Posted on 01/02/2014 10:37:30 AM PST by EveningStar
Happy National Science Fiction Day! January 2nd is the day selected for this wonderful holiday because it was Isaac Asimov's birthday. It's a day to celebrate, appreciate, and even read some of the many science fiction offerings at your local library, bookstore, website, or your own bookshelf.
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Ya don’t choose yer muse... ;-)
Baen seems to be one of the few publishers that is trying to intelligently ride the cyber wave rather than fight it.
They make a lot of books available for free, especially the first one in a series, especially older ones. This is based on the eminently logical premise that they aren’t going to sell many of a 20 year old series anyway, but if somebody likes the first free one, there’s a good chance he’ll buy he rest in the series.
Or in my shameless case, get them at the local free library.
Baen’s website has been pretty disorganized for a while. If I remember correctly, their free library used to be a good deal more extensive. May have had some policy shifts.
Hard to navigate there, can you give me a link to one of yours?
Here's one I'm working on: Sari and Transformers Prime
If you click on the "FictionFan1024" hyperlink you'll be taken to my profile.
I remember the original series and the first animated movie (Spoiler: Optimus dies) but I am not familiar with some of the characters you are using.
Still, it sounds like an interesting beginning.
Our dear author, Harlan Ellison, had a few ‘walk-ons’, in the show Babylon 5.
the original will always be canon to me.
When was a kid I had the two “Who’s Who in Transformers”, I should have preserved those, probably worth at least a hundred now.
Kartographer wrote:
“Science Fiction? You mean like Global Warming?”
No, dear Boy! Global Warmning, is a new utilization of the old America Online one-hand-typing exercise!
Never, ever, EVER, even breath ‘global warming’, and ‘science fiction’, in the same breath, or the gods Heinlein, Howard and Lovecraft shall inhabit your dreams!!!
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I hear ya. In some of my stories, I bring some of the original Transformers characters in - sort of as an “homage”. I even do a few from the Japanese series, which never made it to America. That’s the beauty of Fan Fiction - you’re free to do whatever your imagination desires, although I try hard to keep to some kind of canon; my reviewers usually keep me from straying too far. :-)
We read “The Martian Chronicles” in Jr High. After that I read every Bradbury book I could get my hands, even “R is for Rocket” and “S is for Space”. My favorites were “Something Wicked This Way Comes” and Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury led me to Clarke who led me to Asimov and Heinlein. I think the one book I really loved was “Ringworld” by Larry Niven. I miss those books... Time to reread them.
EE Doc Smith?
Very good and makes me wonder if this is why liberals are against energy development, etc. We can live wherever we want and well outside urban areas controlled by Democrats.
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