C.A. Knutsen's Blog, page 3
June 11, 2015
Weeding, Reading and Writing
Doing more weeding and reading, than writing. In the back of my mind, I am working on how to finish the third book in the Janus Unfolding series. I havetried to begin that work several times and it doesn’t come. I don’t want toforce it so I’m Weeding and Reading.
April 22, 2015
“…indistinguishable from magic.”
Arthur Clarke’s quote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” is one that rises up in my consciousness as I write. Suppose we are the less advanced people (easy enough to imagine that). Then ask: What would be so advanced relative to our experience to seem like magic to us? For example.
Magic – Moving from one location to another instantly, perhaps without being seen in transit.
Magic – All children are loved, clothed, fed, sheltered and given an education, a...
April 15, 2015
Chanticleer Review of Janus Unfolding: Emergence
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Title:Janus Unfolding: Emergence Author(s): C.A. Knutsen Genre(s): Crime Thriller, Fiction, Lab Lit – Scientific Thrillers, Lab Lit/Science, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Thriller/Suspense Publisher: C.A. Knutsen (2014) Please help promote the author by liking the review at: 
AmazonAuthor’s Website In the remote town of Frazier, Washington, a house fire burns so inexplicably white-hot that the firemen are forced to retreat. There are no know...
April 12, 2015
“Mimsy Were the Borogoves”
The1943 science fiction short story MimsyWere the Borogoves by Lewis Padgettis about a toddler and his infant sibling who do things that are quite unusual. It is a storyI am reminded of this whenever I seeyoung children playing, unfetteredby ‘impossibilities’ that are so obvious to adults. It’s not so much the specific story line as the concept that there is more to our existence than can be described by our senses and the associated four dimensions.In my writing,Ipresent characters with some...
March 24, 2015
Speculative Fiction
Science Fiction?A genre title that comes closer to my writing isSpeculative Fiction. One reviewer thought of my first book as a ‘whodunit’ with a ‘dash of science fiction’. There is some ‘speculative’ science in my books. Just like faster-than-light travel which we all accept in our science fiction novels, the things I raise may seem impossible. I’m with the Queen of Hearts and Richard Feynman on the subject. I like to think of impossible things before breakfast and afterwards for that matter...
Transformative Ideas
I like the word transformative when I think about my writing. Transformative could be viewed as Creative-with-an-agenda – – conscious or unconscious. Transformation like Creation is saying that the desired result has happened. The transformation I have in mind for myself is likely a lifelong process. The transformation I have in mind for our species may take longer: Care for others, not fear others; Care for our world, not fear what might happen. In my writing, Iintroduce a change that puts ‘...
September 29, 2014
Thank You
Thank you for visiting this new site. At this point I have only added things that I knew I wanted here. More will be added as I learn more about the art of websites and as my journey encounters other interesting things.
