Post A Rejection Day
That’s apparently what today has been declared. Several folks have already done it (Tobias Buckell, Justine Larbalesteir, Willow Fagan, and likely many others.). So, throwing aside personal integrity, I thought I’d do the same thing. So I decided I’d post two of them. No mentions of the stories or which markets, for obvious reasons. Here is the first one: Shaun, Thanks, but it’s not for us. We look for the new, so we tend to stay away from the suite of elements like AI, wetware, near-future dystopias and so on which have become as ubiquitous in SF as wizards, fairies and monarchies are in fantasy. These ideas have been strip mined for more than twenty years now, and there’s very little life left in them which doesn’t depend on significant renovation from the familiar. We didn’t find that here; instead, moments like this: [redacted] could have been lifted from any number of cyberhappy SF literature, movies and TV we’ve all seen before. That all roughly translated to “don’t write crap from the 80s”, which totally makes sense now. And for something happier: Dear Shaun, Thank you for submitting [redacted] to [redacted]. It was well receivedhere, but after some thought we have decided not to accept it forpublication. I hope you’ll consider us again, and I wish you the best success inplacing this story elsewhere. So, yeah! Good stuff. Hope you all enjoy it.
Mutant Chronicles Teaser
Not sure if anyone else has seen this already, but I’m really interested in this show/movie (not sure which) now. Watch the trailer. It’s not a high quality one (and most of the effects either look like they’re for TV or unfinished), but it does seem rather interesting. Looks promising though. Anywho. (Don’t click the read more, there isn’t any more after this!)
A Mere 85 Years
That’s the shortest period of time it would take us to get to the closest star (Proxima Centauri) with current realistic technology according to this Universe Today article. And what do I have to say about it?What’s the freaking hold up? Seriously. Eight-five years is pretty good time considering it’s over four lightyears to the nearest star. Heck, I’d probably volunteer to go if my girlfriend could go with me. So, where are our Orion Project rockets and such? Where are our nuclear pulse engines to drive us at five percent the speed of light? Someone over and NASA better be paying attention. I demand you get on top of it! Somebody’s tax dollars are paying for you folks to do something good…so, there better be cool nuclear-powered engine things in our near future! On a side note: Does anyone know how long it would take, factoring in the acceleration and deceleration, to get from here to Mars with one of those pulse engines? Because, if it’s a technology we could really utilize, we might want to consider it as a quicker way of getting us there and back. Just saying. (Don’t click the read more, there isn’t any more after this!)