Science Fantasy Romance 7 - Cosmast Rhyt

Cosmast Rhyt 

SF007

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A Future Darkly

Blurb

When a far-future academic wants to find a long-lost asteroid, who better to hire than a bored space wanderer looking for a way to pass his longevity? The journey proves to be just as surprising as the destination in this darkly humorous science fiction short story

Memories

before reading

I wrote the opening line of this story in a windowless hotel room, then I sat pondering it for a long, long time before I set is aside and went to the hotel bar. A month or so later, I was in a mood, and so I sat down and wrote the story. I recall that it’s pretty gloomy, ironic...but with an odd feeling of hope. Let’s see what happened.

Review

after reading

I love this line: “Very good, then. I will know everything, S will do everything, and Rhyt: you, as usual, will go everywhere.”. This story is erudite science fiction, and fantastic. This is one of my new favorites, with some great characters and a fun fake ‘academic paper’ in there, too. I used a lot of political scientist brain on that one. I really suggest you read this one; it’s the exemplar of the Science Fiction point of the Science Fantasy Romance triangle.

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Sharia & The Gays

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Science Fantasy Romance 6 - Time Travel...Laterally!

Time Travel...Laterally!

SF006

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Blurb

A hot summer day, a group of bored teenagers, and a time machine that runs on pure bull turns out to be the recipe for a disastrous trip past the future. If by “disastrous trip”, you mean “Adventure!”

Memories

before reading

I wrote this story while I was testing a voice recognition software, but when the software turned out to be horrible, I transcribed it myself. Once I’d left out all the ums and ers, and cleaned up a few sentences that got lost in the rambles, it was surprisingly clean. I only remember adding in one paragraph, in re: the ‘time travel spindle’, because I’m bad at describing machinery impromptu. So, if you want to read how I talk when I’m just bullsh*tting my way through a story, here’s your chance...and mine!

Review

after reading

I like how the 16-year-old protagonist and first-person viewpoint character is actually writing the story, and how I added a lot of little ‘writer-touches’ in to reflect his character voice. There’s some good stuff in here, and this counts as YA. One part suffers from a mild case of Info-Dump fever, though. Sorry about that. All in all, though, it’s a solid character-based story, and that’s Science Fantasy Romance.

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Cosmast Rhyt 

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