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

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

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

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Whatever in hell I’ve been doing…

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.

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Integrity, violation, healing

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

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

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?

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Storyminded

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.

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Writing life

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.

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Building Consensus

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.

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Good for my worldbuilding, bad for my world

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.

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

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.

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