I have become a Captain Beefheart fan. I love the song Grow Fins and wrote a story where a key plot point involves growing fins. Chris loaded it up at StaticMovementOnline.com. It is part of their invitation only issue, so I am honored to have been included. Here is a Media player clip of Grow […]
Wanderings
Resources for Science Fiction: Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. – Ray Bradbury
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Good Reading – Leinster and Campbell
Thursday, February 22, 2007
John W. Campbell, Jr. and Murray Leinster, my favorite editor and my favorite short story writer, have been long dead and have left some of their work behind in the public domain. I am guessing that the magazines were slow to spend the money to renew copyrights and the authors were negligent in maintaining them. […]
Louis Slobodkin
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Probably the first Science Fiction Book that I ever read was Spaceship Under the Apple Tree by Louis Slobodkin. Today, SFSignal.com pointed to his personal website. Yesterday was his birthday (he died in 1975). I shocked the librarian at Hilltop Elementary School in Nyack by asking for more spaceship stories. What she showed me was […]
Common Ties » Submit a Story
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Here’s a quick paying market for anyone who has true stories up to 2,000 words. It pays $100 and you can submit as many as you like. It is looking for “Lucky Break” stories right now. Coming up is religion (March 9, stories due March 6). Future themes may include travel, idiosyncrasies, crime, family secrets, […]
P n E
Sunday, February 18, 2007
My fictional fiction was bumped down to position 25 from position 8. In fact, all of the Samsdotters, AR-ers and StaticMo’s were dropped out of the running in the SF story category. I altered their Top Ten image so we can all proudly display it on our websites.2006 Short Story – Science Fiction Results:
iRobot – Create
Friday, February 16, 2007
I saw this. It is on sale at iRobot for $115. The only problem is that it does not actually vacuum your floor. It would be just an expensive toy if it didn’t actually do anything useful. Still, I might enjoy confunding the cats with a robot, perhaps tying a raccoon tail to the thing […]
Paying for Clicks
Monday, February 12, 2007
For quite a while I’ve had Google Adsense ads on my websites. I can’t put them here, because I discuss the ads on this website and I don’t want to violate the Google TOS. I must say that I am very happy with the ads. Google won’t let me publish the statistics, but I can […]
Mom’s Stories
Monday, February 12, 2007
I am asking for help from blog readers. My mother, turning 80 years young this summer, has been writing down little stories in a spiral notebook. She now wants to see some of her stories in print. These stories are simple stories about little boys and girls who have little adventures. One that I read […]