Vulpine

Since I'm currently a visitor here, allow me to introduce myself. First, I'm an American invited by Les from Facebook. As yet I have little idea of what you're doing or whether or not I'll fit in to your general concept.

I am a writer and photographer who has been published once (a short story) and am now working on several novels, two of which can be partially viewed at http://www.saudu.net. My photography can be viewed at http://www.foxtrotphotographics.com

I would recommend visiting my pages and deciding for yourselves whether I would fit in the Ink Stars.

Since my primary writing is based in Science Fiction, I can just imagine what one of my primary characters would be writing in their diary. My stories tend to center around characters who feel extremely out of place where they are, usually due to being non-human in a human world. Their perceptions are skewed and what would be normal to them would be abnormal to the people around them.

Be this as it may, the longer story on my 'blook' centers around a French girl who has moved to America (about 75 years in the future after a global catastrophe) and a genetic construct who doesn't feel like he belongs anywhere. Bring the two together in a world that considers both to be 'unholy,' and you get the tale I'm telling. I'm trying to avoid stereotypes, but sometimes you just can't help it.

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Altaïr a écrit:

And don't forget that it could be the life of a "normal person" writing the life of a non-human in a SF-world, and the too stories melting!

Actually have the foundations of such a story in the "Tracker" series, though it wouldn't really be all that original. Try reading Andre Norton's "Moon of Three Rings" some time. An old novel, but by one of the best SF storytellers of all time.

Alhena a écrit:

Well, the starting point might not be original, but what you'll do with it will certainly be. I don't know those books. Have to look for them.

"Tracker" is my own work at www.saudu.net. The other is one of dozens of SF novels written over 40 years ago by Andre Norton. In today's world, her novels would probably be considered novellas, short novels, since they tended to run less than 200 pages. Still, she had a good imagination and made her aliens characters you could believe in; not the "Giger" style bio-mechanical monsters that are only out for blood. In my own case, I want my stories to be at least somewhat upbeat. I really dislike angst and horror.

Alhena a écrit:

Are they your favourite books? Who else do you read?

A very good question, requiring a rather complex answer.

André Norton is the first real SF writer I remember reading. Her skill at spinning a tale, to me, was unmatched. I devoured her books as a starving man might devour his dinner.

But she is not the only author to influence my reading--or later--my writing. Ray Bradury, too, was one of my early favorites, his short stories in particular showing me so many personalities and images of a possible future. The books "R is for Rocket" and "S is for Space" would be borrowed from my school libraries at least once a year. "The Martian Chronicles" joined that grouping when I discovered it. By the time I was 15 ahn (I hope I spelled that right) I'd read every title available by him at least once.

E.E.'Doc' Smith introduced me to the true Space Opera of the "Lensman" and "Skylark" stories, while Robert A. Heinlein's and Isaac Asimov's young adult novels brought me more into the line of so-called 'Hard' science fiction.

I can't name all the authors I've read since then. What I can say is that, more than once I've had to discard a personal library in excess of 1,000 books in the course of my life. To finally try to add a few of my own stories for future young people to read that might inspire them to look into their own futures is my current goal. Science Fiction has brought our world to much of what we see today. Imagine what modern Science Fiction could do for our future.

Read what I have on my web page and you might be able to help me work out a way to do so.

A tiny bit of science for those who don't know the star Anser. Anser is a binary star system in the constellation Vulpecula, the 'Little Fox.' When the system was first named, it was called "Little Fox and Goose" and the story that went with it was that the Fox was carrying the Goose to a neighboring constellation as a gift. Over the centuries the Goose disappeared but the Fox remained.

So Anser, the Goose, tells the story of the Fox. Those who have been to my website will understand the reference.