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]
Labels: Horth, Patricia Crawford, Ranar, Vretla
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 It had got out of date and collected a "looks like an ad" warning. :-( |
Labels: Lynda Williams, Wikipedia
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.)
Labels: Book Launch, Prince George Free Press, Righteous Anger, Teresa Mallam
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.
Labels: Bud Foote Science Fiction Collection, Library, Soul Touch
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.
Labels: demiverse, Sandra Kasturi, Sonnetaweek
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!
Labels: Federation of BC Writers, Lynda Williams, Righteous Anger
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.
Labels: Di Mon, Horth, Pretenders, Review, Righteous Anger, T.M. Martin, Yet Another Book Review
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 Over 100 hours of panels, presentations and workshops on various Saturday is an Educator's Conference on Using Science Fiction and 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 |
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."
Labels: Demish, Lisa, Sports, Vrellish
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 HereIf Garth diss BCSFA, and Garth diss VCon, maybe you ask what Garth |
Labels: BCSFA, community, fandom, Garth Spencer