter to fund Shapers of Worlds Volume V, the fifth in the series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The …
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Here’s another seven-sentence short story! I ran the workshop again at Ganbatte, an anime convention in Saskatoon. It went well, and here’s the one I created, again with the instructions, created by noted SF short-story …
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One of these things is not like the other…
From the CBC:
James Doohan’s ashes headed for orbit
Plans are on schedule for the remains of Star Trek actor James Doohan to head to a final frontier on Saturday.
The Vancouver-born actor’s ashes are to be launched into suborbital space on a rocket launched from a private desert spaceport near Upham, N.M.
So which is it, CBC? Are the ashes going into orbit, or just on a suborbital flight? Big difference. One way, the ashes remain in space for a considerable amount of time stretching all the way up to permanently, depending on the orbit. The other way, the ashes are (presumably) scattered at the edge of space and simply merge with the upper fringes of the atmosphere.
But you can’t have both, so it’s a rather glaring contradiction between headline and story.
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