Vlog Part Deux: Learn with Dave

Wotcher all.

Second Vlog done! Woot!

Now with a new educational function!



Enjoy.

David

FantasyCon 2010 Blog Part I: The Vlog!

Hola chaps,

Will be getting onto you with some quality typage (such as you have come to expect from us here at the Solaris Books Blog) a little later in the day, but I decided to start with an exciting foray into Vlogging! Yes! We're totally twenty-first century here at Solaris Towers.

Or I am. Jon's catching up.



Cheers,

David

Outre Anthologies!

Wotcher all,

In a moment's distraction this morning I put the following request out in Twitterland:

Right, let's hear outre ideas for an anthology. #outreanthology

I gave a couple of examples as well:

Heartbeet, a collection of short stories about beets and beet-farmers.
Giraffe City, a noir anthology of crime stories told in Giraffe City, the fictional city built for giraffes, by giraffes, from giraffes.

And we got some replies. Thought I'd share them with you. Some of them are funny, some of them are silly, some of them could even be interesting books.

Bloodfeast, a collection of stories about black pudding (ian_sales)
The Wax Museum, an fantasy anthology where wax figures have their own world and the relationships between them. (MihaiDarkWolf)
Stories about ants. (David_Heb)
Ponytale, an anthology about girls with hangups about horse riding ;-) (pattyjansen)
Typing Pool, a collection of stories about underwater stenographers. (ian_sales)
The Moon is Made of Cheese, an anthology of recipe-based SF stories. (KaaronWarren)
Unhappily Ever After, an anthology of stories with unhappy endings. But if that's too obvious, ...And Everybody Died. The End. might be fun. (davedevereux)
x = y+1, an anthology of stories told entirely in mathematical notation. (David_Heb)
How about a follow up to Shine called Dim, an anthology of pessimistic SF? (markchitty)
A collection of stories about drunken Norse gods putting on a musical. High Skol Musical. (warpcoresf)
Sultanas of Araby, a collection stories about raisins from the Middle East. (ian_sales)
Hard Drives, a collection of stories about trips in cars with flat tyres, (ian_sales)
Out of the Frying Pan, a collection of stories about grease spatters on the cooker top (ian_sales)

If you have any ideas, comment or chuck them up on twitter with the tag.

Cheers,

David

Life Imitating Art...

Hi all,

So here's a turn-up for you. As you may or may not yet know, Jetse de Vries' upcoming anthology Shine (and here's that sexy cover by Vincent Chong again) features a story, "Twittering the Stars," by the talented Mari Ness.

"Twittering" tells the story of a group of astronauts who travel to the asteroid belt to harvest lithium and of the tragic accident that occurs while they're out there, and tracks the narrator's reaction to what happened. The twist? It's told entirely in the form of Twitter posts, or "tweets."

Now, in a classic case of life imitating art, astronaut Soichi Noguchi (@Astro_Soichi) is sending pictures from the International Space Station via Twitter. This is Mt. Kilimanjaro. Neat, huh? Check out his tweet feed for all the pictures.