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Evolutions Halloween Edition, 2009, Released
Heads up! Volume 2, Issue 1 of Darwin's Evolutions: A Journal of Speculative Fiction, is now available from Lulu as a PoD and high-quality PDF download. Here's the link:
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/evolutions-vol-2-iss-1/7904466
I'll be putting up a smaller-sized PDF file, the Mobi version, and a Kindle version in the coming week.
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Evolutions and Gender
Just for the record:
Darwin's Evolutions: A Journal of Speculative Fiction
Volume 2, Issue 1
Belated Halloween Issue
Ex-post-facto Gender breakdown by contribution:
Stories:
Male Authors: 2
Female Authors: 6
All three of the Halloween Contest winners were female.
Art:
Male Artists: 4
Female Artists: 3
Article Authors:
Male: 1 (Me)
Female: 1 (Kate)
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Nano Snippet 5
Tactical necessity:
A pair of stinging slaps brought Interrogation Services Officer Second Class Delfan Rorick back to consciousness. Bright spots danced in his field of vision while a dreadful throbbing pressure filled his head and made his ears ache. When he tried to move, he discovered that his hands and feet were bound and his back rested ( Read more... ) -
Nano Snippet 4
Eddie at home:
Eddie tossed her helmet onto the bed where it landed with a thud followed quickly by the handful of tetrahedral credit chits she had pulled from her pocket. She then scrubbed her hands in her bobbed brown hair to let the air get through the sweat to her scalp. After a few seconds of hard massaging, she pulled her fingers free and ( Read more... ) -
Nano Snippet 3
Guy Faces down "the man":
"Name?"
Guy blinked and looked at the other occupant of the small interrogation room. The man seemed oddly washed-out to him. As if life had drained his existence the same way that time had sucked most of the color from his limp salt-and-pepper hair.
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Nano Snippet 2
And today we meet our heroine:
Desert dry wind clawed at Eddie LeClerc wherever it slipped past the trim racing windshield of her slam. At over three hundred kilometers per hour and with her ass damned near dragging the dirt, letting her helmet rise even just a bit into the slipstream would buffet her head hard enough to make her neck ache. Better ( Read more... ) -
Nano Snippet 1
Since my NanoWriMo project is one that I intend to release serially on-line anyway, I'm going to start posting, say, 200 words a day, discontinuous. Little flashes, if you would, of what's happening inside the count as I slap down crappy prose as fast as I can type.
Behold, then, snippet the first:
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Guy sat cross-legged in the semi-dark on the ( Read more... ) -
NanoWriMo and Notes of the Prose and Musical Variety
I've decided that what I need to break out of my writing slump is a good dose of word count madness. Pursuant to that, I've done the previously unthinkable and joined up for the 2009 NanoWritMo which starts -- looks at watch -- in two days.
I suspect it's about time.
The subject for this rush for verbiage is going to be the story concept that I ( Read more... ) -
News and Updates, Me, Evolutions, and whatever
Long time no see, to those who might have this page friend-ed.
Just so you know, Evolutions isn't dead. In fact, I've managed to hit the Monday Fiction marker two weeks running and I have more fiction ready to go after that. The last two stories up have been "Instant Posh" by T.D. Edge and "Epilogue" by Jane Chirgwin. There are also some reviews ( Read more... )