RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Isaac Asimov died from AIDS

2006-06-29 Thread Nora
hould react to their own lives. And I > don't use the "after all, they lived a good productive life" to knock > people into grave or into submission to the evils of life. > PS: I like you Nora but I've got to say I think you're trying to > misunderstand what

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Isaac Asimov died from AIDS

2006-06-29 Thread Nora
comparison with most people, he'd lived an extraordinary life. > We don't want a fascist world ruled by young people who think that > old people should be rational and positively go gently into that good > night just because the old person is ...old. -C I can't speak

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Isaac Asimov died from AIDS

2006-06-28 Thread Nora
ar, then I see no reason why he would have been angry about his death even if it was hastened by a mistake. (Now, if I get hit by a bus on my way home ya'll, somebody send this email to my mama. =P) Nora Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Great

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: What are you reading?

2006-06-21 Thread Nora
xpand much beyond the original thirteen, because the Native Americans have their own dragons [palomino-colored], and the colonists don't have any.) The first book of the series is HIS MAJESTY'S DRAGON. Nora > -Original Message- > From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com &g

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: What are you reading?

2006-06-20 Thread Nora
rld, but the dragons themselves are slaves as well, and when one of them realizes that dragons could be treated better, he decides to upend British society to demand "dragon equality". It isn't finished yet, but I'm interested in seeing where this goes. Nora --

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Should Steve Barnes Sue George Lucas?

2006-06-20 Thread Nora
So the answer is no, you don't have anything better to contribute. OK. That's all I wanted to know. Nora > -Original Message- > From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Hayden > Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 2:41

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Should Steve Barnes Sue George Lucas?

2006-06-20 Thread Nora
Chris, don't you have anything better to contribute, besides more juvenile insults for black SF authors? Nora Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.co

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Should Steve Barnes Sue George Lucas?

2006-06-20 Thread Nora
t. It still exists in Egypt, the Sudan, and Eritrea today, although I'm told it's separated into various forms and has evolved even in just the centuries since colonization, so I figure it's probably pretty different from the original art as practiced back in the (ancient) day. No

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Books/Stories/Film Recs Needed

2006-06-06 Thread Nora
> Dreamblood by N.K. Jemison (you can do unpublished manuscripts, > can't you?) Sorry, that one's not available for distribution. Nora (N.K. Jemisin) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Get to your groups with one click. Know insta

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Hopkinson sells out?

2006-06-02 Thread Nora
nks there are out there listing published novels in some way or another?  Do you think authors have nothing better to do than Google themselves every other minute?  Good grief. I'm out; this is stupid. Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscr

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Hopkinson sells out?

2006-06-01 Thread Nora
mention catty as hell.  You defeat your own purpose by doing this, Chris.  You're reenacting crabs-in-a-barrell syndrome all over again, sniping at someone who's successful and trying to make them look bad.  I find that to be far more "sellout"-ish behavior than anything NH

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Hopkinson sells out?

2006-05-31 Thread Nora
e is not > or is a part of it? I think she believes what she said in her blog and the subsequent comments. If you think she's been unclear, why don't you post something there and ask her directly about it? Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoo

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Hopkinson sells out?

2006-05-31 Thread Nora
she doesn't want to be classified, categorized, turned into a marketing "brand", or folded/spindled/mutilated by random strangers.  WTF is wrong with that? Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:    [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Dig

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Would immortality be ethical?

2006-05-31 Thread Nora
rything could > last >> forever, the Rosetta Stone would be just another chunk of stone > graffiti. >> (Not to mention the world would be a pretty cluttered, messy place.) >> >> This is the same reason I don't like the idea of extending the > lifetime of a >>

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Would immortality be ethical?

2006-05-30 Thread Nora
, the Rosetta Stone would be just another chunk of stone graffiti. (Not to mention the world would be a pretty cluttered, messy place.) This is the same reason I don't like the idea of extending the lifetime of a copyright, as some companies are trying to do right now, but that's a differ

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Would immortality be ethical?

