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Spent the weekend...
Sep. 1st, 2014 08:53 pmCamping with a bunch of people from church. It was lovely.
And it's amazing what you can get accomplished with no internet around. I brainstormed the I Am the Abyss story some more, and I think I finally have an outline I can live with. I also banged out a few hundred more words in it, and if I go at a NaNo pace for the rest of the week, I should have a serviceable first draft. Yay.
In other news, Larry Correia fisked the Guardian again, and then the author of the column he rightfully roasted doubled down on his utterly stupid "science fiction is not a genre" statement by attempting to argue on Larry's FB page, in all seriousness, that a series with spaceships, aliens, robots, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, and energy weapons is not science fiction.
Now. Say what you like about Star Wars's wacky religion and some of its sillier elements, but it is most certainly science fiction. Is it "hard" SF? Well, no. It falls under the umbrella of "space opera," which is a sub-genre of SF--and is most certainly SF. I've written both hard SF and space opera, and I'm comfortable sending both to Analog and Asimov's and other "science fiction" magazines, because SF is a broad umbrella.
Man, I hope the Guardian isn't paying this dude for the tripe he's spewing.
And it's amazing what you can get accomplished with no internet around. I brainstormed the I Am the Abyss story some more, and I think I finally have an outline I can live with. I also banged out a few hundred more words in it, and if I go at a NaNo pace for the rest of the week, I should have a serviceable first draft. Yay.
In other news, Larry Correia fisked the Guardian again, and then the author of the column he rightfully roasted doubled down on his utterly stupid "science fiction is not a genre" statement by attempting to argue on Larry's FB page, in all seriousness, that a series with spaceships, aliens, robots, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, and energy weapons is not science fiction.
Now. Say what you like about Star Wars's wacky religion and some of its sillier elements, but it is most certainly science fiction. Is it "hard" SF? Well, no. It falls under the umbrella of "space opera," which is a sub-genre of SF--and is most certainly SF. I've written both hard SF and space opera, and I'm comfortable sending both to Analog and Asimov's and other "science fiction" magazines, because SF is a broad umbrella.
Man, I hope the Guardian isn't paying this dude for the tripe he's spewing.
