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Fantasy: June 22, 2011 Issue [#4463]

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 This week: Seasons of Fantasy and Science fiction
  Edited by: Prosperous Snow celebrating Author IconMail Icon
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2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
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6. Ask & Answer
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About This Newsletter

Twice a year the equinox occurs, in spring and fall. Twice a year the solstice occurs, in summer and winter. These events were important to our ancestors and they created myths to explain the reason.


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Letter from the editor

This year summer arrives in the northern hemisphere on June 21, while in the southern hemisphere winter arrives. Every culture has their myths about why the seasons change. In most cultures, women represent the changing season.

Why do the seasons change? Today we can answer this from a scientific point, but our ancestors created myths to answer this question. The story of Persephone is the best known of these myths. It, like all the myths about the seasons, explains the reasons that the leaves changed in the autumn and plants died in the winter.

As writers, we look at the seasonal myths and get ideas for plots or characters. We use the seasons to explain the different stages in our lives as we mature. For example, youth is the spring of our lives and winter when we grow old. We can also use the seasons to explain the rise and fall of civilizations.

Has anyone ever considered writing his or her own myth about the changing seasons? Answer the questions: why do the seasons change and why are the seasons different in the northern and southern hemispheres? This is a fun exercise to get the creative juices flowing. The deadline for this exercise is Saturday, July 16.


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Excerpt: Murphey looked at the bills. There were a lot of them so he never managed to not notice them...

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You know, i thought someone else had already done this, but anyways, BRAAAAINNSSS!
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Try this fun in and out

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Excerpt: Admiral James T. Kirk had left the planet Vulcan
With his friends because of a man
Who had once saved the Enterprise
From its own untimely demise
By making a sacrifice that no one can.


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Some pondering by Trelane.
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What starship this I think I know.
It's full of human beings though
there is a Vulcan in the crew;
an enterprising ship nouveau.


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Excerpt: Zombies are attacking. You must survive until rescue arrives. Anything could happen.

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Ask & Answer

BIG BAD WOLF is Howling Author Icon writes: Here's an interactive based off of the Capcom game series, "Dead Rising" in which a man finds himself trapped in a place that is full of zombies.

You have three basic options; You can be a guy who is just trying to survive until rescue shows up, you can be a guy who is a threat to everyone, or you can be a zombie.
Thank you for the submission.
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thatBobguy Author Icon writes: And, it doesn't hurt anything that a TV series pilot and indie episodes of a zombie apocalypse thriller, called The Walking Dead, was filmed in Atlanta last year... it is on iTunes and one of the episodes was shot one of the CDC campuses in the area. I thought it was a cool tie-in.

Lothmorwel Author Icon writes: I partly agree with you on this one. I agree that readers do need to be interested from the first page. I dislike, however, overly cliched cliffhanger-type beginnings where we see someone about to be hit by a car and then have to sit through many pages of back-information before getting back to the interesting parts. All this needs to be tied in and integrated, back-story being leaked out in bits in a way that keeps excitement.

Why do the seasons change? Answer this from a mythological point of view.
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