Category Archives: Cold

Excerpts and information about the novel-in-progress Cold, a science fiction novel about two young women (lesbians? yes) on a planet in the late stages of terraformation.

Reading (& writing) spacy

Posted on Thu, 1 November 2012 by Mel Green

Writing science fiction (as opposed to science fantasy) requires research & reading. Here’s some of the spacy stuff I read, so that I can write spacy too. Continue reading →

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Hallowe’en: The night my writing is raised from the dead

Posted on Wed, 31 October 2012 by Mel Green

In which I celebrate the imminent start of NaNoWriMo 2012 — & the resurrection of my writing life. Continue reading →

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Whatever in hell I’ve been doing…

Posted on Thu, 24 February 2011 by Mel Green

I haven’t been writing many posts on Henkimaa lately, but I have been (1) writing on Bent Alaska; (2) organizing my writing; (3) writing; (4) thinking about writing posts on Henkimaa. Continue reading →

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Integrity, violation, healing

Posted on Wed, 21 April 2010 by Rachel Meikäläinen

This excerpt from Rachel Meikäläinen’s Whole Numbers delves into the meaning of the word integrity. Continue reading →

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A review of my story “Cold” brings up the question: What is LGBTQ literature?

Posted on Wed, 24 March 2010 by Mel Green

A great review of the Crossed Genres Year One anthology. But for some reason the reviewer can’t figure out why my story ‘Cold’ with its two lesbian characters is labeled as LGBTQ fiction. Hello? Continue reading →

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Storyminded

Posted on Tue, 2 March 2010 by Mel Green

Two things bring on storymind tonight: a cool new blog called Science in My Fiction by my pals at Crossed Genres; & the story of murder, an interstellar spaceship, & Lord Shiva that I’m about to start working on. Continue reading →

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Writing life

Posted on Tue, 16 February 2010 by Mel Green

A writer’s progress report: reading up for the design of Consensus in Cold & Long Dark; work on “Trading Shirts”; revision of “Itch” from Finer. Continue reading →

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Building Consensus

Posted on Wed, 10 February 2010 by Mel Green

How editing Wikipedia & a fictional Martian constitutional convention influenced the Consensus government in my novel(s)-to-be. Yep, & consensus would be a better way to run our own world too, yep. Continue reading →

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Good for my worldbuilding, bad for my world

Posted on Sat, 6 February 2010 by Mel Green

One tool for inventing an imaginary story universe in science fiction is extrapolating from the present into the future. Granting corporations lots of extra power as the Supreme Court did recently is very good for my worldbuilding. But is very bad for the world I actually live in. Continue reading →

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Crossed Genres anthology released — complete w/ my story "Cold"

Posted on Mon, 1 February 2010 by Mel Green

My story “Cold,” from my novel-in-progress of the same title, is appearing again — this time in Crossed Genres‘ Year One anthology, which collects stories from each of the magazine’s first twelve issues. Continue reading →

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