So, this is an open call among my various Macroscope readers.
Given all of my belly-aching recently about the general weakness of sci-fi films these days due to their lack of sci-fi lit foreknowledge, I've decided to put my money where my mouth is. I've had a bunch of different sci-fi story ideas bouncing around in my head, and I think I'm just going to write one of them as a short story.
Who wants to join me?
In other words, I'd like to challenge my other screenwriting fellows out there (and, frankly, anyone else wo wants to jump on board), to write a sci-fi short story between now and, say, the start of Comic-Con 2010 on July 22nd, 2010.
And by "sci-fi" I mean based on some sort of actual science speculation or imagination. And that's a really broad term. I mean, technically speaking "Flowers for Algernon" is sci-fi.
And by "short" I mean less than 7500 words (the limit to be eligible for the Nebula Awards, I might add).
I'd love to get a head count to see who's in, and then we'll figure out what sort of forum or format we want to share these stories with the public (maybe some sort of blog governed under a creative commons license, perhaps).
And feel free to share this with whomever else you like that you think would be up for the challenge. The more the merrier.
So, show of hands?
