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07-05-2011, 08:46 AM | #18 | |
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Personally, I think Backlash is the best in the book. Although the next collection's going to be even better. "In the Halls of the Sky-Palace" and "Movement" are both at least as strong as Backlash, and I've got rights reversion on both of them by now. |
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Gosh, ain't the internets great? So cool to interact with actual published authors.
Gotta love tech sometimes |
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08-11-2011, 11:04 AM | #21 |
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I'm not sure where to post this, so I'll just put it here.
I'm writing a short story set at the Large Hadron Collider. Do we have anyone on MR who's been on-site at the Collider, or has had a research project run there? I'd love to swap a couple of PMs and make sure I've got my facts straight... |
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08-12-2011, 04:21 AM | #23 |
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Interesting. I'll check it out.
Incidentally, is this him? (And if so, is he nice? I'm thinking I might just call him up and see if he can recommend a good information source...) |
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Hi Nancy,
I am Dwayne Ladd a writer, I write fantasy and syfy also. |
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I always thought he was both nice and informative. But I wasn't a physics major..... |
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Well, the good news is I found a theoretical physicist on another forum, so I won't have to cold-call John Cramer. (I'm sure he's nice. I just hate dropping in to ask people for information out of the blue.)
The bad news is that the details in my work-in-progress are way (WAY!) off base. Turns out, the LHC doesn't allow for small, independent research groups, so I've now got to somehow fit my protagonists and their jaw-dropping research results into one of the multinational research projects currently underway at CERN. And I've got to explain, disambiguate and justify all of that succintly enough to keep it from overpowering everything else in a 2000-word story. See? This is why I generally stick to distant planets and alternate realities. It's so much easier to just make stuff up... |
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lol...! Well, you could always up the word count, Nancy.
From wikipedia: "...Other definitions place the maximum word count at anywhere from 7,000 to 9,000 words...." |
08-14-2011, 10:22 AM | #28 |
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Actually, it's technically overlength as it is. It was supposed to be flash fiction and clock in at 1000 words. I'm not sure how pleased the editor will be at the current length, honestly.
Of course, I could always expand this one and write a different flash piece to fulfill my commitments. But I don't really feel like starting over from scratch. |
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