Posted
10:39 am
by Ken
The near future arrives this week

A few months ago I was asked to contribute a story to
a special science fiction issue of MIT's
Technology Review. The idea was that each story would reflect one of the site's regular channels: business, computing, biomedicine, etc. I chose 'Materials' because I had a small and now distant background in the subject. After some hasty thumbing through
The New Science of Strong Materials and other battered Pelicans on my shelf I thought of and discarded several ideas, and only came up with one when I turned to the site itself and came across a recent development in light-bending metamaterials. Aha! I brainstormed some ideas with
Pippa (who like
like myself remains affiliated with the Forum and sometimes hotdesks in its offices) and came up with 'The Surface of Last Scattering' - which, I'm happy to say, seems to me one of my more satisfactory stories, one that works
as a short story as well as as SF.
That story was accepted, and is
now out in
very respectable company. Copies of the anthology are available for pre-order, and hit the newstands on Tuesday 4 October, with digital editions soon to follow. (
Via.)
Labels: genomics, self-promotion, skiffy, writing
Looks good, and for 7.95 USD it seems a bargain for that much prose.
By
Todd S., at
Sunday, October 02, 2011 2:41:00 pm