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|Publication date
|Feb 19, 1991
|Filing date
|Jul 28, 1989
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|Jul 28, 1988
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|Tomislav Potocnjak
|Original Assignee
|Tepora Transportsysteme Entwicklungs Gmbh
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|Patent Citations (19), Referenced by (17), Classifications (9), Legal Events (6)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
Apparatus for depositing long pieces of material, such as pipes, rods, etc., are known. Such apparatus generally comprise shelf units having rows of shelves that are disposed one above each other and next to one another, with a passageway being provided between each two adjacent rows of shelf units. Disposed in this passageway between the rows of shelf units is a vertically movable lifting platform with which the long pieces of material are conveyed to the individual receiving spaces that are superimposed over one another. To convey the long pieces of material into the individual receiving space via the lifting platforms, receptacles are used that accommodate the long pieces of material and that can be introduced into the individual receiving spaces to deposit the material, and after being emptied are again withdrawn. The shelf units, with their rows of shelves, comprise vertical posts that are connected by horizontal crossbeams.
With one heretofore known apparatus for depositing long pieces of material into the receiving spaces of such a shelf unit, a trough or tray-like receptacle is provided that can be introduced into, and withdrawn from, the individual receiving spaces via rollers. For this purpose, it is necessary that each of the plurality of receiving spaces provided in a shelf unit for the long pieces of material be equipped with transport rails upon which the rollers of the receptacle can travel. These transport rails must structurally be oriented precisely with the track width of the rollers and, since the weight of a receptacle that is loaded with long pieces of material is very high, must be of appropriately substantial dimensions. These rails are generally formed by L-or U-shaped profiled members. Thus, with the heretofore known construction, the L- or U-shaped rails must conform to the respective construction of the receptacle, in particular to the spacing of the individual rollers of this receptacle. Since great weights must be transported and deposited, these profiled rails are furthermore very heavy; viewed as a whole, these rails require a considerable technical and economical outlay.
It is an object of the present invention to embody an apparatus of the aforementioned general type in such a way that profiled rails for introducing the receptacle for the long pieces of material are no longer necessary, so that an individual structural conformation between the movable receptacle and the shelf unit is no longer required, and the shelf units can be lighter in weight and cheaper to produce.
This object, and other objects and advantages of the present invention, will appear more clearly from the following specification in conjunction with the accompanying schematic drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a vertical side view of a storage arrangement for long pieces of material, with a lifting platform and a receptacle for long pieces of material disposed thereon;
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view, transverse to the direction of movement, of one exemplary embodiment of the inventive receptacle for depositing long pieces of material;
FIG. 3 is a simplified cross-sectional view in the vicinity of a crossmember;
FIGS. 4a to 4c are views that show three different stages of the depositing process using the apparatus of FIG. 2;
FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view through a further exemplary embodiment of the inventive receptacle, similar to the view of FIG. 2, in the region of the drive sprockets;
FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view in a different plane showing a receptacle similar to that of FIG. 5 with driven transverse rollers;
FIG. 7 is a detailed view showing an alternative embodiment to that illustrated in FIG. 3;
FIG. 8 is a partial cross-sectional side view of the receptacle of FIGS. 5 and 6;
FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional plan view of a portion of a receptacle of FIG. 8;
FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view of the drive end of a receptacle similar to that of FIG. 2; and
FIG. 11 is a partial side view of the receptacle of FIG. 8 with a drive mechanism.
The apparatus of the present invention is characterized primarily in that the tray-like receptacle is equipped with endless CATERPILLARS that are guided over chain wheels provided at the ends of the receptacle.
