11.17.06

Ember

Posted in Uncategorized at 6:32 pm by DMZ

Free fiction! New short story!

Ember

It’s got aliens! Cloning! Crime! Music! Street fighting! It’s sci-fi! Woo-hoo!

In Ember, a week in the struggle of the hero and the greatest flamenco singer in a Barcelona turned into a tourist attraction for aliens who enjoy the Spanish Civil War.

This hasn’t gone out for publication yet, and there are two sections I’d like to improve/remove/rework (feel free to guess what they are and send me thoughts).

3 Comments »

  1. Anonymous said,

    November 18, 2006 at 9:56 am

    my guesses:

    the soldier paragraph and the opera conversion with enrico

  2. Hate Life, Will Travel » Yay for rejection said,

    May 5, 2007 at 12:58 pm

    [...] got a quite nice rejection note from Asimov’s for Ember (link to early version). It only took many submissions to get something beyond a form [...]

  3. Hate Life, Will Travel » Clarion submissions said,

    May 20, 2007 at 2:44 pm

    [...] to Clarion with were: “Conversations With and About My Electric Toothbrush” and “Ember“. Both were a couple drafts off the early versions posted here, but not all that [...]

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