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Free read: "Not a Problem"
A few years back, Gordon Van Gelder was putting together an anthology of bespoke stories about global warming. He called it Welcome to the Greenhouse, a title reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut's famous short story, "Welcome to the Monkey House."
He asked me for a story. I realized, and still do, that global warming is a big problem. I've been anticipating it since the 1960s when J.G. Ballard published The Drowned World. So I tried to come up with something grim and gritty, but nothing good came to mind. The only idea I'd had was something a little goofy that did sort address the issue that the kind of thinking that gets you into a problem is probably not the kind that will get you out.
Then Gordon emailed me to ask how I was doing and I told him I was only coming up with goofy stuff, at which point I understood from his reply that comic relief was what he was expecting me to deliver. So I wrote the story and sent it in.
It's called "Not a Problem," and it's now available for a free read on the SF Canada site. When you've finished reading it, you might stick around the site and get to know some of Canada's up and coming new sff authors.
He asked me for a story. I realized, and still do, that global warming is a big problem. I've been anticipating it since the 1960s when J.G. Ballard published The Drowned World. So I tried to come up with something grim and gritty, but nothing good came to mind. The only idea I'd had was something a little goofy that did sort address the issue that the kind of thinking that gets you into a problem is probably not the kind that will get you out.
Then Gordon emailed me to ask how I was doing and I told him I was only coming up with goofy stuff, at which point I understood from his reply that comic relief was what he was expecting me to deliver. So I wrote the story and sent it in.
It's called "Not a Problem," and it's now available for a free read on the SF Canada site. When you've finished reading it, you might stick around the site and get to know some of Canada's up and coming new sff authors.
Ecotones -- an SFF World anthoogy
A few years ago, I had a story called "Not a Problem" in an anthology of sf stories about global warming -- Welcome to the Greenhouse -- edited by Gordon Van Gelder. It was, frankly, a piece of comic relief in an otherwise pretty serious collection of shape-of-things-to-come science fiction.
Now I've resold the same story in another otherwise serious sf anthology, Ecotones, which is a project organized by the mainstays of the SFF World site, where I like to visit and give writing advice and so on. If you're not familiar with the world, an ecotone is a transitional zone where two different ecological biomes touch each other, such as where savanna meets rainforest.
It's the fourth antho SFF World has put out, and each table of contents has mixed contributions from established pros (bigger names than mine) with newcomers, some of them making their first sales.
The star names above the title in Ecotones are Lauren Beukes, Ken Liu, and Tobias S. Buckell.
This is a crowdfunded project, through Kickstarter, and the rewards for kicking in are pretty good. Here's where to go.
Now I've resold the same story in another otherwise serious sf anthology, Ecotones, which is a project organized by the mainstays of the SFF World site, where I like to visit and give writing advice and so on. If you're not familiar with the world, an ecotone is a transitional zone where two different ecological biomes touch each other, such as where savanna meets rainforest.
It's the fourth antho SFF World has put out, and each table of contents has mixed contributions from established pros (bigger names than mine) with newcomers, some of them making their first sales.
The star names above the title in Ecotones are Lauren Beukes, Ken Liu, and Tobias S. Buckell.
This is a crowdfunded project, through Kickstarter, and the rewards for kicking in are pretty good. Here's where to go.
Ecotones -- an SFF World anthoogy
That Kickstarter-funded ebook anthology from the people at SFFWorld.com has come into existence. It's called Ecotones: Ecological Stories from the Border Between Fantasy and Science Fiction.
On the Table of Contents are Ken Liu, Lauren Beukes, and Tobias S. Buckell, and I contributed the comic relief effort, "Not a Problem," that first saw light in Gordon Van Gelder's theme antho on global warming, Welcome to the Greenhouse.
It's on Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/Ecotones-Ecolog...
It's also on Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
On the Table of Contents are Ken Liu, Lauren Beukes, and Tobias S. Buckell, and I contributed the comic relief effort, "Not a Problem," that first saw light in Gordon Van Gelder's theme antho on global warming, Welcome to the Greenhouse.
It's on Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/Ecotones-Ecolog...
It's also on Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