By providing the tray-like receptacle with CATERPILLARS, it is possible to use the inventive receptacle in all conventional shelf units without the shelf unit having to have special rails that conform to the track width of the receptacle. Since nearly all shelf units are formed from vertical posts and reinforcing horizontal crossbeams that connect these posts, a tray-like receptacle that is provided for long pieces of material and is equipped with CATERPILLARS can be used in all known shelf units as long as the width of the individual superimposed and adjacent receiving spaces of the shelf units are large enough to accommodate the width of a receptacle provided with CATERPILLARS when the receptacle is introduced into the receiving spaces. It is no longer necessary to provide L- or U-shaped profiled guide rails, since the CATERPILLARS can readily be supported upon the slightly spaced apart crossbeams. Sufficient support can already be provided by two crossbeams if the spacing thereof corresponds to the length of the receptacle that is provided with CATERPILLARS. Furthermore, the advantage is realized that with the inventive configuration, side by side several tray-like receptacles provided with CATERPILLARS can be introduced into appropriately wide receiving spaces. Pursuant to one expedient specific embodiment of the present invention, a CATERPILLAR is disposed on each longitudinal side of the receptacle. Pursuant to a further expedient embodiment, the CATERPILLARS can be coupled with a drive mechanism that is preferably disposed on the lifting platform, which can be raised and lowered and which conveys the receptacle to an eligible receiving space of the individual rows of shelf units.
A particularly advantageous configuration of the inventive apparatus results if the drive mechanism is disposed directly on the movable receptacle itself. Advantageously, the drive mechanism is furthermore provided with means that assure a synchronous drive of both of the CATERPILLARS. Various possibilities exist for this embodiment. Pursuant to one such possibility, a motor equipped with two shaft ends acts upon the chain wheels, or a drive motor equipped with a drive shaft uniformly acts upon both CATERPILLARS via a connecting shaft. If a drive motor is used having an appropriately small speed for moving the receptacle at a reasonable speed, a reduction gearing can be eliminated and the motor can be coupled directly with the chain wheels. Pursuant to one modified embodiment of the drive mechanism, a drive motor acts upon the contact surfaces of the CATERPILLAR via the interposition of friction wheels. With this embodiment also it is expedient that both CATERPILLARS have force exerted synchronously thereupon, which can expediently be achieved by interconnecting two identical friction wheels, each of which cooperates with a respective CATERPILLAR, via a shaft, with this shaft, or one of the friction wheels, being driven by the motor.
In order to provide a contact surface that is as long as possible, it is advantageous for the chain wheels to be mounted in end regions of the wall portions of the receptacle, and for guide or slide bars and/or guide rollers for the CATERPILLARS to be provided between the front and rear chain wheels of a given wall portion. The alternative use of guide rollers is characterized by particularly low frictional forces, whereas the guide bar alternative represents the more economical approach.
Pursuant to one preferred specific embodiment of the side wall portions, the lower section thereof is embodied as a downwardly open profiled guide means that guides the CATERPILLAR and out of which the contact surface of the CATERPILLAR projects. This arrangement not only contributes to a greater stability and torsional rigidity of the tray-like receptacle, but also serves for the exact guidance of the CATERPILLAR and hence the precise positioning of the receptacle in the receiving spaces.
As is known, the commissioning process is ended by depositing the long pieces of material on the crossbeams in the provided receiving space. The removal of the long pieces of material from the receptacle and the depositing thereof upon the crossbeams, for example, can be effected with the aid of a pusher, which has the inner cross-sectional configuration of the receptacle and is movable relative thereto, so that when the receptacle is withdrawn from the receiving space, the long pieces of material that rest on the transverse rollers roll out of the receptacle.
The number of transverse rollers depends upon the length of the receptacle. It has been established that with conventional dimensions of long pieces of material, for example approximately six to seven meters, at least five transverse rollers, and preferably seven transverse rollers, should be provided. These transverse rollers should all have the same diameter and should be distributed at a nearly uniform spacing over the length of the receptacle. For the discharge of the long pieces of material, it is particularly expedient for at least a portion of the total number of transverse rollers to be capable of being driven, so that the long pieces of material can be removed from the receptacle by the rotational movement of the rollers. In this respect, it is particularly advantageous for the transverse rollers to be provided with a chain or drive wheel over which is stretched a transfer chain or drive belt. To guarantee an exact operating progress or movement sequence that does not lead to deviations as a result of varying slippage it is expedient to provide the CATERPILLARS, the transfer chains, and/or the drive belts with tensioning means that are preferably embodied as tensioning rollers.
