Dogs have been care animals since they were domesticated. Gengineering a dog can lead to interesting new wrinkles when old instincts come into conflict with new programming.
The mail must get through! But when the mail includes 8500 cryo-suspended people, and your equipment is low-bid crap, that courier job gets very interesting. Can one man and his cat save their lives?
Entries into the writing contest need some splash art.
1200 by 420 pixels.
For each story.
I’m planning on putting in ALL my short stories (except RTFM, that’s in the slush pile at Andromeda Space Flight Magazine) and excerpts from my novels,
That’s a lot of art.
And I have the compositional skills of a dead whelk.
And I’m stony broke. I can’t afford to pay anyone. All I can offer is
There’s nothing in the rules to say that I can’t put in some of my other stuff. Any one of my Instants… one of my other short stories… parts of my books…
[fanfic wins nothing, ergo fanfic is right out :P]
Should I do it though? And which stories should I use?
What makes royalty? Is it the bloodlines? The history? The noblesse oblige? For Victor, all it took was one, very special cat.
And a small pair of boots.
I thought I didn't have time for anything more elaborate, so I dredged up one of my old Once Upon A Time And Space tales. Not so much of the sci-fi in this one. But enough of a subtle twist on the old tale to make it
“Echo of another world.” In honor of the stupendous Terry Pratchett and his classic Discworld novels, this contest is asking writers to take us to different worlds with their stories. Pratchett inspired billions of genre writers to expand their minds and their imaginations. Hopefully this contest will reveal some of the works born out of his inspiration.
Fiction in the sci-fi/fantasy genre, up to 15,000 words. Novel excerpts are encouraged; but fanfiction is not eligible to win unfortunately.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld might look intimidating -- there are 40 books, and they're humorous fantasy, which seems like it could be an acquired taste. But everybody should read at least one Discworld book, because they're wonderful, and there's something for everyone. Here's our complete guide to Pratchett's masterwork.
The kid of the punch-clock hero and villain couple has an interesting life.
Her parents named her Everest. Possibly out of a desire to fit in
with the ridiculous names of their gated, elitist community. She shared a
school with three Porsche’s, two Kilimanjaro’s, and at least five kids
with way too many silent Q’s in their name.
She was waiting for
the very day that she was old enough to change her name to something
blandly ordinary. Like
A clearer photo would be nice. I can't tell if that's a resizing disaster, those grody scarifications [God please NO! Never again! FFS that variant was nothing like the 'Crawler we know and love] or actual proper velvet FUR
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