 |
Introducing the first Nova Genesis World novel Dispensing Justice by Fritz Freiheit and illustrated by Matt Howarth.
|
 |
|
Link dump for 20120308
From FritzWiki
[edit] Links
- 'Adopt an Indie' (Redirect)
Redirects to http://theindieexchange.com/ - 10 Themes Shared By Historical Fiction and Science Fiction -- io9 (io9, Fiction, Fiction.Historical, Historical, SciFi, SF, Theme)
- 25 Reasons Readers Will Quit Reading Your Story (Advice, Writing)
- 40+ Free Tools for Authors -- passwordincorrect.com (Writing, FreeWare, Free, List, Tool, Author)
- 48 Other Things We Love About Doctor Who | SFX (DoctorWho)
- 5 Scientific Advances That Should Have Changed Everything | Cracked.com (AlternateHistory, Discovery, History, Science)
- A map that shows where science might take us by 2021 (Graphic, Map, io9, Tech, Futurism)
- Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: Spherical Spaceships, Spherical Aliens, Unidentified Spheres « Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations (Gallery, SpaceShip, Retro, Art, CoverArt, Cover, SciFi, SF)
- Artifice and Apparitions: A Reverie Concerning Fantastika's Fictive Vivifications -- SF Signal (SpeculativeFiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Reading)
- Best. research paper abstract. evar. - Boing Boing (FTL, Neutrino, Pick, Abstract)
- BestSFBooks (List, Recommendation, Reading, SciFi, SF)
- Book Bags and Cat Naps.com (WebSite, Review, Book)
- Can an author create an EPUB file using normal tools? Part 1: Pages : Threepress Consulting blog (HowTo.Build, HowTo.Make, HowTo, Epub)
- Dog Bites Man; Pope Condemns Violence; Publishing Still Doesn’t Get It | TechCrunch (VisitFromClueFairy, VisitFromClueFairy.Suggested, Publishing.Traditional, Publishing)
- ePub - MobileRead Forums (Forum, Epub)
- epubcheck - Validation tool for EPUB - Google Project Hosting (OpenSource, FreeWare, Tool, Validation, Epub)
- Falling In Love With Romance: Want to Jumpstart your Ebook Sales? (Ebook, Marketing, Sales, Advice)
- FontForge -- sourceforge.net (SourceForge, Editor, Tool, OpenSource, Font)
- Gaseous halos of galaxies are much larger, more massive than the distribution of stars within the galaxy -- physorg.com (AstroPhysics, Astronomy, Gas, Star, Galaxy)
New, high-precision equipment orbiting Earth aboard the Hubble Space Telescope is now sending such rich data back to astronomers, some feel they are crossing the final frontier toward understanding galaxy evolution, says Todd Tripp, leader of the team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. - Getting reviewed – things to keep in mind | 'Adopt an Indie' (Broken, BrokenLink, Advice, Author, Book, Review)
Look in the google cache for this - Guest Post: Superheroes and the Right of Publicity | Law and the Multiverse (Law, Publicity, Superhero)
- How do Smashwords, Bookbaby, Lulu and Bibliocore Compare? | The Passive Voice (Bibliocore, Lulu, Bookbaby, Smashwords, Comparison, Epublisher)
- How Should You Spend Your Book Marketing Budget? | Jane Friedman (Publishing.Self, Publishing, SelfPublishing, Advice, Marketing)
- How to self-publish a book at lulu.com using print on demand (SelfPublishing, Publishing.Self, Publishing, HowTo, PrintOnDemand, POD, Lulu)
- Improve the Quality of ePub eBooks with Sigil - How-To Geek (Publishing.Self, SelfPublishing, HowTo, Tool, Epub, Sigil)
- Massive volcanoes, meteorite impacts delivered one-two death punch to dinosaurs: study -- physorg.com (Dinosaur, Results, Study, Extinction.Mass, Extinction, Volcano, Astroid.Impact, Asteroid)
A cosmic one-two punch of colossal volcanic eruptions and meteorite strikes likely caused the mass-extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period that is famous for killing the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, according to two Princeton University reports that reject the prevailing theory that the extinction was caused by a single large meteorite. - MIND MELD: Writing Tools and Exercises -- SF Signal (Advice, Exercise, Tool, Writing, MindMeld)
- My second book comes out today. Here's what I've learned since the last one. : writing (Reddit, LessonsLearned, Author, Publishing)
- New data confirms: Neutrinos are still traveling faster than light -- io9 (io9, FTL, Neutrino)
- Pretentious Title: How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day (Writing, Advice)
- Reading Digitally Infographic (InfoGraphic, Ebook, Reading)
- Redundancy: The reason why is because people just don't like it | The Economist (Analysis, Preference, Reading, Reader, English, Words, Language, Writing)
