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My young-YA/middle-grade fantasy Fireboy, already a finalist for Best Young Adult Novel in this year’s Aurora Awards and finalist for a 2027 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award in the Northern Lights Division, has just been …
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My young-YA/middle-grade fantasy Fireboy, a nominee for Best Young Adult Novel in this year’s Aurora Awards, is also a finalist for the 2027 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award in the Northern Lights Division. This is …
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I spent a good chunk of today at Wordbridge, the annual writers’ conference in Lethbridge, Alberta. My main reason for coming was to launch a Shadowpaw Press title (Broken Realm by Jenna Greene, a Lethbridge …
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A hands-on approach to data manipulation
Don a pair of reflective gloves and this new computer interface lets you manipulate images on the screen just by moving your hands.
New Scientist seems to think this idea was original with Minority Report, but I’m pretty sure it’s been widespread in written science fiction for years, if not decades. I used a hand-waving computer interface in the opening scene of my unpublished novel Assignment: Avalon when I wrote it almost 20 years ago, and I didn’t think it was original then.
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