Hope everyone who celebrates Thanksgiving had a good one. Me, I'm still full.
We're now officially in the holiday season. Like every year, this time of year presents some unique challenges in terms of balancing work with recreation. Staying focus becomes more difficult with all the family and other obligations that pop up. With that in mind, it'll be interesting to me to see how I do on my own writing progress. This week so far has not been a good one for progress. Fortunately, I still have a few more days.
Here's this weekend's links, then I have to get some writing done. Have a good one.
Women Who Pretended to Be Men to Publish Scifi Books
In 1980, science fiction writer and editor Ben Bova told a group of women writers, “Neither as writers nor as readers have you raised the level of science fiction a notch. Women have written a lot of books about dragons and unicorns, but damned few about future worlds in which adult problems are addressed.”
TSS: The 100 Best Characters in Fiction
Today I thought I'd share an interesting feature from Book Magazine with you - the 100 Best Characters in Fiction since 1900. Do you have a favorite character who is NOT featured on this list?
Phoenix Mars Lander Shuts Down
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has shut down, but its legacy will live on as scientists sift through its data and findings.
Princeton Scientists Discover Proteins that Control Evolution
Evolutionary changes are supposed to take place gradually and randomly, under pressure from natural selection. But a team of Princeton scientists investigating a group of proteins that help cells burn energy stumbled across evidence that this is not how evolution works.
10 Tips to Improve Your Fiction Writing Skills
Writing fiction, whether short or long, can be a very trying experience indeed. So many writers of fiction have different processes for achieving their writing goals that it’s hard to sift through what works and what doesn’t.
Genre at the End of Time
There is a superb passage midway through Greg Bear’s City at the End of Time in which our universe hits the end of time, rolls back and rolls in again like a wave crashing against a sea wall. Echoes of those final moments reiterate; people, all unaware, repeat and repeat and repeat their final actions. […] There are times when I look at science fiction today and see precisely what Greg Bear is describing. The same bits of sf hitting the end wall, rebounding and coming back again in ever fainter echoes of the past.