GABE DOYLE of Motivated Grammar (motto: "Prescriptivism must die!"), is sticking up for "the reason why". The phrase is usually criticised by sticklers as redundant. Mr Doyle makes an in important counterargument: redundancy is a core feature of language. Every language has features that are not required for comprehension, but reinforce something that is also conveyed another way. In the Spanish phrase las tres casas blancas, "the three white houses", every single word is marked for plurality. "Three" would suffice to let the listener know we aren't talking about one house (and the number would be all that's required in languages that don't mark plurality on nouns and adjectives), but Spanish grammar requires the rest of the markers. And redundancy is a feature, not a bug, of many noisy systems: no city or state name is needed if the US Postal Service has a ZIP code. But if one digit of the code is illegible, the city and state name will make sure your letter gets there anyway. The ri - Robin Williams explains the totally random origin of Mork and Mindy -- io9 (MorkAndMindy, TV, io9, History, SitCom, Origin, RobinWilliams)
- Science Fiction Is Far -- Overcoming Bias (WhatWorks, Analysis, Advice, StoryTelling, Writing, BigDumbObject, SciFi, SF, Reading)
I decided that I would write ALIEN ARTEFACTS but call it BIG DUMB OBJECTS. … But the joke was on me, because as I came to write the entry, I realized that the subject– which was vast alien enigmatic artefacts–was at the heart of what attracted people to science fiction. And even stranger, I realized that no matter what literary shortcomings you found in Big Dumb Object sf – and believe me, there are plenty – that Big Dumb Object stories were often successful, that even if badly written they were usually good to read. Why? / There is in science fiction, even or especially (as I will argue later) in so-called Hard science fiction, something which in other context we tend to think of as unscientific, be it called sense of wonder, or the sublime, or the transcendent as the Panshins have it, or the romantic. And one rather mechanical way of creating this effect is for the storyteller to imagine something very very big and mysterious, like the spaceship Rama, or like Larry Niven’s Ringworld - Science Fiction Techniques in Spy Novels: James Bond and George Smiley | The King of Elfland's Second Cousin (SpyFi, JamesBond, Spy, Writing, SciFi, SF)
- Scientists create light from vacuum (VacuumEnergy, Vacuum, Physics)
Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology have succeeded in creating light from vacuum – observing an effect first predicted over 40 years ago. The results will be published tomorrow (Wednesday) in the journal Nature. In an innovative experiment, the scientists have managed to capture some of the photons that are constantly appearing and disappearing in the vacuum. - Self-publishers need to start minding their manners - Taleist (Professionalism, Author, Publishing.Self, Publishing, SelfPublishing)
- The Business Rusch: Writers and Traditional Publishing Companies | Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Writer, Author, Relationship, Publishing.Traditional, Publishing, BusinessRusch, Business)
- The confessions of a semi-successful author - Salon.com (MidList, Advice, Author)
- The Evolution of Western Dance Music! (Evolution, History, Relationship, Graph, InfoGraphic, Dance, Music, Interactive, Graphic)
- The New World of Publishing: 95% of All Authors Will Never Indie Publish -- Dean Wesley Smith (Why, Author, Publishing.Self, SelfPublising, IndiePublishing, Publishing)
- The Qwillery: Guest Blog by Adam Christopher - In Blackest Night: blending science fiction and noir - November 23, 2011 (SF, SciFi, Noir, Genre)
- The Roots of Arabian Fantasy by Howard Andrew Jones -- Guest Post -- SF Signal (History, Arabic, Fantasy)
- Toxic Tempers And Fevered Egos In Publishing (Fail, Professionalism, Publishing.Traditional, Publishing.Self, SelfPublishing, Publishing)
- Why We Love "Big Dumb Object" Science Fiction Stories -- io9 (io9, SciFi, SF, BigDumbObject)
- World building 101 - Charlie's Diary (Advice, Writing, WorldBuilding)
- Writing a Marketable Superhero Novel -- Superhero Nation (Fritz.Comment, Fritz, Novel, Superhero, Market, Advice, Writing)
[edit] Tagged Art
[edit] Tagged Author
- 40+ Free Tools for Authors -- passwordincorrect.com
- Getting reviewed – things to keep in mind | 'Adopt an Indie'
- My second book comes out today. Here's what I've learned since the last one. : writing
- Self-publishers need to start minding their manners - Taleist
- The Business Rusch: Writers and Traditional Publishing Companies | Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- The confessions of a semi-successful author - Salon.com
