Rochester Pride parade: A celebration with a new theme Rochester, N.Y. (WROC) – For a few hours Saturday, Rochester was awash in color and “sci-fi” characters as the pride parade made its way through the Park Avenue community. Hundreds marched in the annual gay pride parade. This year’s theme was, “Sci-Fi Pride: May the Pride Be With You!” See the full article here
Welcome to ME ME MONDAY at our FB discussion group – your chance to pop in and tell us about your latest success. Have a new book or short story coming out? Let us know. Just sell something? Let us know so we can cheer you on. HOW IT WORKS: I’ll pin this topic to the top of our FB discussion page for the day. –Please post your announcement as a separate post, so I can also share it over to our FB page (as opposed to this discussion group). –If you want, send me your book announcement info at … Read more
Hey all, So we landed safely at RainbowCon. In a couple hours, everything will kick off, so today we’re starting an open thread for the conference – everyone who’s here, feel free to post photos, thoughts, info, etc. :) We’ll leave this up and running throughout the con as our pinned post. Tomorrow, we’ll kick off a regular discussion topic too, for folks who couldn’t make it here this weekend. :) –Scott
To boldly go indeed! NASA’s three-billion-mile journey to Pluto reaches historic encounter After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface — roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India — making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth. See the full article
History holds some of best quirks, don’t you think? How rich is a world that has a fundraising event like this one: When ‘Womanless Weddings’ Were Trendy Definitions of marriage in America keep expanding, but for most of the country’s history, the word “wedding” has called to mind images of a woman in a white dress and a man in a black tuxedo. And traditionally, June was the most popular month to get hitched. So, there’s no better time to reminisce about a once-popular community ritual — still perhaps practiced occasionally — that would seem to be on the edge … Read more
Welcome to ME ME MONDAY at our FB discussion group – your chance to pop in and tell us about your latest success. Have a new book or short story coming out? Let us know. Just sell something? Let us know so we can cheer you on. HOW IT WORKS: I’ll pin this topic to the top of our FB discussion page for the day. –Please post your announcement as a separate post, so I can also share it over to our FB page (as opposed to this discussion group). –If you want, send me your book announcement info at … Read more
The first time someone mentioned Flash Fiction to me, I did the puzzled cocker spaniel head tilt. You want me to write what? How could anyone write a story in three hundred words or less? It’s truly a unique challenge, but I think it’s a good exercise for any writer. We forget, as novelists, how much can be conveyed with a spare, few words, and flash fiction forces us to do so. One of the mistakes authors make when writing flash, though, is trying to do too much. You end up with a scene instead of a story. Focus, focus, … Read more
Every now and then here at QSF, we like to dust off our time machines, pull out our crystal balls, and make a bit of loose leaf tea to see if we can divine future trends. After all, that’s what being a sci fi writer is all about, right? So to follow up on yesterday’s post about spec fic music for Rainbow Con, I’d like to ask you to forecast where music might go in the next 20, 50, or 100 years. Will past trends be recycled? Will something entirely new arise? Will we even recognize what our descendants will … Read more
Last year, Lightspeed Magazine had a special issue in which “Women Destroy Science Fiction” (and horror, and fantasy.) Now, Lightspeed is following up with “Queers Destroy Science Fiction.” And today’s the last day to support the Kickstarter. But why should you care about getting more LGBT SF? The editors of the issue explain. See the full article here
Knowing the history of your genre gives you insight into how it’s viewed in the larger world. Why do publishers eschew works that push the boundaries? Which archetypes touch something in readers? Do you know your history well enough to shape the future of Science Fiction? Click here for a primer on LGBT themes in speculative fiction