2006-05-24 Thread Nora
the world becomes immortal, we will have no choice but to stop having children.  There won't be enough resources to go around for an infinitely-growing human population.  Can you imagine a world without children?  It sounds like a much less joyful place to me. Nora Community email addr

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Opinion needed

2006-05-14 Thread Nora
;ve read it, why don't you give us your opinion?  =) Is your timestamp right?  It looks like it took 2 weeks for your message to post.  O.o Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:    [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: The Xenogenisis Trilogy--A Biologist's response

2006-05-11 Thread Nora
birth is supposed to be bloody. > I remember thinking only a woman would have written that story like > that.  ::snicker::  Okay, I'll give you that. > What affect do you think her dyslexia had on her work?  Did you know > Delaney is a dyxlexic, too?  Is this a qualifi

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] When the Devil Crept up in the Church--or Sci Fi moves to the Burbs

2006-05-11 Thread Nora
>> >> Two words:  Harry Potter. >> >> Nora > < > I'll give ya a few more > Lord of the Rings  (Tolkien's trilogy was even as long as one of the > Potters--showed there was a market for real big fat fantasy books > (Gone With the Wind ha

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] When the Devil Crept up in the Church--or Sci Fi moves to the Burbs

2006-05-10 Thread Nora
ville > might be the flavor du jour but Gene Roddenberry is paying the > bills>> Then why'd his shit get cancelled last year? =P > > Anyway -- they're still publishing nursery rhymes and fairy tales > in > > children's fiction these days.  Does that mea

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] When the Devil Crept up in the Church--or Sci Fi moves to the Burbs

2006-05-10 Thread Nora
e people in my corner of blogdom are talking about Geoff Ryman's AIR right now, because it just won some big award and is apparently really good.  It's on my list to check out later. Anyway -- they're still publishing nursery rhymes and fairy tales in children's fiction these days. 

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: The Xenogenisis Trilogy--A Biologist's response

2006-05-10 Thread Nora
're just people.  They have the same baggage and hangups and limitations as anyone else.  They're not channeling the future, or higher consciousness, or any of that shit.  Some of them *are* hacks, and some are geniuses, but the majority are just regular folks who are a little better at spelli

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] When the Devil Crept up in the Church--or Sci Fi moves to the Burbs

2006-05-10 Thread Nora
in 1965 doing the same things they > did then.  There are Dune books using the same Herbert trophes.  > There are Star Wars novelizations with the characters from the 70's. Your point being?  Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subs

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] When the Devil Crept up in the Church--or Sci Fi moves to the Burbs

2006-05-08 Thread Nora
eems to me that the core of your argument (here and elsewhere) is > that SF > > has changed and you don't like it. > < > and writers that have gotten small>> Who is Nora Desmond? >  Some characteristics of the genre are no > > longer predominant.  Those thi

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: The Xenogenisis Trilogy--A Biologist's response

2006-05-08 Thread Nora
> -Original Message- > From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Hayden > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Nora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree with the idea that her work is an analysis of humanity.  > Bu

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] When the Devil Crept up in the Church--or Sci Fi moves to the Burbs

2006-05-06 Thread Nora
g, because it allows room for both the absurd *and* the serious, and everything in between.  But I get the impression you don't like it at all. So could the problem be not that science fiction has gone wrong, but that it has evolved, and you're unwilling/unable to adapt to it? Nora C

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: The Xenogenisis Trilogy--A Biologist's response

2006-05-06 Thread Nora
we will survive, life will go on, and that life will be both good and bad -- same as always. Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:    [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe:  [EMAIL PRO

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Omnipov or not

2006-05-02 Thread Nora
* you can see a little more of what made him that way.  It may be that they covered it later in the book, but I didn't get that far because I got bored about halfway in and gave the book away to someone in my writing group. Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yaho

