Thanksgiving Weekend Roundup
It's Thanksgiving weekend up here in Canada. For those Americans wondering why we do it in October - I'm not too sure, but I imagine that if we waited another month to celebrate the harvest season, we'd be dealing with snow and frost, which doesn't quite seem to be in keeping with the celebration. Anyhow, this means that, like all good university students, I'll be off to traverse the province in order to exploit family for large meals. The downside, of course, is that I probably won't have a chance to blog again until I return on Monday. In the meantime, I figure I ought to post about RotW and the Writing Challenge before I leave.
SF Read of the Week
I didn't have much time to read this week (it was something of a hectic week for deadlines for the anthology submissions), and an idea dawned on me. Since, in preparation for NaNoWriMo, I'm planning to spend the rest of October getting a little bit ahead on my schoolwork, I'll be sacrificing the time I usually devote to reading stories on the web. However, for the rest of the month, I'll be presenting you with the 2005 Hugo nominees for best short story.
Rathburn–perhaps he couldn’t use his name in speech, but no one could keep him from thinking it–opened his mouth to protest. He had money–lots of money. But, no, no, he’d signed all that away. His biometrics were meaningless; his retinal scans were no longer registered. Even if he could get out of this velvet prison and access one, no ATM in the world would dispense cash to him. Oh, there were plenty of stocks and bonds in his name . . . but it wasn’t his name anymore.
Today, I present "Shed Skin" by Robert J. Sawyer, who is without a doubt the most decorated Canadian SF writer in the history of the genre (I mean, the guy is winner or runner-up for the Aurora award pretty much every year). This story was published in Analog in January 2004 and is now available online for your reading pleasure.
Writing Challenge
Seeing as how I've got a quasi-Canadian theme going on here, let me continue. An alien spacecraft lands in Canada (whether it be a city, the wilderness, or wherever is up to you). A little green man emerges and says, "Take me to your leader".
Extra cool points for humour. Even more extra cool points if I decide you "get" Canada. And even more cool points if you spell a word like humour with a u.
Have a good weekend everyone. See you Monday.
SF Read of the Week
I didn't have much time to read this week (it was something of a hectic week for deadlines for the anthology submissions), and an idea dawned on me. Since, in preparation for NaNoWriMo, I'm planning to spend the rest of October getting a little bit ahead on my schoolwork, I'll be sacrificing the time I usually devote to reading stories on the web. However, for the rest of the month, I'll be presenting you with the 2005 Hugo nominees for best short story.
Rathburn–perhaps he couldn’t use his name in speech, but no one could keep him from thinking it–opened his mouth to protest. He had money–lots of money. But, no, no, he’d signed all that away. His biometrics were meaningless; his retinal scans were no longer registered. Even if he could get out of this velvet prison and access one, no ATM in the world would dispense cash to him. Oh, there were plenty of stocks and bonds in his name . . . but it wasn’t his name anymore.
Today, I present "Shed Skin" by Robert J. Sawyer, who is without a doubt the most decorated Canadian SF writer in the history of the genre (I mean, the guy is winner or runner-up for the Aurora award pretty much every year). This story was published in Analog in January 2004 and is now available online for your reading pleasure.
Writing Challenge
Seeing as how I've got a quasi-Canadian theme going on here, let me continue. An alien spacecraft lands in Canada (whether it be a city, the wilderness, or wherever is up to you). A little green man emerges and says, "Take me to your leader".
Extra cool points for humour. Even more extra cool points if I decide you "get" Canada. And even more cool points if you spell a word like humour with a u.
Have a good weekend everyone. See you Monday.
4 Comments:
We get to have Mistaken Explorers Day on Monday, which means a day off for me. So I guess we'll all be celebrating something.
An alien spacecraft lands in Quebec. A little green man emerges and says, "Take me to your leader". A passerby looks pityingly at the alien, shakes her head and walks on, muttering in French. The alien tries to leave, But can't.
Happy thanksgiving ,have a great day tomorrow,at least you Canucks decided on a day to hold it .Only took ya 85 years :-)
Happy Thanksgiving - celebrate Canadian-style!
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