Depending upon the configuration of the side wall portions it may not be possible to accommodate the drive means or the transverse rollers within these side wall portions. It is therefore proposed that a cover be provided that is secured to one of the side wall portions and that covers the drive means for the transverse rollers. It is particularly expedient if the cover means extend at a slight distance above the transverse rollers and be provided with sections that project downwardly in the region between the transverse rollers. This assures that it is possible to load the receptacle with long pieces of material without special precautionary measures, and that the drive means for the transverse rollers is reliably protected from damage.
Pursuant to one particularly preferred specific embodiment of the drive for the transverse rollers, the transfer chain is stretched over a drive sprocket that is mounted together with a chain wheel of the CATERPILLAR on a shaft, yet can be driven independently therefrom. This independent drive is important due to the fact that the transverse rollers, for the transport of the long pieces of material, remain stationary until the receiving space is reached, and are driven only for depositing the long pieces of material in the receiving space provided therefore. Pursuant to one preferred specific embodiment of the present invention, the drive sprocket can be coupled when needed to the chain wheel of the CATERPILLAR. This can suitably involve a claw or dog coupling, or some similar type of coupling, where the coupling elements positively engage one another.
In one particularly suitable specific embodiment of the present invention, the direction of rotation of the transverse rollers is opposite to the direction of movement of the receptacle, whereby the speed at the generatrices of the transverse rollers is the same as the speed of the receptacle. This results in a relative standstill of the long pieces of material relative to the receiving space of the shelf unit, which at the same time, however, means a relative movement relative to the receptacle. The long pieces of material projecting from the receptacle are thus deposited upon the crossbeams of the shelf unit, and finally rest completely upon the crossbeams of the pertaining receiving space as the long pieces of material roll off from the last transverse roller.
Further specific features of the present invention will be described in detail subsequently.
Referring now to the drawings in detail, FIG. 1 schematically illustrates a storage arrangement for long pieces of material, with two rows 1a and 1b of shelf units, between which is a passageway 2, being shown. A lifting platform 3 is horizontally and vertically movable in the passageway 2 between the rows 1a and 1b of shelf units. The lifting platform 3 serves for raising a trough or tray-like receptacle 4 to the individual receiving spaces 5, which are disposed one above the other and, in the horizontal direction, across from one another. The receiving spaces 5 are formed by vertical posts 6 and horizontal crossbeams 7. The receiving spaces 5 serve for storing various types of long pieces of material 8, such as rods, pipes, etc.
Disposed on the lifting mechanism 3, on each side, are pushers 9 that can be lowered; the function of these pushers will be described in detail subsequently in conjunction with FIG. 2. The receptacle 4 is equipped with CATERPILLARS via which it is possible to introduce the receptacle 4 into and withdraw it from the receiving spaces 5 in the direction of the double arrow F. The construction of the inventive apparatus will be described in detail subsequently in conjunction with the remaining figures.
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view through a receptacle 4 for receiving long pieces of material, with the tray shape of the receptacle 4 being formed by the side wall portions 10 and the transverse rollers 11 that are disposed therebetween. Since the transverse rollers 11, which are rotatably mounted on the wall portions 10, cannot provide the necessary rigidity for the tray-like receptacle 4, the side wall portions 10, as illustrated in FIG. 3 are welded together to form a rigid structure via welded-on crossmembers 12. However, since the upper generatrices 11a of the transverse rollers 11 must be disposed higher than the upper edges 12a of the crossmembers 12 (see FIG. 3), the transverse rollers 11 form a support and hence the base of the receptacle 4 upon which the long pieces of material rest (not shown in FIG. 2).
