After a six-month hiatus, Flashes of Speculation is once more open for business. With the site’s re-launch comes an upgrade to WordPress 2.3 and a new, magazine-style theme, courtesy of The Design Canopy. I am looking for contributions to the site, stories that are no longer than 1000 words and fall into any or all [...]
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A Less Charming Harry Potter
Brandon Sanderson has read the final Harry Potter installment. He had, in part, this to say about it:
Initial thoughts: I liked it, as I’ve liked all of the other HP books. However, it lacked the charm of the books that occurred inside of Hogwarts. (Source: Brandon Sanderson)
That, for me, was probably the main thing about the last [...]
Oz
Quote of the Day: ”...and a hootenanny – a whole lot of hoot, and just a little bit of nanny.”
Pottered
The Harry Potter discussion continues apace – albeit at a bit of a slow pace. Go check it out and add your two cents!
Ficlets
I’ve started playing a bit with Ficlets, since I can’t do much else right now. It’s actually kind of nice to be restricted to 1024 characters or less and fun to see if, and how, anyone builds on it. My first Ficlet is an elaboration on a snippet I posted a while back. My first [...]
Dead Gods
“Our gods are dead. We have killed them, and now we don’t know what to do with the bodies.”
Brother Lucius, Hierarch, Order of Kalesto
Emberverse
I just finished reading The Protector’s War by S.M. Stirling. It’s the sequel to Dies the Fire, where the entire world’s technology is rendered useless, along with all explosives. As a result the world is tumbled into chaos as governments fall, leaving a handful to rise out of the ashes of civilization to build new [...]
Ravings
“The trees are beginning to awaken from their winter-long slumber. The sap is flowing again, and the air is fresh and new. At long last the eternal winter has broken. We can have hope again and cast off this weight which has so long settled onto us. Man can once again live as he was [...]
Callout for Flash Fiction Stories
With the Flashes of Speculation redesign complete, I’m putting the callout again for submissions. If you write science fiction, fantasy, or horror and are looking for an outlet for your writing, then please consider Flashes of Speculation. Stories need to be 1000 words or less.
FoS could use a little promotion, as well. If you’re a contributing [...]
Book Reviews: Eragon and Eldest
For the work of a 15-year-old writer, Eragon is an amazing story – I enjoyed it as much on the second read as I did on the first, perhaps even moreso. The book tells the story of a young farmboy who stumbled across a dragon egg and becomes an unlikely hero. He is forced to flee his [...]