The man who did more than any writer to define the look and feel of high fantasy died yesterday. His Conan style paintings covered best selling paperbacks from the 1960s on. Frank Frazetta Dies – Comics Illustrator Was 82 – Biography – NYTimes.com.
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: May 2010
$20,000 in a week
Friday, May 7, 2010
I lost some money this week in the market crash. I hope to make it back next week. You can’t think about this stuff. The stock market goes up and down. I never really had the money in the first place. This is all paper money. I won’t start taking money out until I retire […]
Retracing Rover’s Steps out of Victoria Crater
Thursday, May 6, 2010
This incredible animate gif loops through retracing Rover’s Steps out of Victoria Crater. I love the Mars Rovers. Let’s think of a good story where the rover saves the day. Maybe a murder mystery where the guy who programs the rover is murdered but leaves a clue in the path the rover is programmed to […]
Blocked
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Each morning I open a bunch of blogs and read them during the day as I get bored. This morning about half of them were blocked by the County firewall software. It looks like the county has blocked most of the blogger blogspot sites. I will now have to wait until I get home to […]
Tor.com – who knew?
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
I just found out that Tor.com has been accepting short stories and pays pro rates. I missed this entirely. They are not listed in Duotrope or any of the other market guides. Their current response time is well over 6 months, but they have just hired on another editor and that may change. Now, all […]
Asimov’s Opens to Electronic Submissions
Monday, May 3, 2010
The big pro magazines have required snail mail submissions forever. I always thought that the $3 postage cost of submitting to them was a kind of toll gate that was maintained to keep the submission levels at a tolerable level. As it is the pro slush piles are 10s of thousands of stories per year […]
Genre Mall Bestsellers
Sunday, May 2, 2010
My name appears in the table of contents of 3 of the top 5 best sellers for the month of April at the Genre Mall. Note to editors: You need to buy more stories from this Graham guy. Genre Mall Bestsellers.
Buy the Book!
I cleaned up my tab for Sonny Boy's Help Me and made it into a short book. There's a Kindle version for 99 cents, and if you buy the paperback you get the Kindle free.
Playing "Help-Me" In the Style of Sonny Boy Williamson II: A step by step, note for note analysis of some of Sonny Boy's Signature Riffs
I also write Science Fiction, so you can sample some of my best stories. Also available in Kindle format.
Error Message Eyes: A Programmer's Guide to the Digital Soul
Keith Graham's CThreePO.com Links
I started reading Science Fiction in the 1950s. I started Writing SF in the 1960s. Then, I had a life.
Now I am retired, raising chickens and keeping bees. I am still an avid reader and I have sold about 70 stories in the last
20 years.
I have been collecting information about writing Science Fiction for many years now. Social media has replaced the Blog and
large dedicated websites, so the pages here are mostly static. I update them from time to time.
Enjoy!
- About/Contact
- Book Reviews
- Buy The Book!
- Google Spec Fic Market Search form.
- Image Gallery Testing Page
- Keith’s Short Stories
- Main
- My Morning Reads
- News
- Random Short Story Title – based on hugo awards
- Reviewing
- The Earring
- The Science Fiction Laboratory
- Alien Life – What could it be like?
- Are Aliens Listening – The Local Equation
- Baby Black Holes
- How do aliens think?
- List of stars closer than 20 light years
- Properties of a uniformly expanding universe
- Quantum Mechanics or Whatever Happened to Reality?
- Space Math
- The Physics of Faster Than Light Travel
- What will real Aliens be like?
- Writing Science Fiction
- 10 Laws of Good Science Fiction
- 13 Rules for Writing a Great Short Story
- 17 Steps to Writing and Selling a Science Fiction Story
- Adverb Detector
- Banned Words Detector (Lake Superior State University List)
- Cellular Automata and Fiction
- Channeling Murray Leinster
- Character Sheet Generator
- Chesly Bonestell, Mr. Smith Goes to Venus, March, 1950
- How to write while the boss is watching.
- Huge List of Submission Guideline Pages
- iPad for (cheap) Authors
- List of Science Fiction Clichés
- Old Stuff – Another Big List of Submission Guidelines
- Preparing Your Manuscript
- Required Reading List
- Schenectady Writers Service
- Science Fiction and Death
- Science Fiction Blogs
- Science Fiction Story Starters
- Submitting Stories – The SF Game Plan
- The Black Hole Extensions
- The eZine Thing
- Unicode Character Fixup Script
- Weasel Word Detector
- Javascript Games and Toys
- Other Odd Pages
- Money Making Schemes
Book Reviews
- Anathem, Neal Stephenson (2008)(3)
- Ray Bradbury - The Illustrated M...
- Polymath, John Brunner (1974)(1)
- Orbit Unlimited (1961) -Poul And...
- Conquest of Earth by Manly Banis...
- Stand On Zanzibar by John Brunne...
- New Worlds Number 4(0)
- New Worlds(0)
- The Triumph of Time, James Blish...
- The Webs of Everywhere, John Bru...
- Manshape, John Brunner (1982)(0)
- The Infinitive of Go, John Brunn...
- The Serpent Mage (1986) -Greg Be...
- Echo X by Ben Barzman (1960)(0)
- Black Glass by John Shirley (20...
- Quicksand, John Brunner (1967)(0)
- Galaxy Magazine, August 1959(0)
- The Annual 1978 World's Best SF(0)
- Fantasy and Science Fiction Maga...
- Brigands of the Moon. Ray Cummin...
- Voyage to the City of the Dead, ...
- The Sword of Rhiannon, Leigh Bra...
- Rogue in Space by Frederic Brown...
- The other Side of the Sky by Art...
- Bradbury Odds and Ends(0)
- Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked ...
- Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chron...
- The Vintage Bradbury(0)
- Lorelei of the Red Mist - Bracke...
- Year 2018! by James Blish (1957)(0)
- Ray Bradbury - The Machineries o...
- Ray Bradbury - A Medicine For Me...
- Ray Bradbury Prune Commercial(0)
- Free Ray Bradbury Story MP3 File...
- Ray Bradbury - The October Count...
- Ray Bradbury - Quicker Than the ...
- Ray Brabury - Golden Apples of t...
- Ray Bradbury - The Cat's Pajamas(0)
- Ray Bradbury - Zen in the Art of...
- 6 From Worlds Beyond, ed. T. E. ...
- Born Under Mars, John Brunner (1...
- The Worlds of Poul Anderson, Pou...
- Llana of Gathol, Edgar Rice Burr...
- Voices From The Sky, Arthur C. C...
- Siege Perilous, Lester Del Rey (...
- D-99, H.B. Fyfe (1966)(0)
- The Cost of Kindness and Other F...
- Tales - Mystery and Occultism, E...
- A Life for the Stars, James Blis...
- Timescoop by John Brunner (1969)(0)
- John Brunner, The Dramaturges of...
- Frontera by Lewis Shiner (1984)(0)
- Nebula Alert by A. Bertram Chand...
- Bleak History by John Shirley (2...
- Earthman, Come Home, James Blish...
Please note, the comments on this site are historical from when the site was a Blog. The web pages are now static, and there is no mechanism for leaving comments.