She loved it, experiencing all of these pieces of fiction that were recurring characters in the background of her daily life. It was our first vacation together since my niece turned old enough to have a personality. Now? I want to go back to Disney World with my family. An adventure! Something new, something novel, something beautiful and terrible and, most of all, beyond! Her most recent book is The Blackwing War.īefore the pandemic, I would have said my Holodeck adventure was set in Pern, or Narnia, maybe even standing alone with my sword in a tulgey wood. Spangler lives in North Carolina with her husband and two completely awful dogs. Mind you, I'm getting out before the next book starts. Imagine the food, the celebratory magic, the creatures, and all that exuberant music. I might choose Catherynne Valente's Fairyland after the shadows were returned. I mean do you want a house to fall on you? Do you want a Lost Boy to stab you? Are you going to risk indigestion at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe after the chef realizes that Yelp ratings don't matter once the universe ends?ĭo your homework. Being asked to enter a world created by a holodeck is as dangerous as parsing out how to phrase a wish a genie has just offered. When Geordie pulls off his visor to become Lavar and asks, “What world would you like me to read you into?” be careful. You can find his work in print, on canvas, and on the radio at Andrew was named author of the year in 2019 by the Baltimore Faerie Faire for A Halo of Mushrooms and his first picture book, Pitter Patty Finds Another Day is scheduled to be released in 2022. This is the second time Andrew has melded minds. In short, every aspect of Wakanda as a setting reinforces and is defined by the worldview of the people. It’s the intersection of art and science impacting its look, including its architecture. A people’s history embedded into all of the traditions within it. It is a culture of stories and how they relate to one another. The great thing about it is the depth of it as a world and how it sets a great context for all sorts of interesting conversations. You should already know my answer is going to be Wakanda. ![]() He raises free range jackalopes with his wife and two sons … when they are not solving murder mysteries. Not only is he credited with inventing the question mark, he unsuccessfully tried to launch a new number between seven and eight. When not editing or writing, he is a champion curler and often impersonates Jack Bauer, but only in a French accent. He graduated college at age 14 and high school at age 16. He’s an award winning haberdasher and coined the word “acerbic”. Maurice Broaddus is an exotic dancer, trained in several forms of martial arts–often referred to as “the ghetto ninja”–and was voted the Indianapolis Dalai Lama. The pulp science fiction shared solar system is a fascinating place I've always wanted to explore, so that's what I'd program the holodeck for. You can hop between planets in gleaming finned rockets and enjoy an early 20th century idea of futuristic luxury. Every single world in this version of the solar system is not just habitable, it's also full of fascinating alien lifeforms. There are plenty of fascinating places to explore, whether it's the dying desert world of Mars with its canals and ancient ruins, the fog-shrouded jungles and misty oceans of Venus, the twilight belt of Mercury, the moons of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn and of course the asteroid belt with its floating casinos and pirate hideouts. Visit her on the web at or follow her on Twitter under decided that I'd like to program my holodeck for the solar system as it was imagined in the pulp science fiction of the 1930s and 1940s. She has been writing, since she was a teenager, and has published stories, articles and poetry in various international magazines, and is a two-time Hugo finalist for Best Fan Writer. ![]() Cora Buhlert was born and bred in Bremen, North Germany, where she still lives today – after time spent in London, Singapore, Rotterdam and Mississippi.
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