Massimo Marino's Blog: The Ramblings and the Rumblings, page 20
May 25, 2014
Sentence Writing 101 – Precision
§ Author Massimo Marino - ... A scientist envisioning Science Fiction
If this is your first stop, you’ve missed the Introduction, Decision, and Excision. Narrative is a different kind of prose. It’s not journalism, and it has to render rather than report. O Tempora, o Mores*, what is accepted today as good narrative prose is different from books and novels of the past. Flowery prose, pedantic descriptions, passive […]
May 22, 2014
Wormholes: Science and Discovery
§ Author Massimo Marino - ... A scientist envisioning Science Fiction
At the center of our galaxy there wouldn’t be a giant black hole but a wormhole connected to another part of our universe or, maybe, to another universe. It will take several years of observation made with a new infrared interferometer called Gravity, being built within the structure of the largest telescope in the Atacama […]
Finalist – Indie Excellence Award 2014
§ Author Massimo Marino - ... A scientist envisioning Science Fiction
Daimones (Daimones Trilogy) has been selected by the Jury as Finalist in Science Fiction for the Indie Excellence Award 2014 “The Indie Excellence® Winners & Finalists recognize the books that demonstrate an indefinable synergy of elements that makes for overall excellence.” LOS ANGELES, CA – In its eighth year, the National Indie Excellence Book Awards continues […]
May 21, 2014
Sentence Writing 101 – Excision
§ Author Massimo Marino - ... A scientist envisioning Science Fiction
If this is your first stop, you’ve missed the Introduction, and Decision. Narrative is a different kind of prose. It’s not journalism, and it has to render rather than report. O Tempora, o Mores*, what is accepted today as good narrative prose is different from books and novels of the past. Flowery prose, pedantic descriptions, passive […]
Every drunken man’s dream is a book
§ Author Massimo Marino - ... A scientist envisioning Science Fiction
Guest post by Anna Castle Every month or so we get another outcry against self-published fiction. Some are aimed at the Beast of Amazon, destroyer of standards and scourge of literature, like George Packer’s bitter lament in The New Yorker (“Cheap words,” February 17, 2014) or Thad McIlroy’s anxious number-crunching on his blog (“How amazon destroyed the […]
May 20, 2014
Consciousness as a State of Matter
§ Author Massimo Marino - ... A scientist envisioning Science Fiction
In Once Humans (Daimones Trilogy) an alien artifact enters the scenes: the Memnosphere. The device is a quantum computer and the fluid-like substance the device is made of is able to reproduce consciousness from all the memory tiles collected from a subject — usually deceased. The Moîrai use it to preserve the wisdom of the Wisest of the past […]
May 18, 2014
Sentence Writing 101 – Decision
§ Author Massimo Marino - ... A scientist envisioning Science Fiction
If this is your first stop, you’ve missed the Introduction. Narrative is a different kind of prose. It’s not journalism, and it has to render rather than report. O Tempora, o Mores*, what is accepted today as good narrative prose is different from books and novels of the past. Flowery prose, pedantic descriptions, passive voices that […]
Sentence Writing 101 – Introduction
§ Author Massimo Marino - ... A scientist envisioning Science Fiction
Narrative is a different kind of prose. It’s not journalism, and it has to render rather than report. O Tempora, o Mores, what is accepted today as good narrative prose is different from books and novels of the past. Flowery prose, pedantic descriptions, passive voices that were part of the accepted narrative styles of even half […]
May 16, 2014
Guide For Down-And-Dirty Hairy-Knuckled Sci-Fi Writers Part Seven
§ Author Massimo Marino - ... A scientist envisioning Science Fiction
In case you missed Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five, and Part Six. This lexicon was compiled by Mr Lewis Shiner and Mr Bruce Sterling from the work of many writers and critics over many years of genre history, and it contains buzzwords, notions and critical terms of direct use to Science Fiction workshop organized by […]
Guide For Down-And-Dirty Hairy-Knuckled Sci-Fi Writers Part Seven
May 13, 2014
Guide For Down-And-Dirty Hairy-Knuckled Sci-Fi Writers Part Six
§ Author Massimo Marino - ... A scientist envisioning Science Fiction
In case you missed Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, and Part Five. This lexicon was compiled by Mr Lewis Shiner and Mr Bruce Sterling from the work of many writers and critics over many years of genre history, and it contains buzzwords, notions and critical terms of direct use to Science Fiction workshop organized by SFWA. […]
Guide For Down-And-Dirty Hairy-Knuckled Sci-Fi Writers Part Six
