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He left her sitting in snow until a stranger collected her. She had to be delivered to the hospital instead.

Read “Thursday on Bus 26” by Sandra Soli.

Jon tried to organize the facts: He and Toku had slept for about two thousand years, longer than usual. Instigator had established that the little planet had experienced a massive radioactive flare, consistent with the people nuking the hell out of themselves. And afterwards, they’d carried on broadcasting electromagnetic representations of mating or choosing a leader.

Read “The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model” by Charlie Jane Anders.

I have a tattoo based on this book.

Check out Asteroid at xkcd: a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

Robert A. Heinlein: The Tor.com Blog Symposium

This is pretty cool:

On August 17, Tor Books will publish the first half of William H. Patterson Jr.’s two-volume authorized biography of Robert A. Heinlein, Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1, 1907-1948: Learning Curve. In commemoration of this, we’ve convened a kind of online panel discussion of Heinlein and of the biography—of his work, his methods, and his legacy, and of what light the biography sheds on all of those.

self-sufficiency

This poem was originally published in My Poem Rocks * (6 July 2009).

I used words and phrases from this poem as search terms on flickr, and then selected photos from the search results (whether or not the photos had anything to do with the poem) and made the above collage.

While the above pictures in the collage, and the collage as a whole, have been used with permission under various CC licenses, this is not to be considered a collective work – reproduction of all items not explicitly under the CC license is prohibited without the expressed consent of the owner.

Source photos: “heart bokeh2″ by sure2talk ; “All Broken-Hearted” by Orin Zebest ; “Queen of Hearts Chefs” by Peter E. Lee ; “Black & White” by Ramona.Forcella ; “You left me…” by Xanetia ; “. Heart eye (L)” by Juliana Coutinho ; “Turn at your own safety” by Lori Eldridge ; “Love Heart ring” by pennydogaccessories ; “Birthday cake” by Mara ~earth light~ free potential ; and “bleeding hearts DSC_3246″ by Gregs Landscaping.

Look Away: a literary found photos project

Werepenguin

This poem was originally published in Strange Horizons * (10 March 2008).

I used words and phrases from this poem as search terms on flickr, and then selected photos from the search results (whether or not the photos had anything to do with the poem) and made the above collage.

While the above pictures in the collage, and the collage as a whole, have been used with permission under various CC licenses, this is not to be considered a collective work – reproduction of all items not explicitly under the CC license is prohibited without the expressed consent of the owner.

Source photos: “Krill” by palestrina5 ; “Mei Long / Soundly Sleeping Dragon” and “Petunia’s Ascension” by Donna Cazadd ; “The Postman” by miskan ; “woncha say goodbye, lil fella?” by sereneonion ; “cooking with the beatles” by sebastian6 ; “Eggy” by Here’s Kate ; “Welcome To The Plesuredome” by zenera.

Look Away: a literary found photos project

Time to spoil more than just the illusion.

Read “The Practical Ramifications of Interstellar Packet Loss,” a short story by William Shunn.

Jack be nimble

Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again

Read “Language” by U.S. Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin.

It occurs to me that the act of reading Catherine Cookson might conclusively prove that the woman either had a vagina or that she didn’t, that the blond woman who sat beside Jak might have been an alien, or else incontrovertibly human, but I’m not sure which. Really, I could make a case either way.

Read “Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water” by Kelly Link.