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] African SF

2006-04-20 Thread Nora
Y'know, I think I read this a long time ago.  I'd forgotten about it.  But I wonder if that's where I saw that story I loved so much?  I'll have to check it out again to see.  =)  Thanks for the recommend! Nora > -Original Message- > From: SciFiNoir_Lit@

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Jigsaw Nation coming out next month

2006-04-18 Thread Nora
This looks great and interesting, Carole! Though I can't help being a writer and pointing out that there are at least two typos in the front jacket flap ("split-up" and "fair" used where "fare" is meant). Has the cover gone to print yet? Nora > -Origi

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] African SF

2006-04-17 Thread Nora
e character who was chosen to become one of these ship people; it was a terrible, traumatic experience for her to have to give up the life she knew. Very different perspective from what one usually sees in SF, but very powerful and poignant. Does anybody recognize this story? Nora Community

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Ender's Game

2006-04-17 Thread Nora
ommend Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide, although many people hate them precisely because they don't do what the Shadow books have done, which is keep the focus on politics and war. If it's the political intrigue, etc., that you like, you probably won't like the other Ender books. (I

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Ender's Game

2006-04-17 Thread Nora
word. Then again, I think that might actually be typical of children; they notice the differences first. Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://g

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Perdido Street Station

2006-04-15 Thread Nora
outspoken about his politics; that may be one of the reasons why his work contains so many themes that feel surprising/refreshing to Americans. I definitely like the result.) There are other good stories in the book, but those are the ones I remember offhand. His stuff is mostly memorable. =)

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] In Defense of Science Fiction--John Clute

2006-04-12 Thread Nora
ing published which have a fundamentally skiffy "look". Anything by Baen, for example. But most publishers seem to have gone for the "less obviously genre" look. Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subs

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Shaggy or Shorn? Who REALLY wants to see their lover naked?!

2006-04-11 Thread Nora
> -Original Message- > From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > It's not Spam, Nora. I'm a member of the group, I write > erotica, erotica horror, horror and fantasy. It's simply a > qu

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Shaggy or Shorn? Who REALLY wants to see their lover naked?!

2006-04-11 Thread Nora
your position on the issue! ~PF > What's with the spam? Granted, it's kind of surreal, but I'm not sure what this has to do with spec fic. =) Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe D

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] National Black Writer's Conference

2006-04-07 Thread Nora
I figured it was because there ain't a lot of sistas named Nora writing speculative fiction. =) Nora > -Original Message- > From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Hayden > Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 12:43 PM &g

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] National Black Writer's Conference

2006-04-05 Thread Nora
But Sheree did such a good job. =) Besides, when I asked around here last week about who was planning to go, I got crickets. So I figured nobody was interested. Nora > -Original Message- > From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chr

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Can you tell?

2006-04-03 Thread Nora
at the two books are part of a trilogy that never got finished; I don't think the author ever finished book 3. =( Other than that, though, I would suggest that anyone try reading at least the first book of that series and try to figure out the author's race. Then ask yourself in that c

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Coop Realm of Fantasy ads

2006-03-30 Thread Nora
ondered how those (the good or the bad) were put together. Do you use CGI figures? How do you come up with artwork? Who writes the blurbs? I'm just curious. Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode:

[SciFiNoir Lit] New York writer's conference

2006-03-27 Thread Nora
http://hosting.bronto.com/5747-5434e825/nbwcprogram_final031806.pdf Is anyone else going to this, this weekend? I'm thinking about it (Saturday only) and was wondering if folks would like to meet for dinner, social stuff, etc. Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoi

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] My Online Reading Group Is Pretentious and Boring

2006-03-24 Thread Nora
of which I've already read or didn't want to read. If your group does some current stuff too, and includes some stuff by female authors, authors of color, etc., then I'd be interested. I'd also like to read some fantasy and horror as well as "pure" sci-fi. Nora

[SciFiNoir Lit] Synopsis advice

2006-03-20 Thread Nora
Good advice found while blogging today: http://home.pcisys.net/~pammc/Synopsis.htm Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Parable of the Writer: Octavia E. Butler, science fiction visionary, 1947­2006

