Occasionally I write a post that isn’t meant to make one think. This is one of them. I’m just advertising my first attempt at online publishing. About a year ago I wrote two short stories for my creative writing class. The first short story, Sagan’s Nightmare, was a huge gamble. On the one hand we had been told for once to write anything we wanted provided it was fiction, on the other hand the class was mainly composed of arts and literature students. I was therefore worried my work wouldn’t really appeal to most of the other students. It turned out to be a great success. A lot of the work by my fellow students was also absolutely brilliant. There was talk of getting an anthology published. This never happened which is why I finally took matters into my own hands. Voila!
So here are my two short stories from Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com. Hopefully I’ll get some feedback at some point soon.
In other news, I have achieved my goal of getting a TEDconversation debate into the featured list. This was my 4th or 5th attempt. It happened sometime after TED owner Chris Anderson himself commented in my thread! Those were exciting times. The debate “there is no such thing as free will” is still up (but sadly closed now): http://www.ted.com/conversations/1107/there_is_no_such_thing_as_free.html
240 comments. A lot of passion and strong opinions. It was an interesting experience. I haven’t had any new topic ideas yet, but it’ll come to me (probably when I’ve got work to do, as always…)
28th of June 2011 update:
The short story book I advertise on this post is no longer available. Stay tuned for a bigger short-story collection coming soon (I’ve got to write them first).
Check out: http://shortscifi.wordpress.com
