So Here's The Story
As the month of March progressed, I've debated whether to link to Viscosity Breakdown, my most recently published science-fiction short story. (It's not as if the story will vanish at the end of the month, but you'll see in a moment why March is significant.) Why was I reluctant? See, my stories have my name on them: really just my first initial and my last name. And I'm supposedly trying to remain anonymous on LiveJournal! However, as I went back and forth about this in my mind, it occurred to me that there's no practical difference between my pseudonymity as The Science Officer here on LJ versus the semi-anonymity of initial-dot-name. Anyone sufficiently dedicated could probably figure out who I am.
And since Reflection's Edge (which also published another of my stories just under a year ago) encourages writers to post blog-links to their stories, I decided I'd really better get motivated. They've even got their own LiveJournal!
(I'd actually made up my mind to put the link up before I learned of the death of Arthur C. Clarke: sorry, but you'll get no motivational "seize-the-day / strike-while-the-iron-is-hot" speeches. Total coincidence.)
A big thanks to Sharon Dodge of Reflection's Edge for not only publishing my story, but for making it the Featured Story for March 2008. After March, it'll still be in their archives here, but there won't be that awesome Featured Story link on their homepage. :-)
--From The Science Officer, also--but certainly not widely--known as S. Foster.
P.S. Why does LiveJournal's spell check routine put a red line under "LiveJournal"? It reminds me of how, at EPCOT Center in the 1980s, an AT&T speech-synthesis computer pronounced "AT&T" as "at and tee." I mean, if there's one trademark that an AT&T computer probably ought to know, it's AT&T.
And since Reflection's Edge (which also published another of my stories just under a year ago) encourages writers to post blog-links to their stories, I decided I'd really better get motivated. They've even got their own LiveJournal!
(I'd actually made up my mind to put the link up before I learned of the death of Arthur C. Clarke: sorry, but you'll get no motivational "seize-the-day / strike-while-the-iron-is-hot" speeches. Total coincidence.)
A big thanks to Sharon Dodge of Reflection's Edge for not only publishing my story, but for making it the Featured Story for March 2008. After March, it'll still be in their archives here, but there won't be that awesome Featured Story link on their homepage. :-)
--From The Science Officer, also--but certainly not widely--known as S. Foster.
P.S. Why does LiveJournal's spell check routine put a red line under "LiveJournal"? It reminds me of how, at EPCOT Center in the 1980s, an AT&T speech-synthesis computer pronounced "AT&T" as "at and tee." I mean, if there's one trademark that an AT&T computer probably ought to know, it's AT&T.