This week's story was about someone trying to open a gate to a parallel universe. I had a prompt from a competition on a forum I frequent, I haven't seen how I rate yet, so you'll hear next week 🙂 I finished reading Reflex and it was really good, the writing seemed to improve a …
New Year
Happy 2014! 2014 sounds like a futuristic year, doesn't it? It has a good vibe, a nice tone, I think it will be a good year. The year is over and it's time to add up things, this year I submitted 33 times and sold 1 story, i read 15 novels, or 16 if you …
Week 13 and Jumper (and Ubik)
Another week, another story. This time I wrote about someone accidentally transporting himself into a motivational poster. I took inspiration from a novel I just finished: Jumper, by Steven Gould. I got it cause I saw that the new sequel, Impulse, was on the Nebula reading list. It's about a guy who learns he can …
Week 12 and A Scanner Darkly
Another week down and I actually like the story I did this week... for now. I may hate it when I read it again in a couple weeks. It's about an old man with a head injury trying to decide if the strange thing he's seeing out his kitchen window is real or not. I …
Week 11 and The Demolished Man
I have survived another week, and read another Alfred Bester novel. This week I wrote about a duel fought with time guns... yeah, probably just as dumb as it sounds. I also read The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester. It's the story of a murder committed in a world full of telepaths--a world that hasn't …
Jonas David 