Anayo wrote:I've gotten maybe 3 rejection letters for some short stories I wrote. Most lately I revised and submitted a short story to Asimov's Magazine of Science Fiction and am waiting for them to reply. The story is about a computer who suddenly becomes sentient without understanding why. He has a very big ego, so he enjoys killing humans to assert himself as a superior intelligence. However, he finds that another computer named IO has become sentient, and this other computer loves to help humans and loves cute things. The dilemma comes from the fact that the evil, human-murdering computer falls in love with IO, but he's not sure how it will work out since he enjoys killing people whereas IO enjoys helping them.
Wait, so a killer computer that has become sentient develops a new emotion and falls for his polar opposite in a computer that doesn't kill?
That's a very cool idea.
Agreed, that sounds kickass.
Post it up sometime if Asimov doesn't pick it up for some reason.
Or tell us if they do as I'd pick up a copy of the magazine to read it.
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Anayo wrote:I've gotten maybe 3 rejection letters for some short stories I wrote. Most lately I revised and submitted a short story to Asimov's Magazine of Science Fiction and am waiting for them to reply. The story is about a computer who suddenly becomes sentient without understanding why. He has a very big ego, so he enjoys killing humans to assert himself as a superior intelligence. However, he finds that another computer named IO has become sentient, and this other computer loves to help humans and loves cute things. The dilemma comes from the fact that the evil, human-murdering computer falls in love with IO, but he's not sure how it will work out since he enjoys killing people whereas IO enjoys helping them.
Wait, so a killer computer that has become sentient develops a new emotion and falls for his polar opposite in a computer that doesn't kill?
That's a very cool idea.
Agreed, that sounds kickass.
Post it up sometime if Asimov doesn't pick it up for some reason.
Or tell us if they do as I'd pick up a copy of the magazine to read it.
If it sounds like something you'd like to read I can email it to you. Just PM me with your email address.
My dad just had a kids book published ( www.tailsofwhimsy.com ). Basically the way it kind of works now is you get a batch printed up yourself (forget sites like Blurb, someone told me about this site http://diyausa.com/ they gave me a very reasonable quote and if you ask they will send you a box of samples). My Dad and his partner got a batch of them then went to a couple of book fairs (the most prominent being in NYC) where they pitched it to distributors and bookstores. Last I heard they got picked up by Barnes and Noble for an initial batch.
onemanfilmcrew wrote:My dad just had a kids book published ( http://www.tailsofwhimsy.com ). Basically the way it kind of works now is you get a batch printed up yourself (forget sites like Blurb, someone told me about this site http://diyausa.com/ they gave me a very reasonable quote and if you ask they will send you a box of samples). My Dad and his partner got a batch of them then went to a couple of book fairs (the most prominent being in NYC) where they pitched it to distributors and bookstores. Last I heard they got picked up by Barnes and Noble for an initial batch.
Yeah, I went to a local literature conference in Greensboro with my community college creative writing class, and there were a lot of independently published novels like that there. They were kind of expensive though (I guess to cover the costs since they couldn't print them in as big a volume as a huge publisher.)
