Hello all,
Many of you know that I’m an F&SF writer and have expressed an interest in my work. By happy coincidence I just got a note on my latest short story publication.
It’s humorous SF and it’s in the latest issue of Cosmic SF. Unlike most of the venues that buy my stuff, Cosmic is an electronic magazine and currently available for free in PDF format via the above link. It’s one my older stories, written in 1997, but I’m still quite fond of it.
For people who are interested in a completely different sort of SF, currently also free, a cycle of stories that I wrote as part of a middle school science curriculum is available in PDF format. These stories are primarily designed to convey specific ideas in physical science and scientific reasoning. I think they’re fun, but they’re not what you’d call representative of my wider body of work.
In order to get there, go to http://interactionste.net/ then click on the link http://cipskids.sdsu.edu/ and fill in the username and password visible on the bottom of that first page (http://interactionste.net/) then one more click on the link labeled “Chronicles of the Wandering Star” and there you are.
Awesome….just skimmed through the first chapter…good fun!
Thanks for the link….will the bandwidth handle BooTribbers????
Glad you liked what you saw. As for bandwidth: I can’t swear to it for Cosmic, since I don’t know how much Ed’s got running, but he’s expressed an interest in getting as many readers as possible, so that’s up to him. The InterActions website had better be able to handle it. The hope for the curriculum is that it will be used by several tens of thousands of students in the first year and scale on up from there. Whether that’ll happen… Who knows. But the grant that funded it was a biggie.
Haven’t got time to browse it yet, but will. Thanks.
You’re welcome. I hope you enjoy it.
I’m a big Fantasy and SciFi reader, although my wife puts me to shame. I’ll download this and take it home with me for the weekend, KMc. Thank you!
You’re welcome. It’s my pleasure. Hope you enjoy it.
Let me hazard a guess… a fan particularly of Phil Dick?
Nifty! I will look at it this weekend. I’m a big fantasy/science fiction fan.
Cool. I hope you enjoy it.
BTW, if anyone really doesn’t want to sign up for Cosmic SF without sampling it first, drop me an email at my first name at kellymccullough.com and I’ll send the PDF of issue #4 along. It’s about 200k and I’ll wait and send it once to all takers some time tomorrow.
These are so cool, Kelly, thank you! I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the story over the weekend. May I show the curriculum to my daughter’s middle school science teacher? She is a groovy gal and would be interested I think.
I’m glad you like them. Please feel free to show them to anyone. The whole purpose of the project is to disseminate the curriculum as far and wide as possible in hopes of improving science learning.
I am just about to register now… it is terrible, I know, but SF&F is the only literature I consume these days. Well, that and sometimes the odd 18th or 19th century classic tome and, sometimes, cookbooks.
I think this might stem from the fact that I find most “serious” modern literature-makers to be self-important buffoons who couldn’t write their way out of a torn paper bag. </literature bitch>
So, that’s the long way of saying “I’m looking forward to reading your work!”
I hope you enjoy it. And as someone who makes his living in genre land you certainly won’t hear me saying anything bad about people who only read F&SF. Lit Fic has its pluses, but you won’t find me writing it, and only very rarely reading it.