Re: RARA-AVIS: Plots with Ray Guns

From: Brian Thornton (bthorntonwriter@gmail.com)
Date: 01 Jun 2009

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    A PWG publication credit is a signal honor indeed, Fred.

    Congratulations!

    Brian

    On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Frederick Zackel <fzackel@wcnet.org> wrote:

    >
    >
    > Please check out the Future of Crime Fiction ...
    >
    > http://www.plotswithguns.com/
    >
    > My favorite hard-boiled & / or noir / crime fiction magazine Plots with
    > Guns
    > has out a themed issue featuring "crime stories set in the year 2509"
    > called
    > "Plots with Rayguns."
    >
    > As Neil Smith described it, "It's like this: Imagine you're a crime writer
    > living in the year 2509. What sort of stories will pulp & noir slingers be
    > pumping out by then? What will crime look like? What new bad things will we
    >
    > have found to do to each other? And what will the guns look like? (And if
    > you say "There won't be any", well, you're a sadly deluded optimist, aren't
    >
    > you?) In other words, you're not writing Science Fiction,
    > but rather the world outside your window (whatever world that may be).
    >
    > Featuring marvelous creative, artistic hard-boiled work by Kyle Minor,
    > Pinckney Benedict, Garnett Elliott, Richie Narvaez, Kieran Shea, Cameron
    > Ashley, Jimmy Callaway of San Diego, and Fred Zackel (me.)
    >
    > Your future depends upon it.
    >
    >
    >

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