This week, I’m in the mood for science fiction. Care to play around with some sci-fi elements in your piece? It’ll be fun, I promise.
Simon Stålenhag, Septemberjägare, from Invasive Species series, 2013. Digital painting. www.simonstalenhag.se
Melvin Sokolsky, Untitled, from Harper’s Bazaar “Bubble” Spring Collection, Paris, 1963. Photograph.www.sokolsky.com
Arthur Radebaugh. Illustration from his syndicated Sunday comic strip Closer Than We Think, December 9, 1962.
P.S. Are you a sci-fi fan living in the Twin Cities? Then you should be at Club Jäger every Tuesday night for JägerCon Sci-Fi Tuesdays, hosted by Rob Callahan. Yessirree.
In case you missed it, we’re in the middle of publishing the three winning stories from Worth Your Salt: A Fiction Contest. Friday’s story, “And the World Fell Asleep” by Eric Martell, was a dystopian farewell. This coming Friday’s story, “Surrogate” by Aleksander Sievert, is of a slightly different nature — one which I will only hint at today. While you wait, how about you write some words inspired by the three hints below?
Simon Stålenhag, Bruksmaskiner, Brobysund, 2011. Digital painting using Wacom tablet and pen. www.simonstalenhag.se
Albert Robida, Le Sortie de l’opéra en l’an 2000 (Leaving the Opera In the Year 2000), circa 1882. Lithograph, hand-colored. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
Paul Guinan, Untitled, circa 2010. Digital illustration. www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate
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P.S. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, March 19th for Worth Your Salt: A Reading, presented by Red Sofa Books and Hazel & Wren!
Come for an evening of diverse readings (including our Worth Your Salt contest winners!), music and great beer to celebrate the launch of Jeff Smieding’s ebook serial, And In Their Passing, A Darkness: The Salt Machine.
