Future Sports
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Hi everybody! Sorry for the lack of articles in the last few weeks but I have some studying to do for university, I guess you can understand why I can’t post every day anymore. Thanks, for the understanding.
Ok, let’s start with the article. UEFA Euro 2008 is well on it’s way, it started just a week ago and my country is doing very well. It’s Croatia, by the way. You know, the one they call “giant slayer”. It’s good to be Croat these days and we are all hyped with the championship and all so I thought it would be good to use that in my next article. What’s that have to do with science fiction, you ask? Well, it does. Today, I wanna talk about sports - in the future. That’s right.
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6 Writing Tips for Starting Your Writing Journey
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Tips for your writing journey by DIYA SOOD
So, you’d like to be a writer? Congrats! Writing not only is a great way to express you, but can provide an income. Keep in mind not all writers make a fortune, some still can’t quit their day job. Below are some tips to start your writing journey.
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The Lure Of Urban Fantasy
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Urban Fantasy is a loosely defined term to describe fantasy novels that take place in modern, often urban settings rather than imaginary realms. Some of the more popular authors of this genre are Charles de Lint, Neil Gaiman and Emma Bull. It is, however, a quickly growing field, so there are many newer and lesser known books and authors out there.
In some ways, Urban Fantasy overlaps with horror and tales of the supernatural, which are also usually set in modern times. Fantasy, however, while it can be dark, usually focuses on creatures and circumstances that are very different from the everyday, but does not indulge in fright, gore or mayhem for its own sake.
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Hasta La Vista Terminator!
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Do you remember the scene in Terminator when Arnold strols down the street, but naked, and kills some guy with a thrusting blow to the stomack? Or when he cuts his arm open and pulls his eye out for repairs? How about in the sequel, when he cuts his arm right off to show Miles Dyson that he is a machine? All cool scenes that made legendary status.
Well, it seams that we can forget about all of that now. Terminator is rated PG13.
“What?” - sayz you.
“Yup.” - sayz I.
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Inventors of Words - Neologisms in Science Fiction
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Surely the most famous new word coined in science fiction is “robot”, in the 1920 play by the Czech writer Karel Capek‘: R. U. R. (”Rossum’s Universal Robots”). I don’t know any Czech but I dare say “robot” comes from a root similar to the Russian rabotat, to work. Here, therefore, rather than a word that is completely invented from nothing. we have a new form of an existing word, expressing a new idea.
“Robot” is therefore some way along the spectrum that extends from those neologisms which are merely convenient abbreviations (such as “mascon” for “concentratin of mass”), to really new words and ideas. (Of course a writer can also invent a new word to express an old idea, though this is usually rather pointless. I think Larry Niven in The Ringworld Engineers invented a new word for sex, though I can’t recall what the word was and I can’t be bothered to look it up.)
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What The Hell Made Me Into A Science Fiction Fan?
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I was just thinking to myself why, in the name of all sacred, did I become a fan of science fiction? Really, what makes us different from all those fantasy, horror, thriller-loving people? You know, popular ones! 
When did it all begin?
That was me thinking aloud. But it got me thinking. It turns out there was just a couple of things in my past that directed me on my sci-fi path. First contact with it was bacouse of my uncle. He had a VCR at home (my parents didn’t want to buy one in fear I would be in fron of TV constantly) and some tapes of Star Wars movies. Ta-dam! My first science fiction experience. Who would’ve thought, right? ;). Later, he brought Star Trek movies on our family gathering so we could watch them together. They all loved Star Trek so that feeling crossed onto me. I was hooked. Two gratest sci-fi franchizes ever got their hands on me and didn’t plan to let go.
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Fantasy Writing - Six Cliches to Avoid
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Article by: William Meikle
Fantasy fiction is doing good business at the moment, but there are certain situations that have been overplayed. So much so, that they have become genre clichés, and everybody knows what to expect next. If
you’re a writer in the fantasy genre, here are 6 clichés you should try to avoid in your stories.
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Time Travel- A Possibility or Just the Stuff of Science Fiction?
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article by Michael Watson
It’s been written about in hundreds of books, the subject of fantasy for everyone at one time or another, and the government has actually devoted research at one time or another on the subject. If you do a search on the Internet for time travel you will find millions of entries on it, and hundreds of websites fully devoted to talking about it. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could travel back in time? You could correct mistakes you’ve made in your life, study any period of time that interests you, not to mention build a financial empire on your foreknowledge of events. Beginning with H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, the concept of time travel has been one of the main staples of science fiction. Some of my favorite reads are David Gerrold’s The Man Who Folded Himself and The Light of Other Days by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke.
So is it really possible to travel in time?
First of all we are all already time travelers in the sense that time moves forward, and at the same apparent rate of speed, for all of us. There seem to be no obstacles in physics to accelerating the forward momentum of time in one way or another. Cryogenics is a concept much written about as one method of “forward” time travel; lowering the body temperature to a little above absolute zero to nearly stop the metabolism as a way to sleep away millennia. The practical hurdles to this put any possibility of this far into the future. Although simpler organisms have been successfully frozen and returned, the human body is too complex to yet survive the process because of water crystallization and other factors. Another method of accelerating time is time differentials due to the relativistic effects of high velocity.
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Free short sci-fi stories
Anders Brink is offering his short stories for free reading on his website. I didn’t read them all but the ones I did made me give you the link :). Click here.
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Creating Fantasy worlds - Fiona McIntosh
Eos Books - (Fiona McIntosh is the author of The Quickening trilogy and, most recently, The Percheron Saga. Odalisque, the first book in The Percheron Saga, was released in mass market last week, and Goddess, the epic conclusion, will be available in trade paperback in May. Stay tuned to find out how to win copies of the entire trilogy! — Kate)
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