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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R.I.P. Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke has died at age 90.
He was the last surviving member of the “Big Three” of science fiction: Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein having gone on before.
Those were names to conjur with when I was a kid, and they’re among the primary reasons I write SF today.
I regret I never met any of them in person, though I did write Asimov a couple of times and received a couple of treasured postcards in return. They were proof these authorial heroes of mine were living people.
Now, alas, none of them are.
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