Comments on: Present-day SF stories http://deannahoak.com/2007/07/17/present-day-sf-stories/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=present-day-sf-stories SF/F Copyeditor Fri, 11 May 2012 10:50:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Harold http://deannahoak.com/2007/07/17/present-day-sf-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-76324 Harold Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:07:22 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/2007/07/17/present-day-sf-stories/#comment-76324 I have nothing to add, but I didn't know you had a MySpace page! You've mentioned it several times, I now see. I will send you a friend request (from D.B. Echo) as soon as I leave here. It may just consist of the words "wow u r sexy", so if you get a message like that, you'll know it was me. I have nothing to add, but I didn’t know you had a MySpace page! You’ve mentioned it several times, I now see. I will send you a friend request (from D.B. Echo) as soon as I leave here. It may just consist of the words “wow u r sexy”, so if you get a message like that, you’ll know it was me.

]]> By: --E http://deannahoak.com/2007/07/17/present-day-sf-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-76275 --E Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:19:06 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/2007/07/17/present-day-sf-stories/#comment-76275 Me! Me! Shameless self-pimpery! Buy the August issue of <i>Realms of Fantasy</i> for a short story set in modern day and yes, with a bit of a twist! <em>Ahem. Oh my. I have lost all sense of perspective, haven't I.</em> Me! Me! Shameless self-pimpery! Buy the August issue of Realms of Fantasy for a short story set in modern day and yes, with a bit of a twist!

Ahem. Oh my. I have lost all sense of perspective, haven’t I.

]]> By: Ian Randal Strock http://deannahoak.com/2007/07/17/present-day-sf-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-76274 Ian Randal Strock Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:18:43 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/2007/07/17/present-day-sf-stories/#comment-76274 Many of the stories Stan publishes as "Probability Zero"s, in addition to being very short, have a twist, and are often set in the present day (or some time very close). The self-revelation is that I've sold him ten PZs myself, and currently have one in inventory there. So check out my stuff; probably half of them fit the bill you're looking for. Many of the stories Stan publishes as “Probability Zero”s, in addition to being very short, have a twist, and are often set in the present day (or some time very close).

The self-revelation is that I’ve sold him ten PZs myself, and currently have one in inventory there. So check out my stuff; probably half of them fit the bill you’re looking for.

]]> By: Liz DeJesus http://deannahoak.com/2007/07/17/present-day-sf-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-76271 Liz DeJesus Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:08:12 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/2007/07/17/present-day-sf-stories/#comment-76271 You can check out Humanitie's Edge by Tamara Wilhite. She's a good friend of mine and she wrote an amazing book of short stories. Also anything by Jim Butcher (but it's not sci fi it's fantasy but still really good) You can check out Humanitie’s Edge by Tamara Wilhite. She’s a good friend of mine and she wrote an amazing book of short stories.

Also anything by Jim Butcher (but it’s not sci fi it’s fantasy but still really good)

]]> By: Laura Anne http://deannahoak.com/2007/07/17/present-day-sf-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-76270 Laura Anne Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:58:32 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/2007/07/17/present-day-sf-stories/#comment-76270 Not quite what was specified but close enough to maybe qualify -- the anthology REVISIONS (edited by Julie Czerneda, DAW). Alternate history/alternate futures based on tweaks in our scientific knowledge. Definite twists, there! (ObDisc: my story "Site Fourteen" is in this anthology) Not quite what was specified but close enough to maybe qualify — the anthology REVISIONS (edited by Julie Czerneda, DAW). Alternate history/alternate futures based on tweaks in our scientific knowledge. Definite twists, there!

(ObDisc: my story “Site Fourteen” is in this anthology)

]]> By: Lisa Mantchev http://deannahoak.com/2007/07/17/present-day-sf-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-76269 Lisa Mantchev Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:49:33 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/2007/07/17/present-day-sf-stories/#comment-76269 Most of the stories at Futurismic (http://futurismic.com/category/fiction/) are set in present day/immediate future and they have the double bonus of being free and online for immediate reading. In the interest of full disclosure, they've published me, but more importantly people like Will McCarthy, Carrie Vaughn, Jay Lake and others! Most of the stories at Futurismic (http://futurismic.com/category/fiction/) are set in present day/immediate future and they have the double bonus of being free and online for immediate reading.

In the interest of full disclosure, they’ve published me, but more importantly people like Will McCarthy, Carrie Vaughn, Jay Lake and others!

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