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August 31, 2010 issue of Electric Spec now available!
Nano goes Macro is out with Lesley's story "My room". Read more about it at Nanotechnology Now including "The editors have compiled a beautifully diverse and timely collection on the social and cultural aspects of nano-scale science and engineering."
Lesley's story "Footsteps of Fear" wins Honorable Mention in first 2010 quarter of the Writers of the Future contest. Read about it on the WOTF blog. Read it as a featured story.
On February 25, 2010 Lesley interviewed at examiner.com about Electric Spec.
Lesley mentioned in Pittsburgh Tribune article: "Mystery Solver" by Shirley McMarlin on January 18, 2010. (Scroll down.)
Lesley discussed "The Science of Science Fiction", "The Future of Energy: Star Trek or Stone Age?", "Hollywood vs. Science" in Denver at Mile Hi Con Oct 23-25, 2009.
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Featured Novel:
Multiple Possibilities
A physicist masters quantum possibilities and makes all her dreams come true.
Reality splits into two possibilities for physicist Lauren Martin on the first day of her fabulous new professor job. One Lauren is flattened by a car and one Lauren is left standing on the side of the road. Lauren discovers she can use quantum mechanics to pick possibilities and affect reality. Things only get more complicated from there as Lauren's students use quantum mechanical possibilities to commit crimes and people start dying. Lauren steps up and risks her life, her relationship with a smokin' hot colleague, and incidentally, reality itself, to stop the quantum criminals. In the end, Lauren foils the bad guys and the positive possibilities are endless...
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Featured Story:
Decay Signals
What if Grand Unified Theories were true?
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ezine: ElectricSpec
Shockingly good short works of science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre.
Now available: August 31,2010 issue.
Also check out the Electric Spec Editor Blog!
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Anything Would be Worth It in Analog Science Fiction and Fact December 2007 A physicist uses quantum mechanics to save her family. |
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Image from Astronomy Picture of the Day
Blog Entries
Le Guin on Art and Fiction
The Bechdel Test
A Community of Writers
Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite
Writing Blunders to Avoid
getting critique is tough
Why Authors Succeed
Back to Basics
Write Your Story
Fiction: Insight into Evolution?
Break Into Writing - Wrapup
Break Into Writing - Part II
How Do Writers Break In?
How Write an Outstanding Story
Spec Fic Tools VII: a Paradigm
Spec Fic Tools VI : Plot
Spec Fic Tools V : Characterization
Spec Fic Tools IV: Speculative elements
Spec Fic Tools III: Humor
Spec Fic Tools II: Voice
Spec Fic Tools I: World-building
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