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Voici, après Eric Frank Russell et James H. Schmitz, un autre grand nom de l'Age …
C’est un ami (décédé il y a quelques années après une longue maladie) qui avait traduit le roman en français. Je souhaite le lire principalement pour cette raison sentimentale.
#PAL #SF #ScienceFiction #traduction #LesterDelRey #BookWyrm #BookWyrmFR
Premier roman de notre maison d’édition, Hope a créé la surprise par son succès auprès …
Merci à @Airr@mastodon.tetaneutral.net pour ce conseil de lecture !
#SF #ScienceFiction #féminisme #livre #lecture #littérature #PAL #BookWyrm
C’est un #spaceopera #SF au rythme effréné. Je suis étonnée qu’il n’ait pas été adapté au cinéma. Si la traduction indique clairement qu’il a vieilli (faire la connaissance d’UN conseiller pour s’apercevoir que c’est une femme, ça fait drôle)
(comment on Une Forme De Guerre)
It's 3AM, I'm on-call, and my phone is ringing.
There's a burst of violet light from next to me. It arcs over me, and impacts against the magic circle around my phone.
I pick up the phone and answer "Hang on a tick." I give my sleeping wife a small nudge, and she mutters something in Latin, and rolls over.
"Toby here. What's broken?" I resume on the phone.
"Hi Toby, Anthea from the call centre. We've got an alert on Sirius12 - system load above predicted limits for over two hours."
"Hi Anthea. That should be OK, we set up some new processing rules, and it will take a couple of nights for the system to recognise the change. If you get the alert tomorrow, don't call, but if it happens after Wednesday, do call."
"OK, Toby. I'll make a note in the Tzzbrzzhgga Nil hzzthrg …
It's 3AM, I'm on-call, and my phone is ringing.
There's a burst of violet light from next to me. It arcs over me, and impacts against the magic circle around my phone.
I pick up the phone and answer "Hang on a tick." I give my sleeping wife a small nudge, and she mutters something in Latin, and rolls over.
"Toby here. What's broken?" I resume on the phone.
"Hi Toby, Anthea from the call centre. We've got an alert on Sirius12 - system load above predicted limits for over two hours."
"Hi Anthea. That should be OK, we set up some new processing rules, and it will take a couple of nights for the system to recognise the change. If you get the alert tomorrow, don't call, but if it happens after Wednesday, do call."
"OK, Toby. I'll make a note in the Tzzbrzzhgga Nil hzzthrg Grrzght!"
I roll back, and nudge my wife again. When she's asleep her magics sometimes get a bit feisty, and they interfere with the 4G signal. She turns over again.
"Are you still there Anthea?"
"Yes, what happened, I started hearing the strangest voices."
"You were probably hearing Charlotte's dream. Don't listen, and don't worry about it."
"Charlotte? Dream?"
"Yeah, look up the wiki entry about calling me. It's all in there."
I should know, after I cleared it with Charlie, I put it in there. There was a pause, presumably while she read the entry. "A witch??"
"Yep, and if the mobile gets too close when she's dreaming it picks up bits of it. Only her dreams are more like astral interventions, and you really don't want to listen in to those. There can be unpleasant side effects - for you."
"Are you having me on?"
"No, you can check in with my boss and HR. They know."
"..."
"Give me a call if there are any other problems. Good night Anthea."
I hung up, and cuddled in to Charlie, and tried to go back to sleep.
I'm a sysadmin. I manage a corporation's servers along with a team of eight. And my wife is a powerful witch. Really powerful. So all the electronics around the house are in magic circles to protect them from when she's asleep. I went through five phones (three mobile and two landline) before we got that sorted.
She's sort of a magical troubleshooter. That's how we met. She was dealing with a haunted server room. I was managing the servers. I really did have a ghost in my machine. She laughed at my jokes, and I didn't laugh at her work.
#SF #SFF #UrbanFantasy #microfiction #Tootfic #IAmWriting #CharlieAndToby
This is a must read if you write short stories and hope to get published in these legacy magazines:
Asimov’s Science Fiction
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
They have been acquired by a new company that uses very unfavorable contracts, as Writer Beware explains:
https://writerbeware.blog/2025/07/25/contract-controversy-and-change-at-must-read-magazines/
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Proud to have contributed to this expose, first piece published in the Guardian today. Entire series in the follow up post.
#nuclear #ColdWar #SF @sts @histodons
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/25/san-francisco-navy-lab-human-radiation
My old #introduction got lost somewhere
German, he/him, 40s, living in Poland (#lodz). I work in IT and do some geeky computer stuff on the side (#usenet, #uucp, #irc)
My main hobby are #ttrpgs (#osr #dnd, #traveller, #shadowrun) and similar (#minipainting, #boardgames) but I also do writing and reading (#fantasy, #sf) and #cooking
I will be complaining about #kids, #cats, lack of #coffee, and the general state of the world
I do get weirdly obsessed with topics sometimes. But don't we all?
My old #introduction got lost somewhere
German, he/him, 40s, living in Poland (#lodz). I work in IT and do some geeky computer stuff on the side (#usenet, #uucp, #irc)
My main hobby are #ttrpgs (#osr #dnd, #traveller, #shadowrun) and similar (#minipainting, #boardgames) but I also do writing and reading (#fantasy, #sf) and #cooking
I will be complaining about #kids, #cats, lack of #coffee, and the general state of the world
I do get weirdly obsessed with topics sometimes. But don't we all?
Virgil Finlay illustrates the Ernest Hill story ‘On the Edge of the Galaxy’ from IF Science Fiction, October 1966. #FinlayFriday
#VirgilFinlay #ErnestHill #ScienceFiction #Illustration #Pulps #SF #SFF @sciencefiction
“Well?” he said, when we reached the bank.
“We are somewhere about the center of him,” she said. “I’ll call him up.” She stirred the ooze with her foot and called “Rastus!”
The effect was, to the uninitiated, quite remarkable.
