Gay Science Fiction discussion

Aldous will be running this activity. I am setting up the thread now so people can start getting in touch with their muse.

Haikus have three lines, with 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables respectively.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku


Here's one by Mike Kretsch:

Someone please tell me
why it is we don't have one.
(a base on the moon?)

Okay, this I might have to try.

Jumping right in with my first attempt at Haiku since primary school:

Disruption in time:
Past and future collide like
Ripples on a pond.

Peggy wrote: "Jumping right in with my first attempt at Haiku since primary school:

Disruption in time:
Past and future collide like
Ripples on a pond."

Awesome.

Nice!

The steel clouds dissolved
that the lithium sun might know
your silicone skin.

Zeo wrote: "The steel clouds dissolved
that the lithium sun might know
your silicone skin."

Shiny. :-)

(a base on the moon), temporal disruptions and lithium suns.... gorgeous.

Five carbon based rings
Create sharks, humans, kestrels
Shared infinite strands

Primordial ooze
takes shape in a hostile clime.
A new home is born.

@Angel - sharks and strands and kestrels....yeah, I can see why you write :)

@cturtlechick - evocative! Did you mean Earth, or terraforming? Either way, love it.

Sidebar Bonus Competition #1

Every now and again I'm going to post a bonus competition in this area in addition to the main SciFi Haiku winners. For this prize, make me a haiku with a minimum of two of the following words:

blaster
lune
apsis
thrust
gee

Happy syllable counting!
-Aldous

Ok here is my boring but heartfelt contribution:

500 members
who love gay science fiction
what excellent taste

(and now you now why I read rather than write(!))

Mystery Wonder
Apart Emerged United
Fiction, Science, Gay

@Charming @Gary Awesome! I like meta/funny/self-referential

Poetry I can do. Prose not so much. Here's mine.

A blaster in space,
Two lunes in apsis brightly:
Wonders thrust on gee

(probably really obscure but I took it as a challenge to use ALL the words. :) ) Too bad there is not a center html tag. Haiku is supposed to be visually centered as well.

@Kim *grin* - obscure but....complete.

Congratulations, you win the sidebar challenge.

Everyone else: The main Haiku Challenge is still open....give us your syllables!

Cool! Thank you. This sidebar got me to look for my other poetry. Yeah.

Attention members: this activity will end on August 26th so get your entries in.

Adrift in deep space
Suspended and long asleep
Time to awaken

@Penumbra

Simple, and absolutely beautiful. Really does need a SciFi-familiar background - Charming was talking about that in Blaine's thread today, about how much we infer just from a few lines because we're familiar with SciFi.

Oh - I love Penumbra's :) SF minimalism.

Thanks, Aldous and Angel :) I guess it does sound like it could be a book blurb with the right image.

Prize Winners

Hiya folks - this was a very difficult thing to do, start narrowing down choices to award prizes to. Everything was so very fantastic! But we tried, and here's the list of winners:

1. Zeo, for Lithium Sun
2. Penumbra, for Long Asleep
3. Kim, for the sidebar challenge with Blasters in Space

And one more! A "People's Choice" award - I've started a poll, over here: http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/70...

Just head on over and vote. Ask your friends to vote. Ask your enemies. The poll will run till Friday, at which point we're going to choose the writer whose haiku the most people enjoyed.

Cheers, and have a fantastic day!
-Aldous

And the People's Choice award goes to Charming, who deserves it very much :)

Oh, only just saw this - woohoo!

Oh you guys. Blush.