Concept Sci-Fi Short Story Competition
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adelaideseanConcept Sci-fi is hosting its first annual Short Story Competition, offering entrants a chance to win £100 plus some signed goodies from competition judge, um, me.
Details in the link above. It's a themed competition. Here's the blurb:
Frank Zappa once said that everything in the universe is part of one great big note. He wasn't far wrong. There's music in the earth's core, in the sun's atmosphere, even in the roiling fire of the Big Bang. There's music in our interior lives too, in the stories we tell. "Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable", according to Leonard Bernstein, which makes it a perfect tool in the writing of space opera--my true but not my only love.
Way back in the late 1980s, I had to choose between two lives: one writing words and another writing notes. In an alternate universe, there's a version of me beavering away at a new symphony, or the score to a Hollywood movie. Here, the closest I get is putting Gary Numan lyrics in the mouths of my characters, and dreaming.
Dream for me. Tell me the note that ripples through spacetime in the wake of an ftl cruiser. Convey to me the songs that alien cephalopods whistle in their jovian soup. Give me the music of the spheres as you hear it. When the echoes fade, we'll all be richer for it.
Details in the link above. It's a themed competition. Here's the blurb:
Frank Zappa once said that everything in the universe is part of one great big note. He wasn't far wrong. There's music in the earth's core, in the sun's atmosphere, even in the roiling fire of the Big Bang. There's music in our interior lives too, in the stories we tell. "Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable", according to Leonard Bernstein, which makes it a perfect tool in the writing of space opera--my true but not my only love.
Way back in the late 1980s, I had to choose between two lives: one writing words and another writing notes. In an alternate universe, there's a version of me beavering away at a new symphony, or the score to a Hollywood movie. Here, the closest I get is putting Gary Numan lyrics in the mouths of my characters, and dreaming.
Dream for me. Tell me the note that ripples through spacetime in the wake of an ftl cruiser. Convey to me the songs that alien cephalopods whistle in their jovian soup. Give me the music of the spheres as you hear it. When the echoes fade, we'll all be richer for it.
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Date: 2009-01-27 10:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-27 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-27 10:45 pm (UTC)*In the original story, Zann scribbles out a bunch of notes purportedly explaining his unique "history." These notes are sucked out the window at the end and are supposedly gone. Well...someone ends up finding them--at least a few pages--scattered through town and attempts to put them in some sort of order, with expected surreal results.
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Date: 2009-01-28 10:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-29 12:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-29 01:50 am (UTC)I love that his name, according the Great Wiki, is "a sort of portmanteau from TAngerine DREam's album FORce MAjeure".
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Date: 2009-01-29 02:46 am (UTC)Automate = supercooled helium chillout noises.
Navigator = soundtrack to "The Call of Cthulhu".
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Date: 2009-01-27 10:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-27 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-27 10:31 pm (UTC)Also, what are your other loves, and does space opera ever get jealous?
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Date: 2009-01-27 10:36 pm (UTC)The heat is horrible. I wish I could go to sleep and wake up in March.
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Date: 2009-01-27 11:41 pm (UTC)Sort of haiku for you.
Date: 2009-01-28 05:28 am (UTC)you can hear the universe,
humming showtunes.
Re: Sort of haiku for you.
Date: 2009-01-28 05:32 am (UTC)Re: Sort of haiku for you.
Date: 2009-01-28 05:59 am (UTC)Thank you for the compliment btw
Re: Sort of haiku for you.
Date: 2009-01-28 10:42 pm (UTC)