Ray Bradbury & Prunes
Filed Under: Speculative Fiction
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Doesn’t he hate being called a SF writer?
Archive for the ‘Speculative Fiction’ Category
New Roundbottom: The Carrier Snail (And Desktops!)
Filed Under: Photography, Speculative Fiction
Good morning! It’s Monday, and that means Dr. Roundbottom has updated his website with yet another scientific discovery. I’m particularly happy with the work on this entry, photographically speaking. The Carrier Snail is quite a nice photonic capture if I do say so myself.
As a teaser for the kind of thing you can expect to receive as a member of the Roundbottom Society, I’ve created a set of desktop backgrounds of this week’s capture.
Desktop Backgrounds
800×600
1024×768
1440×900
1600×1200
1680×1050
1900×1200
If you have a resolution that isn’t listed, drop me a line and I’ll make you one in your desktop resolution.
In other Roundbottom news, we had a recording session over the weekend for the first Roundbottom podcast. Thanks to the help of our friend Nate Periat, this thing is going to sound about 100x better than I ever expected it to. You can most likely look forward to hearing that next week!
Alternate History Story Idea for Someone
Filed Under: Speculative Fiction
This is not an idea for me, but for someone else. Write an alt history where the point of divergence is that the followers of Presbyter Arius of Alexandra win out over the adherents of St. Athanasius the Great. How do you think that would change history?
SF: Mind Meld- Changing SF
Filed Under: My Writing, SF Business, Speculative Fiction
I was asked, along with the rest of the authors in Seeds of Change to make suggestions for change in the field of science fiction. Regular readers can probably guess exactly what I said, but check it out and see what you think. Not as revolutionary as I might have been in my youth, but still calling for big changes.
There are a lot of things I wouldn’t mind seeing changed in science fiction, but they mostly revolve around growing the audience. I am most interested in creating ways for people who would like science fiction short fiction to learn that it even exists. At one time, the defunct magazine SF Age had nearly 175,000 in sales of a single issue. The largest circulation of any magazine is barely over 20,000 today and has been falling for nearly a decade.
That’s probably the last thing I’ll say on the issue of the magazines for a while. I’m going to focus my energy on getting my work inside of them, instead of worrying about saving them. It’s wasted energy at this point and has become just another way for me to focus on the wrong things.
