Guess what I just joined?
I figure it’s a good way to discuss Science Fiction in general, mine in particular, and how to step up my game without rebuilding my universe in the process.
Amalgam is optimistic. Humans made it off the planet. Humans managed to reach a point where their differences are interesting. In brief - black and white teamed up against green ;)
…it’s just that I have a horrible dystopia as the feature in my first Amalgam novel…
Whoops.
“You’ve lost the right to see me cry.”
“What?” said the cogniscent on his personal comms, sitting opposite Rael. “What does that even mean, Barbera?”
“It means you’ve hurt me for the last time,” said a higher-pitched voice. Either the cogniscent in question had her on speaker, or his volume was irresponsibly loud. Either way, the entire carriage of the Tram could hear them both. “I’m leaving, and
Read more »“Shock and awe can be dangerous and deadly, therefore the management has overturned your booking of the concert hall for a- what was it again?”
“A magic show.”
“Look,” sighed The Great Amaze-o. “We’re a comedy act. We show how everything is done and half the time we pretend to flakk it up. It’s funny.”
The Nephroton on the other side of the counter glared at them with her segmented
Read more »Guess what Erika Syverson just sent me?
I’m dribbling.
Augh, it’s so gorgeous I wanna hug it.
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Doe, a deer, a female deer
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Doe, a deer, a female deer…
Doe crept between the parked storage containers, heart pounding. She could still see the peak of the ship. She was headed the right way.
Ray, a drop of golden sun…
Shadows made her jump for all of five seconds before she realised it was her own shadow. A skinny stick of a thing. Undersized, underfed, under-represented and, so far, under notice.
She
Read more »Human: *sneezes*
Other cogniscient: What the hell was that?!
Ax'and'l had been dubious from the get-go about joining forces with a human… but he’d run the numbers and this venture was profitable in the extreme.
Insanely profitable.
Now it was just looking insane.
They were standing in an abandoned hulk of a spaceship, looting it for anything they could get out of it. Both had their survival suits on. Ideally, they were protected from everything the ship could throw
Read more »Read more »(character) crept through the undergrowth, barely daring to breathe, as they followed the pulsing rhythm. Parting the bushes slightly, they sucked in a horrified gasp, seeing the flickering firelight and the Humans dancing around it.
There, in the light of the burning branches, were people skipping and hopping, drinking out of cups from large nuts and doubtlessly containing fermented grain juice. That, they could handle. But the dance, that caused all non-Humans to shake in fear … .
The dreaded funky chicken!
(there have
Aliens discover The Hitchhiker’s Guide.
(#00581 - A216)
Space, the text said, is big. Really big. If you think it’s a long way down the road to the shops, that’s peanuts compared to space.
“People paid money for this?”
“I think it’s some of their Terran humour…”
“I don’t see any references to trousers falling down in this narrative.”
Bloz glared at Kenka. “You and
Read more »There’s gotta be a few font pros out there who know their stuff and, even though I love me some horribad science fiction, I don’t often get to see the movie posters.
So what fonts would y'all recommend for the eventual cover of The Amity Incident?
Read more »Humans meet a species from a different deathworld.
(#00580 - A215)
Things around the negotiation table were tense. It wasn’t often that the humans met another cogniscent race that could kill them with ease. The fact that both sides were willing to keep their hostile actions in check was a telling victory for the mamalian side of the negotiations.
For a long time, Trodonti and Human stared at each other.
“We have studied your home planet,” said K'ress.
Read more »Shayde and Ambassador O’Ranges
or
Julie, Nanny and Ambassador O’Ranges
[AN: You didn’t say ‘xor’ :D ]
Julie was still moaning. A constant monotone that, Shayde could tell, was starting to get on everyone’s pec’s. She was huddled in Nanny’s lap. Nanny couldn’t do much for her but be a living teddy-bear and mutter “Good girl, good girl,” at random intervals.
“Puir babby…” Shayde
Read more »The cover… evolves
I’m going to have a hard time NOT using bleeding font for the title because it all looks SO cheesy-horror-flick… which is exactly what I’m aiming for :D
I was having a really bad day until this turned up in my in-box. Now I’m stoked :)
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As one of the tech review magazines said a few years ago when the first 32 GB micro SD cards came out, “At last it is possible for a single human being to accidentally swallow all of the data collected by the Apollo Program.”
“This is it?” Shayde held aloft a crystal with a metal disk on one end. “All'o the survivin’ media from the twentieth century?”
“And some derivative works, yes,” said Rael. “
Read more »So most of Earth is category 4, Australia is category 5, the UK must be something like category 2. There is literally nothing deadly here and the worst we have is stinging nettles and sometimes horseflies.
What would actually constitute a category 1 or less, or a non-deathworld? All I can think of would be an entire world of primary producers but there are established predators in Amalgamverse…
Deathworld categories are judged entirely on the surface inhabited by the dominant cogniscent life
Read more »Code 19: There is a small child loose in the area.
“LOCKDOWN! LOCKDOWN!” Rodriguez checked all the small storage bays before she locked them. Kept her eyes and ears open for any trace.
No sticky residue. No smeared prints. No suspicious puddles of liquid. No sign that the progeny had been here. And that was the dangerous part.
“I thought human infants were helpless,” said Chor'i'za.
“Human infants, yes. But once they learn how to move, they
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