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.
New Roundbottom Live
Filed Under: My Writing, Photography, Speculative Fiction
The concluding chapter of the Case of the Steam Wraith is now live on the Dr. Rounbottom website.
This four-part story has had some bumps, and if I wasn’t writing without a net, I can see some edits that I would make. I’m going to try to write these things farther in advance of posting in the future so that I can smooth out some of the inconsistencies that develop. It’s far easier to write one-shot observational posts than the storyline based posts. I made some strides towards that goal of getting ahead this weekend, designing a new capture and we’ll hopefully get a podcast made this week as well.
One problem with writing the posts in advance is that I like having Roundbottom being responsive to the comments. one of the things that sets this project aside from the usual fiction serial is this aspect of involving the input of the audience. If you weren’t aware of that–Roundbottom does interact with his readers, so if you want to jump into the story, you’re perfectly able to do so. Just start posting comments. Make up a character for yourself if you like. I’m not sure who my commenters are because of the aliases, and it’s a blast to read what they have to say on things.
I hope you enjoy!
New Jeremiad: Twenty Things I Learned From Bad 80s Genre Films
Filed Under: Uncategorized
I was asking you all about bad 80s movies for this article that has now gone live on Fantasy Magazine.
It’s kind of an odd mix of childhood nostalgia, remembrance of my father, and 80s movie jokes. I hope you enjoy it.