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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: General Battuta on December 22, 2013, 02:07:01 pm
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sup posthavers
My FreeSpace tribute story 'Morrigan in the Sunglare' will appear in an upcoming issue of Clarkesworld, one of the finest science fiction/fantasy markets on Earth. I've already notified my idol ~JASON SCOTT~ and I hope he'll like it.
I've also had a bunch of other stories published across a number of markets, almost all of them (like Clarkesworld) free to view, so check out my website (http://sethdickinson.com) if you'd like to catch up. HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE
Never Dreaming, in Four Burns
If she doesn’t kill herself first, she’ll enter terminal dementia, withdraw from all outside stimulation, and die. Every time she wakes up from a dream she thinks: it hasn’t started yet. And: that could have been the last one.
She’s never going to see her engine fly.
Nur Zaleha binti Abdul Samad is right on the edge of inventing an engine that will give mankind the stars. But she has sporadic fatal insomnia: she’s going to lose the ability to dream, and then she’s going to die. There’s an impossible way out, but it has a price. In Clarkesworld.
Testimony Before an Emergency Session of the Naval Cephalopod Command
The squid is a solipsistic psychopathic God with a lust for submarine hull and a mandate from Ronald Reagan branded on its hunting tentacles.
A rogue Navy squid destroys a Soviet submarine and brings the world to the edge of nuclear war. One acid-washed cephalopod psychologist knows why. In Drabblecast.
A Tank Only Fears Four Things
When Tereshkova wakes up from the surgery, she is a tank. She knows it in her hull.
Love, trauma, uncertainty: all much easier to handle as a Soviet main battle tank. Forthcoming in Lightspeed.
Our Fire, Given Freely
Now that tribute sings in Bray’s veins, burns in the sweat upon her brow, alloys her bone and breath. Six years she has been sworn and still this power dizzies her.
Fire flows from the people to the monarch, so that she may rule unsleeping; from the monarch to the şövalye, so that they will fight unvanquished. These are the rules of civilization on the Black Atora. Until now. Forthcoming in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
A Plant (Whose Name is Destroyed)
Hayden opens the blinds and leaves them that way. “I don’t like theology much,” he says. “It makes me self-conscious.”
Naveen needs to learn whether his boyfriend is actually a Sumerian deity, and how much you can love someone before you stop being yourself. In Strange Horizons.
I also have a couple big bits of news hopefully coming up, one involving a novel-length take on The Traitor Baru Cormorant, the other a bit more secret and a bit less certain but pretty frightfully cool.
so how's everybody
(GOOBER FINISH THE NEW INSTALLER)
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BATTUTA, WE NEED MORE STORIES. FINISH THEM BATTUTA.
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I see no gargants.
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Excellent! looking forward to it.
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(GOOBER FINISH THE NEW INSTALLER)
NO U ugh I'm working on it
Howabout BATTUTA FINISH THE ST:R FANFIC
Anyway congratulations on all your scribetacular successes! Do you have a publication date for this upcoming issue?
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Q1 2014 for the FreeSpace one, May for the tank story, not sure about Fire.
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Congratulation...
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Gotta check the tank one, and the freespace one of course.
Kudos on all the amazing progress :yes:
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Baru novel?
(http://www.worldcarpclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/cormorant.jpg)
Feed me some literature!
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Baru novel?
*imgsnip*
Feed me some literature!
Yes please :yes: :yes2:
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In and subbed.
Good work Battuta! I'll be in the States for this! I have a feeling that you may not be a drinker, but I'll send a bottle of good Scotch your way for you to keep on the mantle or something. :D
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I would be much obliged, I've got way too much blood in my Scotchstream.
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Bip boop, sales to Shimmer, Apex, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Look for 'Economies of Force' (set in the same universe as 'The Immaculate Conception of Private Ritter'), 'Sekhmet Hunts the Dying Gnosis: A Computation', and 'Anna Saves Them All' in the months to come.
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Sweet, looking forward to it!
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Howabout BATTUTA FINISH THE ST:R FANFIC
GOOBER FINISH THE PHOENIX PROJECT
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:nervous:
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Tank is lady, lady is tank?
I want to be inside her... (oh God I'm firing) reload me etc.