Sunday, February 25, 2007
The ORU and the art of computer maintenance
 

Classic bit of "reality skimming" stuff from Patsy Crawford, one of the authors for the 2nd anthology (still at the printers but showing signs of life there!).




> It is a huge relief to have authors like you to lean on in the blustery
> world of reality---my computer just bit the dust the other day taking four
> papers and my usb device.
> I kept thinking what would Ranar do? What would Horth do? What would Vretla
> do? So I proceeded to reason with it, take it apart and put it back together
> (silently) and beat the crap out of it in that order.
> Patsy [from e-mail to insider's "first expansion" list, Feb 07]

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Friday, February 23, 2007
 
Lynda Williams entry Wikipedia
Big "Thank You" to Janice Shoults of Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing for tidying up the entry for me in the Wikipedia. It had got out of date and collected a "looks like an ad" warning. :-(

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Interview with Lynda Williams on book launch for Righteous Anger by Teresa Mallam in Prince George Free Press Feb 2007

Lovely article on the Okal Rel Universe in the P.G. Free Press last Friday. Just discovered the online version here. (And ack, should have got the hair cut before the picture. Oh well.)

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
 

A big ORU thank you to Dr. Lisa Yaszek of the School of Literature, Communication and Culture for placing books from a "soul touch" package in the Bud Foote SF Collection at the Georgia Institute of Technology and making Kaleidoscope Illustrated online graphic novel flyers available to students.



Bud Foote SF Collection accepts ORU books

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Sandra Kasturi's sonnetaweek project was how I met her, and why I asked her to be editor of the Demiverse project for the ORU when the urge to make an ORU connection struck. I always loved the old, rhymning poety, and the full-figured emotions of Shakespearean drama. Sandra missed more than a few weeks in her sonnetaweek group on yahoo, but she hasn't stopped!


Here's her latest, entitled: Refuting Complaints, with Melodrama.

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Monday, February 19, 2007
 

Lynda Williams featured as Federation of BC Writers Spotlight author Feb 2007
Particularly pleased to be the Federation of BC Writers' featured author with my Prince George book launch coming up for Righteous Anger, and by the rather impressive list of collaborators on ORU projects I was able to cite for the feature. Special thanks to those whose names appear!

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Sunday, February 18, 2007
 
Righteous Anger review on Yet Another Book Review Follow the link to a positive reception for Righteous Anger from T.M. Martin of the Yet Another Book Review site. Best of all, he concludes with "Bring on the third volume" which is both exciting and daunting as I struggle with same. Horth was a dream to work with as an author - he's so direct! Di Mon plays a larger role in the third volume, Pretenders, and is anything but straight forward, damn him. Not to mention the multiple story line challenge. But at least I have the theme which is how power (fear of it, desire for it, or the mere fact it exists in the form it does) forces people to "pretend" to be something they aren't; the impact on identity which results; and how people either break or cope.

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Friday, February 16, 2007
 
Righteous Anger appears in UNBC Newsletter

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
 

Big ORU "thank you" to LTUE organizer Charlene Harmon and English teacher Elizabeth Woods for their respective roles in letting the ORU soul-touch LTUE just a little bit this coming weekend. Charlene accepted a package and agreed introduce the ORU to fellow teachers interested in Sci Fi and creative engagement. Among other things, she has copies of flyers promoting Brianna's quest for illustrations for the "Flight Cycle" online novella. Elizabeth Woods donated her script for dramatizing a passage of Courtesan Prince for reader's theatre, which I have passed along to Charlene for the use or inspiration of other teachers with creative writing classes. (See Elizabeth in action at a reader's theatre event in 2002 based on the ORU novella Mekan'stan. Sadly, no pictures for the later one.)


What's LTUE? Notice about it from RFF list is reproduced below to answer that question.






Subject: [RFFNorthwest] Life is this week

Just a reminder that "Life, the Universe & Everything 25: The Marion
K. "Doc" Smith Symposium on Science Fiction and Fantasy" (LTUE) is
February 15-17.

Over 100 hours of panels, presentations and workshops on various
aspects of science fiction and fantasy.

Saturday is an Educator's Conference on Using Science Fiction and
Fantasy in the K-12 Classroom.  This is for teachers, educators,
librarians, media specialists, parents and anyone interested.

Information and a complete schedule is at ltue.byu.edu

LTUE is free.

Charlene Harmon

From RFF (Readers for the Future) list Feb 13 Digest




Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Sports in the Okal Rel Universe
 
Lisa Fencing, of course, is the main recreational sport among Sevolites as well as being integral to Sword Law, but it stands to reason there would be other kinds. I asked ORU reader and e-mail buddy Lisa what she thought about that, since she is way-y-y more sports savvy than I am, and got this response:

"I like the idea of the sports in ORU. I think the Demish might play
something a little less violent [than soccer]. A variation might be good, with stricter rules. The Vrellish would probably prefer something like rugby or football.
I think rugby'd fit better, as it has no padding."

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Monday, February 05, 2007
 

With Garth's permission, from his latest edition of BCSFAzine. Reproduced here because it made me laugh and sympathize. There seem to be forces of [pick-your-favorite-evil] in the world that are destroying habitat for the "literate, intelligent gang" in many quarters. Could it have something to do with the decline and fall of western civilization? The rise of bread and circuses? Cultural adoration of the dumb, mean and pretty? Or mere obsolescence of the breed. Kudos to Garth for a morale-raising whine.



Why Garth Here


If Garth diss BCSFA, and Garth diss VCon, maybe you ask what Garth
expect? What fans say fandom be?

Way back when, like before 1980s, many fans think fandom be
community. You savvy community? Whole buncha people have something
in common. Even in 1980s, Garth not only fan who think fandom be
community. Yes, this look stupid now. Garth not only smart fan think stupid
thing.

What community do? People blong community do lots of things
together. What fandom do? People blong fandom do lots of things, not do
things together. Not always. Not all fans.

Way back when, fans say fandom be literate gang, intelligent gang,
original and creative gang. This why Garth came here. This not what Garth
find. Where those fans go?

Fans out of town do some good stuff together. Ottawa fans still do
APAs. You savvy APAs? Garth explain APAs sometime. Ottawa and
Montreal fans do theme meetings, have guest speakers, do movie previews.
What we do?

Fans in town do some good stuff sometime. Maybeso fans not tell
Garth. Why for fans not tell Garth what happening? Maybeso Garth talk
wrong, dress wrong, smell bad? What? Maybeso fans here be cliquey. Still
could * talk * to Garth. Least they could do. Garth too old for high school
crap.

Maybeso you wonder why Garth write like Tarzan? Because when Garth
talk to you all like normal person, very few listen.

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