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Reading: 1633 by Eric Flint and David Weber
Music: John Hartford's Me-Oh-My, How the Time Does Fly
TV/Movie: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doooooooom
Link o' the Day: A Penny Arcade explosion
And welcome to Tuesday.
Dealt with a couple of more rejection slips over the past few days. One was kind of a surprise as I thought I had a perfect-fit for this particular anthology--unfortunately that old "recursive" science fiction bug bit me in the ass again. I'm stubborn, however, and will continue to try and place this--one of my favorite stories.
The other two stories that went back out into the slushpiles this morning are good stories as well. One is a little too "golden age" for most editors, and the other is one of those hard-to-place sort of stories that experiments a little with form.
We'll see what happens. In the meantime, I have new stories being worked on.
* * *
Things blow up. That's how Karl Schroeder (I believe) described space opera. He may have a point. In looking over the various space opera/adventure novels I have lying around--lots of stuff blows up. Even planets and suns. I'm reading 1633 by David Weber and Eric Flint right now, and I've just watched a Spanish galleon get blown up. (Okay, this book may be more "alternative history" than space opera, but they both have written other books in the space opera tradition. (David Weber in particular who doesn't seem happy unless he's blowing something up.)
Have I blown anything up? Lessee... in my short story "Rolf at Ragnarok," I let aliens blow up space-based defense systems and a good portion of the Earth. Lessee... does anything else get blown up? Hmmm... not that I can recall. Well, a novel I've started has a hotel being blown up. And later on a city gets blown up. And I might blow up a spaceship near the end. Or maybe a moon. There are other, more minor explosions here and there as well--so I suppose I'm maintaining the tradition.
* * *
And because we're talking about blow-ups, here's a Penny Arcade comic from 1999 featuring, what else? An explosion.
Enjoy!
Music: John Hartford's Me-Oh-My, How the Time Does Fly
TV/Movie: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doooooooom
Link o' the Day: A Penny Arcade explosion
And welcome to Tuesday.
Dealt with a couple of more rejection slips over the past few days. One was kind of a surprise as I thought I had a perfect-fit for this particular anthology--unfortunately that old "recursive" science fiction bug bit me in the ass again. I'm stubborn, however, and will continue to try and place this--one of my favorite stories.
The other two stories that went back out into the slushpiles this morning are good stories as well. One is a little too "golden age" for most editors, and the other is one of those hard-to-place sort of stories that experiments a little with form.
We'll see what happens. In the meantime, I have new stories being worked on.
* * *
Things blow up. That's how Karl Schroeder (I believe) described space opera. He may have a point. In looking over the various space opera/adventure novels I have lying around--lots of stuff blows up. Even planets and suns. I'm reading 1633 by David Weber and Eric Flint right now, and I've just watched a Spanish galleon get blown up. (Okay, this book may be more "alternative history" than space opera, but they both have written other books in the space opera tradition. (David Weber in particular who doesn't seem happy unless he's blowing something up.)
Have I blown anything up? Lessee... in my short story "Rolf at Ragnarok," I let aliens blow up space-based defense systems and a good portion of the Earth. Lessee... does anything else get blown up? Hmmm... not that I can recall. Well, a novel I've started has a hotel being blown up. And later on a city gets blown up. And I might blow up a spaceship near the end. Or maybe a moon. There are other, more minor explosions here and there as well--so I suppose I'm maintaining the tradition.
* * *
And because we're talking about blow-ups, here's a Penny Arcade comic from 1999 featuring, what else? An explosion.
Enjoy!
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