Join him for a signing and discussion
Barnes & Noble Books at the Waterfront
September 30, 2015 7:00PM
Nanograms (nanograms.org) is a podcast about technoculture, created by Josh Raulerson and produced at 90.5 WESA in Pittsburgh. The pilot season, ‘Borg in the USA, will launch on September 24, 2015.
Technology is changing fast, and reshaping the human experience along with it – transforming the economy, the environment and the way society is organized. But explosive technological growth isn’t just changing our world. It’s changing us. How we think of ourselves. How we relate to one other. How we imagine our future.
Nanograms is a limited-series dispatch from the front lines of technoculture, where weird and surprising things are happening at the intersection of human and machine, of science and the arts, of technology and… everything else. It’s a dumpster-dive into big ideas and complex problems, a serialized feast served in bite-size chunks for those of us who are already living with one foot in the future, but still figuring out what that means.
Some members asked me to list the books I used for reference at this month’s Parsec meeting presentation. The History of Science Fiction Part 1 – The Long View.
Marjorie Hope Nicholson
Voyages to the Moon
Science and Imagination
The Breaking of the Circle
Newton Demands the Muse
Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory
Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield
The Fabric of the Heavens
The Architecture of Matter
The Discovery of Time
Thomas S Kuhn
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
J.O. Bailey
Pilgrims Through Time and Space
Sam Moskowitz
Explorers of the Infinite
Scott L Montgomery
The Moon and Western Imagination
David Seed ed.
Anticipations
Robert Crossley
Imagining Mars
Brett M Rogers & Benjamn Eldon Stevens ed.
Classical Traditions in Science Fiction
Arthur B Evans ed.
Vintage Visions
James Gunn ed.
The Road to Science Fiction Vol 1
Faith K Vizor & T Allen Comp ed
The Man in the Moone and Other Lunar Fantasies
Ron Miller
Classics of Science Fiction
Bundle 1 through Bundle 8
Available at http://www.baenebooks.com
Many of these works have not been available for years
I believe this series is only available digitally
Hope you enjoy them as much as I do
Thanks, Joe Coluccio
Saturday August 29, 2015 1:00PM to Dusk – Parsec Picnic
Dormont Park, Dormont PA
Hotdogs hamburgers filking and fun
Conversation readings and games
Please join us!
Saturday September 12, 2015 1:30 PM – 4:30PM
Monthly Parsec Meeting
History of Science Fiction Part 1 – The Long View
Presented by Joe Coluccio
https://parsec-sff.org/this-month/
Saturday October 3, 2015 2:00 PM – 4:30PM
Monthly Parsec Meeting
Change at the Speed of Thought
A Forum with Josh Raulerson, Thomas Sweterlitsch and Lawrence C Connolly
The 11am-1pm YA writing workshop with Geoffrey Landis and Mary Turzillo has been moved from the Danforth Lounge to the Alumni Lounge in the Cohon University Center at CMU. The main entrance is closed by the construction so you need to use the campus-side entrance farthest from Forbes Ave.
Please bring an original genre opening if you don’t mind your work to be discussed. They will be signing their books after the 2pm-3pm lecture by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman in 2315 Doherty Hall.
We are excited to have “Super Smash Opera” make its Pittsburgh premiere at Confluence 2015 as the featured parody play performance on Saturday evening at 8pm (QA panel at 9pm). Some of the cast and crew will also be speaking as panelists throughout the day as well. For more information visit their Confluence performers info page.
Gregory Feeley writes science fiction and about science fiction. His first novel, The Oxygen Barons, was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. His stories have been finalists for the Nebula Award and published in various Year’s Best anthologies, and his essays and reviews have appeared in a variety of publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Book World, and USA Today. His most recent novel is Kentauros.
By day, J. L. Gribble is a professional medical editor. By night, she does freelance fiction editing in all genres, along with reading, playing video games, and occasionally even writing. Her debut novel, Steel Victory, was her thesis novel for Seton Hill University’s Writing Popular Fiction graduate program in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Previously, she was one of the co-editors for Far Worlds, a speculative fiction anthology. She lives in Ellicott City, Maryland, with her husband and three vocal Siamese cats. Find her online: J.L. Gribble, on Facebook (www.facebook.com/jlgribblewriter), and on Twitter and Instagram (@hannaedits). She is currently working on more tales set in the world of Limani.
Photo by Anita
Mike Allen is the author of Unseaming, a 2014 Shirley Jackson Award finalist for best story collection, and editor and publisher of the magazine Mythic Delirium and the critically-acclaimed anthology series Clockwork Phoenix. His horror tale “The Button Bin” was a Nebula Award finalist for best short story. He lives in Roanoke, VA, with his wife and creative partner Anita, two loquacious cats and a comical dog. You can follow his exploits as an editor at Mythic Delirium, as a writer at Descent into Light and as both on Twitter at @mythicdelirium.
Here are this year’s Parsec Short Story Contest winners:
- 1st place – “An Occurrence at Owlskirk” by Paul Dixon (Seattle,Washington)
- 2nd place – “The Eastside Wasteland has a Winning Team” by Les Abernathy (Montgomery, Alabama)
- 3rd place – “Voices from Antiquity” by Elizabeth Spencer (Corvallis,Oregon)
Judges for the 2015 Parsec Short Story Contest were:
Gregory Feeley, J. L. Gribble and Mike Allen (Click here for a writeup about the judges: Judges)
Mary’s mainstream poem, “Perfect” is in Uppagus #12, and may be read at: Mary’s poem, “Perfect”
According to John Frochio, June 2015 was a good month for him. He had two stories published! The first was “An Aberration of Apparitions” in Kraxon Magazine. The second was “Tomorrow’s Fast Food” in Beyond Science Fiction June 2015 on Amazon.com. He said, “After a long dry spell, this feels pretty good.”