(Cross-posted on Blogolepsy*.)
Never got past the first page of first book in the Foundation series? Then you will love Six-word Sci-Fi that appears on Wired.
Some excerpts:
We kissed. She melted. Mop please!
- James Patrick Kelly
Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses.
- Richard Powers
(Via BoingBoing)
Feel free to pen your petite SF masterpiece in the commentspace. (Story-lines involving an evil computer that runs on Windows Vista will be automatically disqualified.)
* Which reminds me. You are all hereby requested to "prod us into some activity" over on Blogolepsy. So sayeth zigzackly. He has also put up some lovely pictures of the Konkan coast, which he assures me, were posted only to make us all jealous.)
11 comments:
Building new Igloo. Damn ozone hole
-OR-
Lines of Americans outside Indian embassy
-OR-
Travelling? Don't forget your radiation detector
Man bites dog. Giga bytes man.
MT: The second one is my favorite :)
TR: And its tragic conclusion: "Man reformats himself."
Would love to see some more entries here. Maybe I'll just run them all on the blog over the weekend.
what u floating on, junkie? Ether, he said.
this challenge is killing me. thud.
Patrix - shades of "Twilight Zone"! Cool!
Anonymous - 8 words, but so what? :)
TR: that wasn't "Big Blue", I suppose? Bring it on, man.
i'll get drunk and try tonight.
TR: hey, that's 6 words too!
it was a story. took wing.
For sale: Half a bed. Used.
The Joss Whedon one on there, btw ("Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.") is just brilliant.
Salil: tragi-comic, eh? (unlike Hemingway's "For sale: baby shoes. Never used", which is just heart-rending) Yeah, Whedon's story is super creepy :)
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