Presentations and upcoming events ...
06 October 2020
VIRTUAL Meeting starting at 7pm
Whether based on well-established folklore, public domain works, or even the biggest mass media franchises of today, thousands of books have been created by authors set in realms that they themselves did not originally create. Shared worlds are popular, prevalent, and persistent.
But what do authors have to gain by writing in a shared universe or a borrowed landscape? What are its artistic merits? Its constraints? Commercial benefits and pitfalls? And what do you have to keep in mind to write successfully in them?
Join the R-SPEC Team and guest panelist, Nick DiChario, as we delve into all of these questions and more. Please bring an example of a favorite shared universe to share and join in the discussion!
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MEETING INFO
Banner design by Alan Vincent Michaels
Reviews ...
01 June 2020
Exogenesis: Hybrid Humans: A Scientific History of Extraterrestrial Genetic Manipulation
by Bruce R. Fenton and Daniella Fenton
Ebook released on 01 June 2020 on Apple Books, Amazon Kindle, and other platforms.
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Recently published ...
19 October 2019
Seeds
I'm proud to announce my speculative fiction poem, Seeds, won Third Place in the SFPA’s 2019 POETRY CONTEST “Dwarf Poem Category” (<= 10 lines).
SFPA'S blind-entry contest had three categories, 560 entries, and 10 finalists from around the world!
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28 August 2019
We're Not Alone Anymore (< 1,000 word short story)
Always Faithful, Always Loyal
Nor Even the Small Fish
We Eat
I'm delighted to announce that four of my recent works are now available in
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Design by Scott W. Williams
In the news ...
19 August 2019
Imagining Rochester in 2034 and beyond
Esther Arnold wrote this great Rochester Beacon article that highlights several recent accomplishments of the ROCHESTER SPECULATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION, and its support for Rochester-area speculative fiction writers and readers.
I also have some of my R-SPEC logo and artwork designs noted in the article, too.
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R-SPEC logo and banner design by Alan Vincent Michaels
Selected poems ...
Seeds
Third Place “Dwarf Poem Category” winner in the SFPA’s 2019 POETRY CONTEST (19 October 2019).
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Ode to Nikola Tesla
A poem in celebration of NIKOLA TESLA.
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My "Brick for Nik," located on the grounds of the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe (Shoreham, New York), contains an engraved line from the poem's first stanza. (
Always Faithful, Always Loyal
Nor Even the Small Fish
We Eat
Three, long-form prose poems included in the A FLASH OF DARK: VOLUME 3 anthology (28 August 2019).
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To the Stars! (A Hopeful Autobiography in Five Present-Tense Stanzas)
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Requiem Æternam
Skipping Stone (Last transmission from an alternative Apollo 13 crew)
STAR*LINE - September/December 2010 (#33.5/6) print/ebook editions
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STAR*LINE (33.5/6) cover image courtesy of STAR*LINE
Cover art ©2010 by Garret Dechellis
Stepping Stone Lost
SCIFAIKUEST - August 2010 (Vol. 8, No. 1) print edition
Scifaikuest (Vol. 8, No. 1) cover image courtesy of Sam's Dot Publishing
Cover art ©2010 by Denny Marshall
Here are some cool links ...
STAR*LINE home page ➤ LEARN MORE
scifaikuest guidelines page ➤ LEARN MORE
scifaiku ➤ LEARN MORE
senryu ➤ LEARN MORE
Selected short stories ...
We're Not Alone Anymore
Flash fiction included in the A FLASH OF DARK: VOLUME 3 anthology (28 August 2019).
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Love Lost
A 100-word, microfiction included on the THE FUTURE OF LITERARY FORMS: FLASH FICTION, HYPERFICTION, AND VIRTUAL WORLDS
Fads (or Why Jerry Loathes the Aliens)
My story in the 2034: WRITING ROCHESTER'S FUTURES anthology (31 July 2010 print, ebook, online editions) is available only online.
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Learn more about 2034: WRITING ROCHESTER'S FUTURES, the first speculative fiction anthology from
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Selected short bits & interesting pieces ...
Roppatucha Greenberg's CREATURES GIVE ADVICE series
My Twitter-submitted questions and Ms. Greenberg's responses and custom
doodles are included in this (currently) two-book series.
CREATURES GIVE ADVICE
Amazon Digital Services LLC (20 March 2019, Kindle, print paperback editions)
CREATURES GIVE ADVICE AGAIN (and it's warmer now)
Amazon Digital Services LLC (21 June 2019, Kindle, print paperback editions)
Treasures from the time vaults ...
1993
I've received numerous inquiries about my first publication in a major magazine. Although I have earlier works published in high school and college literary journals, few people will likely ever read them.
I won a content sponsored by Robert Silverberg and Kim Mohan that was published in the February 1993 issue of AMAZING STORIES. In Robert Silverberg's "Reflections" column, you will find several of my time-traveling camera ideas that caught their attention and gave me my first 15 microseconds of science fiction fame.
Cover art ©1993 by Laura and John Lakey
1990
Thank you for the inquiries and the encouragement, but THE DREAM LIVES ON! THE UNOFFICIAL COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO MUSIC OF TANGERINE DREAM (01 May 1990) remains out of print.
I have no plans to update the content and release a new edition. Edgar Froese and Tangerine Dream, not to mention the band's numerous alumni, have released far too many recordings in the intervening years for me to successfuly revise the guide.
Book and cover art ©1990 by Alan Vincent Michaels
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