In the cross-sectional view illustrated in FIG. 2, the receptacle 4 is disposed in a receiving space 5 of the shelf unit between posts 6 and crossbeams 7. In addition, a pusher 9 is shown in the lowered position for holding the long pieces of material in place when the receptacle 4 is withdrawn from the receiving space 5, so that the long pieces of material are slidingly pushed out of the receptacle 4 on the rollers 11. In each of the side wall portions 10, a chain wheel is rotatably mounted on a spindle or shaft 14. The lower portion of the chain wheel 13 extends through an appropriate opening in the lower portion of the wall portion 10 into a profiled guide means 16 that is connected to the wall portion 10. Respective endless CATERPILLARS 17 are stretched over the chain wheels 13, with the CATERPILLARS being precisely guided in the profiled guide means 16. The lower links of the, caterpillar 17 project from the underside of the profiled guide means 16, thereby forming the support or contact surface 18 of the CATERPILLARS 17. It is to be understood that the profiled guide means 16 are provided with the openings 15 only in the vicinity of the chain wheels 13, and are otherwise closed off in the direction toward the side walls, as can be seen from FIGS. 2 and 3.
The commissioning process and the manner of operation of the receptacle 4 will now be described with the aid of FIGS. 4a to 4c. The receptacle 4, which contains the long pieces of material 8 and is disposed on the lifting platform 3, is first brought into a position in which the receptacle is positioned exactly in front of an empty receiving space 5. Once this position has been reached, the receptacle 4, the CATERPILLARS of which can be driven via a drive mechanism, is introduced completely into the receiving space 5, as a result of which the material that is to be commissioned is also disposed completely within the receiving space 5. This process is illustrated in FIG. 4b. The pusher 9 disposed on the lifting platform 3 is then lowered, so that with the exception of a small gap relative to the transverse rollers 11 and the side wall portions 10, one end of the receptacle 4 is closed off For the position assumed by the pushers 9, refer to FIG. 2.
To deposit the long pieces of material 8 into the receiving space 5 provided therefor, the receptacle 4 is withdrawn from the receiving space on the lifting platform 3, as is illustrated in FIG. 4c. Since the lowered pusher 9 holds the long pieces of material 8 in place, the pieces of material roll down from the transverse rollers 11 and rest upon the crossbeams 7 of the row la of shelf units. The empty receptacle 4 is then ready to be refilled with long pieces of material and is available for the next commissioning process.
FIG. 5 is another cross-sectional view through a receptacle 4 that is disposed in a receiving space 5, this time through the shafts of the chain wheels. Since essential components of this illustration coincide with those in FIG. 2, the same reference numerals are used for the same parts. In addition, in FIG. 5 the long pieces of material 8 in the form of round bars are shown resting on the transverse rollers 11. The alternative embodiment of FIG. 5 differs from that of FIG. 2 in that the transverse rollers 11 are provided with a drive mechanism for rotating the rollers 11 and hence depositing the long pieces of material. For this purpose, the left chain wheel 13 of FIG. 5 is secured to a longer shaft 19 that extends into the interior of the receptacle 4. Disposed on a portion of this extended shaft 19 is a drive sprocket 20 that can rotate freely upon the shaft 19. Stretched over the drive sprocket 20 is a transfer chain 21 that serves to drive the transverse rollers 11 when necessary. A coupling member 23 is non-rotatably yet axially displaceably mounted on an extension 22 of the shaft 19. In the manner of a claw or dog coupling, the coupling member 23 can be brought into engagement with a coupling pin 24 that projects in the axial direction from the drive sprocket 20. In FIG. 5, the upper half of the coupling member 23 is shown in the disengaged position, and the lower half 23' of the coupling member is shown in a coupled state. This drive mechanism for the transverse rollers 11 is covered via a sheet-metal hood 25 that is secured to the side wall portion 10, for example via screws. This hood 25 serves, on the one hand, to protect against accidents, and on the other hand serves to protect the drive means from damage by the long pieces of material 8.
FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view through the apparatus of FIG. 5, but is taken in a different plane, in particular more toward the center of the receptacle 4. This view shows that not only the upper horizontal movement, i.e. the upper run, but also the lower horizontal movement, i.e. the bottom run, of the CATERPILLARS 17 are guided on guide or slide bars 26 and 27. The guide bars 26 prevent the CATERPILLARS 17 from sagging, and the guide bars 27 assure a uniform progress of the CATERPILLARS, even when the underlying surface is uneven, or when the CATERPILLARS travel over the crossbeams 7. The left end of the transverse roller 11 illustrated in the embodiment of FIG. 6 is provided with a chain wheel 28 that is rigidly connected to the transverse roller 11 and that can be driven by the transfer chain 21. After the transfer chain 21 has been guided over all of the chain wheels 28, it is returned to the upper portion below the sheet-metal hood 25, with guide bars or rollers 29 being provided for an exact guidance of the transfer chain 21. FIG. 6 also shows that the hood 25 extends to just above the transverse roller 11, and is provided with a section 25' that extends into the region between two transverse rollers 11.
FIG. 7 shows a detailed portion of an alternative embodiment to that illustrated in FIG. 3, namely the arrangement of a crossmember 12 on a side wall portion 10 or profiled guide means 16. In the embodiment of FIG. 7, a spacer or intermediate piece 31 is secured to the crossmember 12. Disposed on the upper side of the intermediate piece 31 is a guide bar 30 upon which the transfer chain 21 is guided in the region between two adjacent chain wheels of the transverse rollers.
The section 25' of the hood 25 can be secured to the crossmember 12 by screws or the like, so that the drive system is easily accessible for the purpose of carrying out maintenance or repair work.
FIG. 8 shows a portion of a side view or longitudinal cross-sectional view of the receptacle of FIGS. 5 and 6. By means of the contact surface 18 of the CATERPILLAR 17, the receptacle 8 rests upon the crossbeams 7 of the shelf unit. FIG. 8 also shows that a crossmember 12 is disposed between two transverse rollers 11. In conformity with the illustration of FIG. 3, the crossmember 12, together with the side wall portions, form the structure of the receptacle 4. Disposed on the extension 22 of the shaft 19 is the coupling member 23 with which the coupling pins 24 of the drive sprocket 20 engage. The transfer chain 21 is guided over the drive sprocket 20 and extends in the lower portion over the upper periphery of the chain wheels 28. In addition, a tensioning roller 32 is provided for tensioning the transfer chain 21. The CATERPILLAR 17 is placed over the outer gear ring of the chain wheel 13, and is guided to the guide bar 26 via the tensioning roller 33, the height of which can be adjusted. Due to the specific guidance of the transfer chain 21 over the upper portion of the chain wheels 28, a travelling motion of the receptacle 4 to the right in the drawing results in a counterclockwise rotation of the transverse rollers 11; this presumes, of course, that the coupling is connected. Due to the fact that the receptacle 4 and the transverse rollers 11 are moving in opposite directions, the long pieces of material disposed in the receptacle 4 remain, so to speak, fixed; in other words, the long pieces of material do not move relative to the shelf unit, and are rolled out of the receptacle 4 at a uniform speed via the transverse rollers 11 as the receptacle 4 is withdrawn from the shelf unit. Thus the long pieces of material rest upon the crossbeams 7 of the shelf unit, as was described in connection with FIGS. 4a-4c.
FIG. 9 is a plan view showing part of the receptacle 4 of FIG. 8. The reference numeral 6 again indicates a vertical post, and the reference numeral 7 indicates a crossbeam of the shelf unit. Welded to the side wall portion 10 is a crossmember 12 that extends parallel to the transverse rollers 11. The transverse rollers 11 are provided with chain wheels 28 over which a transfer chain 21 is placed. The transfer chain 21 is stretched over a drive sprocket 20 that is mounted on a shaft 19 together with a further chain wheel 13 and a coupling member 23. The caterpillar 17, on which the receptacle 4 can travel, runs over the chain wheel 13. Attached to the coupling member 23 is a coupling lever 34, actuation of which into the dot-dash line position effects engagement of the coupling member 23 with the coupling pin 24, resulting in a driving of the transverse rollers 11 As can be seen in FIG. 9, the sheet-metal hood 25 covers the entire region of the drive mechanism of the transverse rollers 11, including the pertaining coupling in the front part of the receptacle 4. FIG. 10 shows a variation of the embodiment of FIG. 2 with a drive mechanism mounted on the receptacle 4. The drive mechanism includes a motor 35, on the shaft of which is secured a pinion 36 that meshes with an intermediate gear wheel 37. The intermediate gear wheel 37 is secured to a connecting shaft 38 that is guided in a connecting tube 39 between the side wall portions 10. Secured to that end of the connecting shaft 37 remote from the pinion 36 is a second intermediate gear wheel 37' that has the same circumference and number of teeth as does the first intermediate gear wheel 37 that meshes with the pinion 36. The respective gear rings of the intermediate gear wheels 37 and 37' mesh with gear wheels 40 and 40' that are connected with friction wheels 41 and 41' of the spindles 42 and 42'. The friction wheels 41 and 41' are in frictional contact with the CATERPILLARS 17, thereby transferring the rotational movement of the drive motor 35 to the CATERPILLARS 17 at an appropriately reduced speed. A good frictional engagement between the CATERPILLAR 17 and the friction wheels 41, 41' is achieved by providing the friction wheels with a hard rubber coating 43.