2006-03-19 Thread Nora
7;ve only been here the past 3 or 4 years), friends, my blog, the kitchen sink, etc. And anyhow, the Earthseed component of the book was never the part that interested me most. Though as I recall, when I posted a thread to discuss "Fledgling," there wasn't a whole lot of response he

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Parable of the Writer: Octavia E. Butler, science fiction visionary, 1947­2006

2006-03-17 Thread Nora
confusing the short story "Bloodchild" with the Xenogenesis books. ::shakes head, sighs:: Y'know... I'm getting really angry with the way the media have been warping Octavia in the wake of her death. Just say she wrote science fiction, damn, and leave the rest of her life alone. No

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] If It Ain't Speculative and It Ain't Fiction, Need Black Folks Read Spec Fic?

2006-03-16 Thread Nora
> --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Nora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> http://www.thumperscorner.com/discus/messages/179/10675.html? > 1142370267 >> >> ::sigh:: Chris, I continue to wonder why you still read and write > for this >> field

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Synopses

2006-03-16 Thread Nora
> --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Nora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> But no one sells anything from the synopsis alone. > < Of course they are people with proven track records--usually. > According to the sources I consulted,people sell books from the > synp

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] If It Ain't Speculative and It Ain't Fiction, Need Black Folks Read Spec Fic?

2006-03-14 Thread Nora
on which, of course, I continue to disagree with you. =) Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo!

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Synopses

2006-03-14 Thread Nora
a 30,000-word section of my novel, but by focusing on the character's purpose I was able to reduce it to "After a perilous desert journey and a skirmish with a rogue army, they (the characters) discover (purpose)..." Hope this helps. Good luck! Nora Community email addres

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Hi all -- dumb question about hour/week

2006-03-10 Thread Nora
e night > KUCHA KUTWA 24 hours The whole day and whole night > > Great stuff. That is great! Thanks for posting this! Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe:

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Hi all -- dumb question about hour/week

2006-03-09 Thread Nora
ttle crazy with it, though. =P ("Oh, no! This sandwich has *five* slices of tomato!! It's unlucky!") Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Octavia E. Butler: 1947-2006

2006-03-03 Thread Nora
y reputation is riding on it. But the stories I know are good? Yes, I want them to sell. And thus far, they have -- not always on the first try, but eventually. Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Dige

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Octavia E. Butler: 1947-2006

2006-03-02 Thread Nora
If I won the lottery, I would travel... and still keep writing. Because for me, that's what makes me feel alive. Nora > -Original Message- > From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sancochojo > Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Octavia E. Butler: 1947-2006

2006-03-01 Thread Nora
ice backlog of novels ready to put out one after the other, at Stephen-King speed. =P So I haven't resorted to coffee or alcohol yet. (Though I do tend to go out dancing, go for a really hard bike ride or workout, or play violent video games as catharsis when I get an especially rou

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Octavia E. Butler: 1947-2006

2006-03-01 Thread Nora
already know I can write a novel in a year. Once you find out you have the discipline to work at a professional pace -- and you can figure this out even before you become a professional -- then success really shouldn't do you that much damage. Of course, my tune may change if I eve

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Mindscape

2006-03-01 Thread Nora
Woo hoo! Congratulations, Andrea! Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*&

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Has Octavia Butler passed ?

2006-02-26 Thread Nora
> > Can any one confirm this story of Octavia Butler's death founf here: > > http://darkush.blogspot.com/ <http://darkush.blogspot.com/> > > George Cook www.letstalkhonestly.com <http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/> Apparently it's true. Locus conf

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] The Wave by Walter Moseley

2006-02-21 Thread Nora
k! I read it twice over the weekend. But what is it about? Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yah

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Character the most important element of Fiction?

