SF writing contest!
Hello. I have not updated in forever. Oops. Me be lazy. :)
There is an international SF writing contest going on. I am entering with a story I wrote on Wednesday. It's about a girl who is going to live on Mars. I wrote in one day and my dad thinks it's really good. I need to shorten it, though. It can't be over 1000 words and right now it's about 1100.
posted by Tick-Tick @ 12:29 PM
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6 Comments:
OOOH, i wanna enter! what makes a story science fiction? or what distinguishes science fiction from fantasy or realistic fiction with a science fiction twist or what?
Don't you kinda know it when you see it? (Actually, some people's definition of science fiction is, what I'm pointing at when I say "science fiction." And by people, I mean pros in the field.)
I was recently checking the submission guidelines for Analog magazine and I like their 'definition' of science fiction:
"Basically, we publish science fiction stories. That is, stories in which some aspect of future science or technology is so integral to the plot that, if that aspect were removed, the story would collapse. Try to picture Mary Shelley's Frankenstein without the science and you'll see what I mean. No story!" From http://www.analogsf.com/information/submissions.shtml
There are mystery and thriller novels set in the future where you can take the setting away and it could be written as a standard mystery or thriller (and probably sell more copies) so I like the above which reminds us that the science must be a necessary part of the story, not just a backdrop.
Hi Harry -- Didn't expect to see you over here! :)
Hi Jeff. You mentioned in one of your comments that another commenter's daughter replied in your daughter's blog. I saw her comment in your religion thread so I thought I'd check in here. Otherwise I wouldn't have known where to look.
Ah! That's why they call it a web, I guess!
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