Showing posts with label robert j. sawyer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robert j. sawyer. Show all posts

Friday, March 1, 2013

New free online science fiction magazine has arrived

It's here! The first issue of Galaxy's Edge, a free online magazine from Phoenix Pick.

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Some mini-excerpts from various stories:

"You know how it can be done, right? Actually make a big bang. No, I’m not kidding. Look, it’s not really that hard. Theoretically. All you have to do is pack a few kilograms of ordinary matter into a sufficiently small space, really small, considerably smaller than an atomic nucleus. Then, when you release the pressure that constrains it, the thing explodes."

As he walked, he could hear the faintest snick of gears, the moto-robo-electronic zizzing of invisible mechanics in the room around him. Where was he? Who was he? Why was he? He had no idea.

Twelve hundred years had elapsed since the blood had been siphoned out of my body and oxygenated antifreeze had been pumped in to replace it. We’d spent the first of those years accelerating, and presumably the last one decelerating, and the rest—

Her father came from Thana, near Bombay, and her favorite flavor of chewyfrute was watermelon and she’d had five lovers and when she was eleven she had wanted to be a gymnast but instead she had become a biomaterials engineer who at age twenty-nine had volunteered to go to the stars to learn how to grow artificial eyes.


You can read Galaxy's Edge free online or download a digital version (PDF / Mobi / ePub) for $2.99. A print version will be available soon.


Sunday, April 29, 2012

Science fiction author birthday

Photo credit: Carolyn Clink

Science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer was born in Ottawa, Canada, on April 29, 1960. So today's his birthday and I thought I'd mark it by sharing a few items:

A short interview on CTV (Canada's largest private broadcaster)
Bibliography at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
A short story you can read free (and more free reading here and here)
His entry on Science Fiction in The Canadian Encyclopedia
Upcoming appearance at DucKon 21

Have you read any of his works?