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August 14, 2012
August Contest!
August Contest
During the month of August, read the preview for “An Alien Collective” on Amazon (www.amazon.com/dp/B0087U1NN8) and answer the following question:
“What name has Cyn given the location where they woke up?”
Send your answer to hyperlight@hyperwarp.com
and someone will win the following prize collection (US and Canada only):
T-shirt, action figures, Hallmark ornament, mug, etc.
Quotation – August 14, 2012
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time.
Leonard Bernstein
August 6, 2012
Quotation – August 6, 2012
We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
Mark Twain
SciFaiku Review: SciFaiku #6 – The Guardian of Forever
SciFaiku (Science Fiction haiku) is a form of poetry inspired by Japanese Haiku.
SciFaiku poems are short, minimalistic, poems about science and science fiction.
The poems are usually three lines and around 17 syllables.
Join me in exploring this field of poetry. Send your scifaiku to hyperlight@hyperwarp.com and I will feature them here. (subject: Scifaiku)
#6 – The Guardian of Forever
On planet Gateway
the Guardian of Forever
allows time travel
via Wikipedia:
August 5, 2012
Quotation – August 5, 2012
When you are dealing with the blackest side of the human soul, you have to have someone who has performed heroically to balance that out. You have to have a hero.
Ann Rule
August 4, 2012
Quotation – August 4, 2012
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
Mark Twain
August 2, 2012
Quotation – August 2, 2012
I write in a confessional way, because to me it’s so exciting and fun. There’s nothing funnier on earth than our humanness and our monkeyness. There’s nothing more touching, and it’s what I love to come upon when I’m reading; someone who’s gotten really down and dirty, and they’re taking the dross of life and doing alchemy, turning it into magic, tenderness and compassion and hilarity. So I tell my students that if they really love something, pay attention to it. Try to write something that they would love to come upon.
Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott
August 1, 2012
August Contest!
August Contest
During the month of August, read the preview for “An Alien Collective” on Amazon (www.amazon.com/dp/B0087U1NN8) and answer the following question:
“What name has Cyn given the location where they woke up?”
Send your answer to hyperlight@hyperwarp.com
and someone will win the following prize collection (US and Canada only):
T-shirt, action figures, Hallmark ornament, mug, etc.
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Colonel Esseline Robinson, the Planetary Police Chief of Ascendant, was on administrative leave helping her niece, Ariana, adjust to living with Essie after the deaths of Ari’s mother and father…Essie’s sister and brother-in-law.
The adjustment period was interrupted when Ari discovered a body at the archaeology lab where she worked.
Essie was now back on the job as Planetary Police Chief, and dealing with the emotions of her teenaged niece, her gallivanting parents, her detective partner, and sundry office politics.
Throw in some stolen artifacts that belonged to the previous inhabitants, an ex-husband, numerous murders, and some aliens determined to cause havoc with the human civilizations on ten planets, and you have a recipe for an exciting science fiction thriller.
Quotation – August 1, 2012
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
