Some free short stories from Soviet-era science fiction author Anat… https://boingboing.net/2018/02/22/some-free-short-stories-from-s.html
Black Mirror and The History of Science Fiction - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr9_DcO6G3A
Bad idea of the day: A book-length work of fiction that contains no nouns
Self-Contained Cities: … https://99percentinvisible.org/article/self-contained-cities-hyperdense-arcologies-urban-fiction-utopian-fantasy/
Opening Up Digital Fiction Writing Competition http://openingup.wonderboxpublishing.com/
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prasad_01_17/
The Interactive Fiction Competition https://ifcomp.org/
GitHub - eykd/plottoxml: Plotto—A new method of plot suggestion for writers of creative fiction by William Wallace Cook, 1867-1933 https://github.com/eykd/plottoxml
Boffin rediscovers 1960s attempt to write fiction with computers • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/29/ibm_1960s_story_writing_software/?mt=1504125155672
The Surprising Things Statistics Tell Us About Fiction | The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-surprising-things-statistics-tell-us-about-fiction
📚 Finished reading How Great Science Fiction Works by Gary K. Wolfe
More science fiction can help us create a better tomorrow. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/06/more_science_fiction_can_help_us_create_a_better_tomorrow.html
what follows are fan art & fiction, mashups, jokes, cultural references etc, derided in some contexts but an important part of the ecosystem
A fictional history of the kingdom, set in the future. A new passage-↵↵Ｔｈｉｓ ｉｓ ｔｈｅ ｂｅｇｉｎｎｉｎｇ． Ｉ ｒｕｌｅ ｙｏｕ ｎｏｗ． Ｔｈｅ ｆｏｌｌｏｗｉｎｇ ｉｓ ｍｙ ｃｏｍｍａｎｄ．
apparently I wrote this in 2011 (back when this wasn’t mostly about fiction) https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/93998482855182337
rocks of everyday life:↵noolith - book (usually nonfiction)↵oneirolith - book (usually fiction)↵sociolith - building↵cryptolith - hard drive
Fictional plants can germinate in minds, so books about them are special, more akin to seedbanks than books. Other books provide the soil.
from the catalog of obscure emotions: a fiction writer’s “oops. too real.”
A catalog of fictional and real monsters, indexed by the type of human part they eat.↵Blood - vampires, mosquitoes.↵Joy - dementors, ?↵etc
Specialization is for Insects
From Robert Heinlein’s science fiction book, _Time Enough for Love_:
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure … ⌘ Read more