Fri, Apr. 25th, 2008, 08:36 pm
Periodic fiction

From time to time I've mentioned Michael Swanwick's Periodic Table of Science Fiction to some of you.  There's a link to it.  Finally.  Swanwick wrote short-short science fiction stories themed on each of the chemical elements.  Actually, some of them are fantasies, and some are hard to classify.  My personal favorites are Vanadium (V, third from the left on the top orange row) and Zinc (Zn, right end of that same orange row).  Fans of Ender's Game must immediately read Magnesium (Mg, third blue row, right cell).  But trust me, you'll end up reading them all.  Enjoy.
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Sat, Apr. 26th, 2008 01:45 pm (UTC)
[info]prjt2501

A friend of mine linked me to that a bit ago...I still pop on there every now and again and read a half dozen or more. They remind me in some ways of "From A to Z, In the Chocolate Alphabet" by Harlan Ellison.

Edited at 2008-04-26 01:45 pm (UTC)
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