 Fantasy: December 23, 2020 Issue [#10526] |
This week: A Sci-fi Christmas Edited by: Prosperous Snow celebrating  
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke
"Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible."
Ray Bradbury
"Christmas is the day that holds all time together."
Alexander Smith
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If you do an internet search for "science fiction Christmas stories" you will find a great many. One of the classic science Fiction Christmas stories is "Santa Clause Conquers the Martians", which you have to search for separately. (At least, if you don't want to go through a long list of websites looking for it). Have you ever written a science fiction Christmas story? I don't think I have, if I did, I can't remember the name of it at this moment. So this year, join me in celebrating Christmas by writing a science fiction story or poem.
Do you need an idea? How about answering one of the following questions: (1) Is Santa Claus an elf or an alien? (2) Do Santa's reindeer fly by magic or advanced technology? (3) Does this day really hold time together? If none of those questions inspire your muse, try writing about the grand conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn--also called "the Christmas Star"--occurring on December 21. There is also the Ursid meteor shower occurring December 21 and 22. If none of these encourage you muse, try something else Christmassy.
I know that many people, including myself, are somewhat depressed this time of year. Unfortunately, the events of the past eleven months haven't helped our seasonal depression. Indeed, those events could well have deepened it. In addition, many of the "happy holiday" songs played in stores, one television, and the radio don't help. Therefore, let's try writing a science fiction story or poem about the winter holiday season. Have fun with it. The content rating for the newsletter is 18+. The word count is between 300 and 2000 word for a story and a line count of 40 for poem. The dead line is January 14, 2021.
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Excerpt: Snowflake Bull blends nicely in with snow
mooing carols to make children grin and glow
with happy thoughts of Christmas night
twinkling lights and cheeks so shiny bright
Excerpt: The ancient Crocodile dreamed a dream of the stars, but it was different this time. This time, the stars joined hands and danced on moonbeams, and their laughing voices reached out to him and tickled his ears, deep within the rugged crags of his scaly head. Crocodile opened his eyes and beheld the giant tree stump where the Banquet of Choosing would be, lit by the silvery light of a rising full moon.
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Excerpt: Over the river and through the woods,
I ran from the truth to hide.
The version of truth we learned in our youth,
our historians have lied, LIED!
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Excerpt: Somebody put a piping-hot cup of rumig on my desk before I got here and my name is handwritten in cursive on the side. Maybe it’s a sweet gesture. Or maybe—and most likely—somebody wants to burn me. Either way, now I have two cups. Should get me through the next ninety minutes. Workdays sitting two hundred feet above the ground with views of the clearest water I’ve ever seen on one side and untouched rainforest on the other are usually pretty rough. On the hardest days we can see the fish swim on our side of the breakwater and sailboats on the horizon, and the worst part? The air conditioning in the control room is perfect.
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Excerpt: “Though my grandpa’s reputation may be scarred for evermore,
there’s a drove of us descendants with an honor to restore.
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Excerpt: It pressed in on me from all sides; a malevolent oppressive force that was more than an absence of light, but a vacuum that sucked away any hope of light. It was suffocating me, and I was quite certain that if I had any lungs they would prove useless now. I was surrounded completely by nothingness that was consuming my very self from inside as well as out.
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