Sarah Kanning

Okay, so it turns out it was bad timing for me to read The Road by Cormac McCarthy last week, right before the World Health Organization (WHO) raised its pandemic alert from 3 to 4 (I think levels 5 and 6 are the official “holy crap” levels), AND two (mild) cases of swine flu turned [...]

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Found this en route to other things; it’s an attempt to demystify for writers the several varieties of rejection letters they send out, interspersed with haiku to keep things light
such as
I love your story
Please send more soon. But only
ones without vampires.
and
liked your writing
but I didn’t get what was
with the big robot
Their levels of warm [...]

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On his site, ConceptualFiction.com, Ted Gioia asks, “Did sci-fi writers from the 1940s and 1950s  anticipate the future of serious literature better than the so-called “serious writers” or, for that matter, the highbrow critics?”
Yes.
This essay is dear to my heart, as one who loves Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities just as much as Ursula K. le [...]

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If you’ve been watching Joss Whedon’s new show Dollhouse this spring, here’s a little science tidbit for you:  Brain Power – Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory
Of course, they are still REALLY far away from editing memories in humans, but they seem to have been able to erase (in a broad/blunt way, at least) [...]

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Do yourself a favor, take a writing break and go visit “A Comprehensive and Totally Universal Listing of Every Problem a Story Has Ever Had,” by Douglas A. Van Belle, in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. Particularly #7, Point of View is Like a Box of Condoms. Fun and useful.
Also, because I live in a cave, [...]

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