Since the intermediate gear wheels 37, 37', the gear wheels 40, 40', and the friction wheels 41, 41' have exactly the same configuration on both sides of the receptacle 4, a synchronous drive of the two CATERPILLARS is effected, so that an exactly straight ahead travel of the receptacle 4 is assured.
FIG. 11 shows the receptacle 4 of FIG. 8 equipped with the drive mechanism of FIG. 10. Since the receptacle 4 coincides essentially with that of FIG. 8, only the additionally provided drive mechanism will be described. This drive mechanism includes the motor 35, which can, for example, be an electric or hydraulic motor, or a pneumatic drive. Via a pinion 36, the motor 35 drives an intermediate gear wheel 37, which is secured to a connecting shaft 38. The connecting shaft 38 is disposed in a connecting tube 39. The intermediate gear wheel 37 meshes via its gear ring with a gear wheel 40, which along with a friction wheel 41 is disposed on a common spindle 42. The friction wheel 41 is in frictional connection with the contact surface of the CATERPILLAR 17. The entire drive mechanism is disposed in a support frame that includes side frame parts 44 and the connecting tube 39 that interconnects them. The drive mechanism is mounted on a bolt 46 by means of a hook means 45, and is tensioned via a tensioning device 47 in such a way that the necessary frictional force exists between the friction wheel 41 and the CATERPILLAR 17.
The present invention is, of course, in no way restricted to the specific disclosure of the specification and drawings, but also encompasses any modifications within the scope of the appended claims.
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Owner name: TEPORA TRANSPORTSYSTEME ENTWICKLUNGS GMBH, GERMANY
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- Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
- Fiasco, the game by Jason Morningstar
- Stranger Things Happen Fiasco playset by Benjamin Rosenbaum
- Bonus content: The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum
- Clockwork Phoenix 5
- Black Static #52
- Interzone #264
- LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction – Issue 6
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #200
- Uncanny Magazine
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Mothership Zeta
- New York Review of Science Fiction
- Galaxy's Edge
- At 25 new/renewing subscribers, BCS will raise our submissions word-count limit to 11,000 words.
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The Hemingway/Wilde FallacyTags: Lackington's
This post from the editor of Lackington's, Ranylt Richildis, describes a false dichotomy and describes what the magazine exists to publish. It was originally posted here.
When I taught English, there was only one Rule of Literature I wanted undergrads to take away from my classes: different readers want different things, and different writers want to write things in different ways, and good literature comes in all shapes and vowel sounds — don't let Aristotle tell you otherwise. To illustrate this, I coined the "Hemingway/Wilde fallacy," inspired by arguments about whether prose should be clear and simple vs. poetic and textured and complex. Hemingway fans tend to hate Wilde and any other writer they accuse of "florid" style, finding little to enjoy in Woolf, say, or Garcia Marquez. That preference is just that, of course, and has no bearing on the degree of Wilde's skill or the value of his work, and yet that preference has edged perilously close to universal ruledom — a vestige of twentieth-century taste that emerged in a particular but hardly timeless aesthetic context.
