Aliens In Taos

[grrm]

When astronauts look down on Earth from orbit, they don't see borders, national boundaries, or linguistic groups; they see one world, a gorgeous blue globe spinning in space, streaked with clouds. I don't know if humanity will ever reach the stars (though I hope we will), but if we do, it won't be Americans who get there. It won't be the

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Very exciting!

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I happen to be an aspiring (part) SF-writer from a non-english speaking country. Is there any deadline to send a story to Mr Jon Williams?

How SF does the story need to be? I am thinking about translating one which is kind of on the boundary of the SF genre, but I have more core SF stories which I could also send in.

In any case, thank you, George, for stretching out a little finger towards the small ones in nowhere-land, all of us who were destined to float around like undetectable asteroids, with heads full of silly little dreams, in the great vacuum between the stars.

I will do my very best to make my small dream look big.

Re: Very exciting!

[grrm]

Please send your queries to Walter at the email in the post.

Re: Very exciting!

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Yes, will do. In any case; thank you, George.

You just made me reread Pale Blue Dot

[th0rstein]

Man oh man,

what a great post. But it made me go grab my well thumbed copy of Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan.

Ahhh... so perfect. Thank you.

[sdschaffer]

Should our species ever escape this rock and start encountering other forms of sentient life, my preferred name is Terran over Earthling or Earthman. Sounds more dignified.

Qullifer

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I really enjoyed Quillifer, and I recommend it to anyone who like fantasy-adventure stories.

MCRN

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"One united humanity"? Not if the MCRN has anything to say about that...

Re: MCRN

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Or OPA for that matter.