2006-02-21 Thread Nora
t he was used in such a silly way that in the end I didn't feel like he'd achieved anything important. Card's most recent novel, "Magic Street", has a similar problem, but I probably shouldn't talk about it because I disliked it so much that I stopped halfway through

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Are we born evil?

2006-02-07 Thread Nora
he "soulless monster" usually seen in movies. The most common form of sociopath shows the same kind of antisocial behavior seen in stereotypical sci-fi fans. =P Nora > -Original Message- > From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jer

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Does 'Narnia' Actually Suck?

2006-01-12 Thread Nora
e Pilgrim's > Redress. In this review he seems to be implying that all of Lewis' > works are simplistic. That's a bit underhanded and unbalanced of him. I agree that the review isn't quite fair. I think what happened is that this reporter fell for the "Narn

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Odyssey the Summer Fantasy Writing Workshop

2006-01-08 Thread Nora
o go to VP). Is that a Clarion West/Clarion East difference, or did somebody just tell me wrong? (It was the one in the midwest that I was considering.) Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode:

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Odyssey the Summer Fantasy Writing Workshop

2006-01-05 Thread Nora
> -Original Message- > From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Hayden > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "Nora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Odyssey sounded interesting to me, but I didn't

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Odyssey the Summer Fantasy Writing Workshop

2006-01-05 Thread Nora
Last I heard, Odyssey was just as selective as Clarion. It's very much the same as Clarion, just different in its focus (fantasy) and format (novels and shorts). Nora > -Original Message- > From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf O

[SciFiNoir Lit] FW: [CarlBrandon] Carl Brandon Society Announces Two $1,000 Juried Awards

2006-01-04 Thread Nora
Ooh. =) FYI for all -- anyone who's been published can qualify. Nora -- Forwarded Message > Subject: [CarlBrandon] Carl Brandon Society Announces Two $1,000 Juried Awards > > +++ > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > Contacts: > > Pam Noles > Awar

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Odyssey the Summer Fantasy Writing Workshop

2006-01-04 Thread Nora
rm, intensive workshop is the best way to improve my skills. VP was great, but we didn't do a lot of work on technique -- it's an *industry* workshop, not really a *writing* workshop. I may still consider Odyssey at some point, but it'll have to wait until I'm eit

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Odyssey the Summer Fantasy Writing Workshop

2006-01-03 Thread Nora
ave the reputation of Clarion, and it hasn't pulled instructors with the same clout yet. Odyssey does have one advantage in that writers can do novels there (at Clarion it's just short stories), but in my own opinion, if a person can handle a six-week workshop, they should go for the be

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Fantasy vs Sci Fi

2005-12-27 Thread Nora
On 12/27/05 1:39 PM, "Chris Hayden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Nora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> No modern fantasy can get away with "no regard for logic or physical >> realities". That doesn'

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Fantasy vs Sci Fi

2005-12-27 Thread Nora
On 12/27/05 1:36 PM, "Chris Hayden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "Nora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com >>> [mailto:[EMA

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Fantasy vs Sci Fi

2005-12-27 Thread Nora
e interested in breaking the rules of conventional literature than in adhering to the rules of fantasy. But then a lot of readers consider slippy/magireal stuff to not be fantasy, just another branch of the literary fiction genre. ...and why am I getting emails from this list a week after they'

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Fantasy vs Sci Fi

2005-12-27 Thread Nora
as to have internal consistency and it *usually* needs to parallel with the rules of our own reality, such as physics or linguistics, or readers reject it. Granted, I haven't read *everything,* but I've been studying fantasy pretty closely for the past 10 years (checking out competitors

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Fantasy vs Sci Fi

2005-12-22 Thread Nora
t a pseudoscientific explanation). > I say Fantasy is more popular. In the literary realm I would agree with you. Not in comics, especially not American comics. Maybe in Japanese manga. In films I would say sci-fi is far, far more popular. In games I dunno. But overall, in the mains

