Here's another panel discussion from GenCon: The 75th Anniversary of the First Soviet Nuclear Test ( Read more... )

Sarah Hoyt finally was able to get her vignette challenge up, after computer trouble on the road. My effort is a moment of culture shock from a surprising angle.

This week's Odd Prompts writing challenge at More Odds than Ends was from Padre: Another day, another disaster.

This was pretty open-ended -- and given that we got a one-to-one swap of our prompts -- quite a match with my own, Well, there go my plans for the day…So my first task was to decide what 'verse to even write in -- and since I was busy ( Read more... )

There's a new vignette challenge up at Sarah Hoyt's blog. My effort is from the Chaffee Artilect 'verse, during the climax of "NPC's," as Roger is trying to get Sierra out of a bad situation.

marycatelli has a new vignette challenge over at her Dreamwidth blog. My response is from the Grissom Timeline, as Grigory Semyonov lays the groundwork for the coup ( Read more... )

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The vignette challenge on Sarah Hoyt's blog is finally up. My effort is from the Grissom timeline, as Anastasia Burinskaya explores Elmswood.

This week's Odd Prompts writing challenge at More Odds than Ends was from Becky Jones: The crowd surged forward.

My first thought was This feels like a prelude to a crowd panicGiven that I'm working mostly in the Grissom timeline, my first thought was the one on Mamayev Hill, which set off the "Stalingrad Firestorm," the riots that marked the ( Read more... )

This week's Odd Prompts writing challenge at More Odds than Ends was from Becky Jones: It was all frantic and frenetic.That sounded like an emergency situation, which made me think of "Breaking Strain" and the ongoing saga of the failure cascade at the Soviet moonbase. Given that we're dealing with Russians (and one Georgian), it's apt to be not ( Read more... )

This evening I was reading the latest digest from a Slavic language/linguistics list I'm subscribed to and saw a posting about an opportunity to work as a cook for a Russian-language "cultural village" somewhere in Minnesota. It's apparently an intensive language/cultural immersion experience, perhaps similar to the summer language schools at ( Read more... )