Tag Archives: science fiction

Storyminded

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 2 March 2010

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.

Posted in About writing, Long Dark | Also tagged Asura (Long Dark), C.J. Cherryh, CELSS, Consensus (Cold), criminal justice (Cold & Long Dark), Crossed Genres, Cyteen, dolphins, Esti Gusev (Long Dark), Joss Whedon, Jyoti (Long Dark), Kay Holt, NaNoWriMo 2009, Science in My Fiction (blog), Sheraton Anchorage, Shiva, storymind, The Golden Compass (movie), worldbuilding, writing | 2 Comments

Building Consensus

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 10 February 2010

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.

Posted in About writing, Cold, No Way Way | Also tagged Battle of Washita River, civility, Cold notes, collaborative decisionmaking, collective intelligence, consensus, Consensus (Cold), Dena'ina, good government bad government, Harming none do as you will, integrity, Kim Stanley Robinson, Margaret Turnbull, Mars, Mars Trilogy, NaNoWriMo 2007, Pavonis Mons, Peter Kalifornsky, selfhood, sociocracy, storymind, terraforming, Turnbull (Cold), Ursula K. Leguin, Wikipedia, worldbuilding, writing | 3 Comments

Good for my worldbuilding, bad for my world

By Mel | Published: Saturday, 6 February 2010

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.

Posted in Cold, Long Dark, Polis | Also tagged Anchorage Baptist Temple, Anchorage Daily News, C.J. Cherryh, Chris, Citizens United v. FEC, Cold notes, collective intelligence, consensus, Consensus (Cold), corporations, corporations as persons, Cyteen, Dave, democracy, good government bad government, J.R.R. Tolkien, Juneau Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson, Long Dark notes, Lord of the Rings, Mars, Middle Earth, political corruption, sociocracy, terraforming, Tom Anderson, VECO, worldbuilding, writing | 2 Comments

Crossed Genres anthology released — complete w/ my story “Cold”

By Mel | Published: Monday, 1 February 2010

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.

Posted in Cold | Also tagged Crossed Genres, lgbtq, Melz published work, writing | 2 Comments

Shark (a story for Haiti)

By Mel | Published: Friday, 15 January 2010

"Shark" is an excerpt from the novel-in-progress Cold, posted online for free as part of Crossed Genres' Post a Story for Haiti project. Please donate to Haiti earthquake relief.

Posted in Cold, NaNoWriMo, Polis, Short fiction | Also tagged Crossed Genres, Doctors without Borders, earthquake, Haiti, Lambi Fund of Haiti, NaNoWriMo 2007, natural disaster, Rainbow World Fund, Red Cross, writing, Yéle Haiti | 6 Comments

Battlestar Rhapsody

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 12 January 2010

This brilliant parody of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" retells the tale of "Battlestar Galactica."

Posted in Journal | Also tagged Battlestar Galactica (TV), Caprica (TV), humor, video | Leave a comment

Crossed Genres announces its first short story anthology — and “Cold” will be in it!

By Mel | Published: Sunday, 1 November 2009

Crossed Genres will publish its first anthology containing one story from each of its first 12 issues -- including my story "Cold" from the LGBTQ issue.

Posted in Cold | Also tagged accepted for publication, Crossed Genres, lgbtq, writing | 2 Comments

“Cold” is published!

By Mel | Published: Saturday, 31 October 2009

My story "Cold" is now appearing in the November 2009 issue of Crossed Genres, which also has a lot of other great LGBTQ science fiction/fantasy. Give it a read!

Posted in Cold | Also tagged Crossed Genres, Melz published work, writing | 6 Comments

Taking life support for granted

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 14 October 2009

Pina Chomko: s a story character in my novel-in-progress Cold. She's not like us: she grew up in outer space. Her dream: to take for granted all the life support services that nature provides for free -- just like us.

Posted in Cold, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo | Also tagged biospherics, CELSS, Cold notes, Long Dark notes, NaNoWriMo 2009, Pina Chomko (Cold), research for writing, writing | Leave a comment

The Daily Tweets, 2009-10-13: Your spearhead is wilting

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 13 October 2009

Whiny “men’s rights” activists whining about the ‘feminization of SF” Your spearhead is wilting! http://bit.ly/4yddsU # @jansonjones Dollhouse getting lotsa addt’l viewing on DVR & Hulu. Rewatched all 3-so-far Season 2 eps on Hulu last night w/ my friend. in reply to jansonjones # @jansonjones As a BSG fan you gotta read that whiny “feminization of SF” [...]

Posted in The Daily Tweets | Also tagged Battlestar Galactica (TV), Dollhouse (TV), Sean Hannity, terraforming, TV | Leave a comment