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Fantasy vs Sci Fi

2005-12-21 Thread Nora
On 12/21/05 4:54 PM, "Chris Hayden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is Fantasy more popular than Sci Fi? Define "popular." Nora Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Know an art & music fan? Make a donation in t

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: For the Love of Narnia

2005-12-12 Thread Nora
, murdered, and then is resurrected in a more powerful form. It's basically "The Passion of the Christ" for kids. With talking animals. Nora Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Life without art & music? Keep the arts alive today at Netwo

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Why Blacks Don't Read Sci Fi--Farnham's Freehold

2005-12-05 Thread Nora
even her own followers fixate their efforts on getting off the planet (as Earthseed's core tenet espouses) rather than fixing the planet they're on. They do enough to survive in that world and improve themselves, and by nature that means they improve the world, but for the

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] How Will Speculative Fiction be influenced by Post 9/11 events?

2005-11-21 Thread Nora
"'Sam" had a gay marriage to celebrate the end of the war on terror. And there have been a number of anthologies in the last few years which collected stories on terrorism, etc. At least, I saw them soliciting on Ralan; I don't know if they ever got off the ground. Nora --

[SciFiNoir Lit] Laurell K. Hamilton

2005-11-08 Thread Nora
ore they get theirs?? Whoo baby. =P Just for that, I don't mind that the books basically have no plot. But hey, neither does men's porn. Nora Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! you

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Octavia Butler's Fledgling: A Novel

2005-10-18 Thread Nora
bad guys, they just handled them better. Shori felt ultimately Mary-Sue-ish to me. So I guess overall I didn't like it. But I want to chew on it awhile longer, because I've often found that I appreciate her works better after some thinking and re-reading. Nora --

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Is Science Fiction Afraid of Hip Hop?

2005-10-14 Thread Nora
group *other* than black people. Black people and hip hop is easy, a no-brainer. Black people and some other musical form/lifestyle -- yeah, that I like. And some other ethnic group doing hip hop -- yeah, that I would like too. Nora Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Is Science Fiction Afraid of Hip Hop?

2005-10-13 Thread Nora
, who uses all kinds of old rock songs in his stuff, but I can't think of many others who do that. I was also thinking of sci fi in which music is somehow integral to the story, maybe part of the science in some way. Can you think of examples of that? Nora Yaho

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Is Science Fiction Afraid of Hip Hop?

2005-10-13 Thread Nora
mber of fantasies filled with Celtic music, folk songs, and stuff like that. I've seen some jazz/blues-flavored anime ("Cowboy Bebop"), and hip-hop flavored anime by the same creator ("Samurai Champloo"), but the latter isn't sci fi, and neither is Amer

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] call for submissions

2005-10-02 Thread Nora
This anthology sounds really interesting! But I wonder why they make you email them for submission guidelines, rights, payment info, etc. That's very odd. Nora Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Ma

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: FW: [CarlBrandon] H.P. Lovecraft, Yo

2005-09-28 Thread Nora
also skipping your chance to *fight* his brand of racism. Not saying you gotta write anything, BTW -- just suggesting a paradigm shift. =) Nora - Original Message - From: "Carole McDonnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:44 AM Subject:

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Anyone here belong to SWFA or CarlBrandon

2005-09-28 Thread Nora
re I hipped him to the above. > I would say that membership in the group would be like being in any > other professional organization--give you extra clout, etc. Plus, their most useful information has always been this, IMO: http://www.sfwa.org/writing/ Which AFAIC is one of the best free onlin

[SciFiNoir Lit] FW: [CarlBrandon] H.P. Lovecraft, Yo

2005-09-27 Thread Nora
...Straight out of Arkham?? BWAHAHAHA -- OK, I want to read it already. FYI for all who didn't see it on Carl Brandon. Nora -- Forwarded Message > From: grlshaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 03:21:31 - > To:

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Anyone on the list good at synopsis writing?

