This is a kind of story I like very much: a grim setting with characters who aren’t grimdark antiheroes, but underdog battlers against the cruel and powerful. It reminds me of Daniel Swensen’s work in that way, and also in that it’s extremely well done.
This strikes me as a careful and thoughtful approach.
+John Ward was looking for some blogs to follow. Perhaps this will help?
Originally shared by Erica Verrillo
Publishing … and Other Forms of Insanity
Here are 5 indispensable sci-fi resources to help you on your mission to get your ideas into written form.
Risks of enhanced human intelligence include insanity, social isolation, and megalomania.
Originally shared by Winchell Chung
http://io9.gizmodo.com/humans-with-amplified-intelligence-could-be-more-powerf-509309984
Some of these sentences are only difficult to understand because they lack punctuation. If you know how to punctuate, your communication becomes much clearer.
And if you don’t know how to punctuate, may I recommend my book The Well-Presented Manuscript: Just What You Need to Know to Make Your Fiction Look Professional?
Via Laura Gibbs.
Originally shared by World Economic Forum
“Most of these sentences were invented by psycholinguists to break the human mind.” Can you work them out?
A transformation in work is looming. What will it be?
Originally shared by Will Shetterly
Extensive resources.
Originally shared by Josh Roby
I have a story on submission about vertical farming, also, coincidentally, involving a father and son. It’s quite different from this story, but this is also a good one.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a20644/in-the-light-fields/
Candidates for the worst sentence ever published. I’m sure there are plenty more.
Also published today: “Gatekeeper, What Toll?” In this story, I take what would normally be a six-volume epic fantasy and shrink it to a thousandth of the size, by only showing glimpses of the fated hero as he passes through the Gate of Worlds.
Only accessible to subscribers to their website, but a $12 subscription buys you a year’s worth of stories.
This is my first pro-rate story to be published, though not the first I sold (I have another one scheduled to appear in November in Futuristica 2).