- The New World of Publishing: 95% of All Authors Will Never Indie Publish -- Dean Wesley Smith
[edit] Tagged Book+Review
[edit] Tagged Fantasy
- Artifice and Apparitions: A Reverie Concerning Fantastika's Fictive Vivifications -- SF Signal
- The Roots of Arabian Fantasy by Howard Andrew Jones -- Guest Post -- SF Signal
[edit] Tagged FreeWare
- 40+ Free Tools for Authors -- passwordincorrect.com
- epubcheck - Validation tool for EPUB - Google Project Hosting
[edit] Tagged Futurism
[edit] Tagged Genre
[edit] Tagged OpenSource
[edit] Tagged Pick
[edit] Tagged Publishing
- Dog Bites Man; Pope Condemns Violence; Publishing Still Doesn’t Get It | TechCrunch
- How Should You Spend Your Book Marketing Budget? | Jane Friedman
- How to self-publish a book at lulu.com using print on demand
- My second book comes out today. Here's what I've learned since the last one. : writing
- Self-publishers need to start minding their manners - Taleist
- The Business Rusch: Writers and Traditional Publishing Companies | Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- The New World of Publishing: 95% of All Authors Will Never Indie Publish -- Dean Wesley Smith
- Toxic Tempers And Fevered Egos In Publishing
[edit] Tagged Reading
- Artifice and Apparitions: A Reverie Concerning Fantastika's Fictive Vivifications -- SF Signal
- BestSFBooks
- Reading Digitally Infographic
- Redundancy: The reason why is because people just don't like it | The Economist
- Science Fiction Is Far -- Overcoming Bias
[edit] Tagged Recommendation
[edit] Tagged Review
[edit] Tagged SelfPublishing
- How Should You Spend Your Book Marketing Budget? | Jane Friedman
- How to self-publish a book at lulu.com using print on demand
- Improve the Quality of ePub eBooks with Sigil - How-To Geek
- Self-publishers need to start minding their manners - Taleist
- Toxic Tempers And Fevered Egos In Publishing
[edit] Tagged SF
- 10 Themes Shared By Historical Fiction and Science Fiction -- io9
- Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: Spherical Spaceships, Spherical Aliens, Unidentified Spheres « Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
- BestSFBooks
- Science Fiction Is Far -- Overcoming Bias
- Science Fiction Techniques in Spy Novels: James Bond and George Smiley | The King of Elfland's Second Cousin
- The Qwillery: Guest Blog by Adam Christopher - In Blackest Night: blending science fiction and noir - November 23, 2011
- Why We Love "Big Dumb Object" Science Fiction Stories -- io9
[edit] Tagged Superhero
- Guest Post: Superheroes and the Right of Publicity | Law and the Multiverse
- Writing a Marketable Superhero Novel -- Superhero Nation
[edit] Tagged TV
[edit] Tagged Words
[edit] Tagged WorldBuilding
[edit] Tagged Writing
- 25 Reasons Readers Will Quit Reading Your Story
- 40+ Free Tools for Authors -- passwordincorrect.com
- MIND MELD: Writing Tools and Exercises -- SF Signal
- Pretentious Title: How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day
- Redundancy: The reason why is because people just don't like it | The Economist
- Science Fiction Is Far -- Overcoming Bias
- Science Fiction Techniques in Spy Novels: James Bond and George Smiley | The King of Elfland's Second Cousin
- World building 101 - Charlie's Diary
- Writing a Marketable Superhero Novel -- Superhero Nation
[edit] Tag Cloud
Abstract Advice AlternateHistory Analysis Arabic Art Asteroid AstroPhysics Astroid.Impact Astronomy Author Bibliocore BigDumbObject Book Bookbaby Broken BrokenLink Business BusinessRusch Comparison Cover CoverArt Dance Dinosaur Discovery DoctorWho Ebook Editor English Epub Epublisher Evolution Exercise Extinction Extinction.Mass FTL Fail Fantasy Fiction Fiction.Historical Font Forum Free FreeWare Fritz Fritz.Comment Futurism Galaxy Gallery Gas Genre Graph Graphic Historical History HowTo HowTo.Build HowTo.Make IndiePublishing InfoGraphic Interactive JamesBond Language Law LessonsLearned List Lulu Map Market Marketing MidList MindMeld MorkAndMindy Music Neutrino Noir Novel OpenSource Origin POD Physics Pick Preference PrintOnDemand Professionalism Publicity Publishing Publishing.Self Publishing.Traditional Reader Reading Recommendation Reddit Redirect Relationship Results Retro Review RobinWilliams SF Sales SciFi Science SelfPublishing SelfPublising Sigil SitCom Smashwords SourceForge SpaceShip SpeculativeFiction Spy SpyFi Star StoryTelling Study Superhero TV Tech Theme Tool Vacuum VacuumEnergy Validation VisitFromClueFairy VisitFromClueFairy.Suggested Volcano WebSite WhatWorks Why Words WorldBuilding Writer Writing io9