2005-09-18 Thread Nora
t say whether I'm *good*, but I can send you the synopsis that got two agents interested in asking for my novel. I sent it along with three sample chapters, but I'm assuming the synopsis must've helped. I'll send it offlist. Feel free to send me yours offlist too. Nora

[SciFiNoir Lit] Tamora Pierce

2005-09-10 Thread Nora
since I didn't read the book but bought 5 copies and donated them anyway, I'm wondering just what I may have bought. Has anyone read this book, or anything else by this author? What did you think? Nora Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Get f

[SciFiNoir Lit] FW: [DT_Fam] Sir Mixalot, in Victorian English

2005-08-19 Thread Nora
This came from the Metaquotes community on LiveJournal (http://www.livejournal.com/community/metaquotes/3695692.html) where basically a bunch of people just put together lyrics to "Baby Got Back"... in Victorian English. I'm rolling on the floor. Nora -- Oh my word, Miss Rebecc

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] The Sophia Stewart lawsuit

2005-08-03 Thread Nora
t, they were high school/college kids. Why would she have ever sent it to them? And WTF do "The Matrix" and "The Terminator" have to do with each other, other than an AI taking over the world? Good grief, scientists have been predicting that for decades. =P All my log

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Story up at Strange Horizons

2005-08-02 Thread Nora
Thanks. =) Do you mean you want a sequel?? Everybody's dead and the world has ended; not sure what else there is to say. =) And if you think I should get a Nebula, be sure to tell any of your friends in SFWA to read the story and nominate me. ^_- Nora > -Original Message

[SciFiNoir Lit] Story up at Strange Horizons

2005-08-01 Thread Nora
::squeal:: My sci-fi-ish story "Cloud Dragon Skies" has just been posted at STRANGE HORIZONS! And it got a great illustration by Frank Wu! I'm all psyched. =) http://www.strangehorizons.com/2005/20050801/jemisin-f.shtml Nora --- Epiphany http://home.earthlink.net/~njem Viabl

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Charisma, attraction and readership

2005-07-15 Thread Nora
evil, even if they do have tortured souls; b) gay; or c) castrated, sterile, or otherwise emasculated. (Hmm. I'm seeing a trend here.) Anne Bishop -- OK, I'll give Reed that one. Her men are all bloodthirsty psychopaths or obsessive tricksters, but they can usually be redeemed/cont

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] From Vampires to the Boy Jesus

2005-07-14 Thread Nora
o market this to evangelical Christians? Most of those sects (to my knowledge) consider Catholicism to be almost as questionable as Islam or atheism. Anne might be opening herself up to an ugly backlash here. Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] O/T -- Speaking of narrative structure

2005-07-10 Thread Nora
f the video is based on *his* experiences, which clearly aren't all that fantastic on the relationship front. But then considering how he treats women, does that really surprise anyone? Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTE

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Wrtiing Technique and Writers Block

2005-07-07 Thread Nora
iting for a while and go traveling to some place new. This wakes up my creative circuits like nothing else, and it's not always expensive -- sometimes just finding a new place in or near your town will do. Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subsc

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Blacks and Sci Fi--Let me Clarify My Position

2005-07-06 Thread Nora
ir_Lit collection? =P Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Blacks and Sci Fi--Let me Clarify MyPosition

2005-07-06 Thread Nora
a fantasy metaphor) but fear not. > You are near to the Kingdom. ::stare:: WTF does that mean? Y'know what? I'm tired of this. It's impossible to carry on an intelligent debate when you insist upon using rhetoric and opinion as "proof" of your points. Your &

Re: 2nd attempt to post RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Public archives

2005-07-05 Thread Nora
. something is definitely up with yahoo. I > just want to be prepared this time. No, no, I understand completely! Glad you're doing it. =) Nora Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mo

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Blacks and Sci Fi--Let me Clarify MyPosition

2005-07-05 Thread Nora
On 7/5/05 4:44 PM, "Chris Hayden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "Nora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> -Original Message- >>>> than I did at my sorority (DST, if you're wondering) > <&g

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