As someone who appreciates Hemingway and Wilde, I've always been mystified by this skirmish. So I drew up a lesson based on the two names that most frequently came up as benchmarks of — or anathema to — Good Literature in these Eurocentric diatribes, using names most students on a Eurocentric campus would recognize. I pulled a passage out of The Sun Also Rises and another from The Picture of Dorian Gray and demonstrated just how precise both authors were with their words, and how poetic both results. Put simply, the Hemingway/Wilde fallacy operates under the misapprehension that there's only one way to ink a cat.
You'd think post-modernism would have jolted us out of aesthetic philosophy cum moral certainty, but no. The Hemingway/Wilde fallacy is embraced by editors, not just scholars, and it confuses even seasoned writers, who are nervous about writing fiction in the present tense, writing from second-person or even first-person POV, using frame stories, using long paragraphs, using adverbs, or daring to tell rather than show (is the folktale completely verboten, then? a pity). It's fair for editors to post, on Submission pages, that certain styles will be hard sells for their press (as someone who dislikes second-person POV, I get it); an editor's own preferences shape each publication, and that's a good and inevitable thing. From where I sit as scholar, writer, and editor, however, I contend that it's not fair to tout our preferences as Universal Ruledom for Good Literature, to the point where writers feel corralled within a single tense, a single POV, and a single more conventional prose style for fear of being labelled "bad" writers. It's heartbreaking to see exciting and capable authors Twitter-worry that the novel they long to write in present tense "isn't allowed"; and it's liberating to read commentary by Raya Wolfsun and Matt Moore (to name the two I read just today) that defends heterogeneity in writing and publishing.
Maybe these laments and defences are signals that the twentieth-century template isn't as valued or authoritative as it used to be. It may be true that writers must honour the wider taste if they wish to sell their work — but taste is partly a product of what we're used to seeing, so let's expose ourselves to contrast before we doom ourselves even further to sameness. It may also be true that editors see a lot of bad fiction written in present tense, or second-person, or florid language — but let's acknowledge our selective perception and admit we see even more bad fiction written in past tense and third-person POV, full of "masculine" nouns and verbs, and short on "feminine" adjectives and adverbs. Weak writers also write weakly in the common template, and I've accepted second-person POV stories for Lackington's despite my bias because they were well done. Popular fiction continues to be published in first-person or present tense or both, so why this reluctance, this anxiety? Why this haste to "vilify," as Wolfsun puts it, non-template writing features when these features are skillfully used? Advice that may be of use for rookie writers shouldn't guide all writers and shouldn't shape the bulk of our literature, for pity's sake. I'm grateful to writers who create off-template, and to the editors who appreciate variety. Every time I see a well-written story that refuses to toe the line, I smile a satisfied smile and grow a little as a reader. More of that, please.
Lackington's publishes speculative fiction and art four times a year and is looking for:
Stylized prose can be sparse and simple, diamond-cut like the writing of Ursula K. Le Guin. It can be sumptuous like the writing of Oscar Wilde. It can be epic, archaic, experimental, mythic, rhythmic, and it can be quiet and subtle, too. Story and character are indispensable, but so is wordcraft. We trade in aesthetics, so make us gasp with unexpected words and give us inventive voices, structures, and narratives. Many editors reject heavily stylized prose out of hand. We welcome it.
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Get the Stranger Things Happen + Fiasco BundleTags: Benjamin Rosenbaum, Bully Pulpit Games, Bundles, Fiasco, Kelly Link
I'm very excited to announce a completely new thing today: the Stranger Things Happen + Fiasco Bundle!
A couple of years ago Benjamin Rosenbaum proposed a Fiasco playset based on Kelly's collection Stranger Things Happen. Fiasco is a storytelling game where players make up and tell each other stories with different playsets that allow them to bring in different elements, tropes, and tones to the stories. Ben wrote the playset and Steve Segedy of Bully Pulpit Games put the bundle together.
The bundle is $14 and exclusively available here and on the Bully Pulpit site, and comprises full sets of digital files (epubs, mobis, pdfs) of:
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About Fiasco
"Fiasco is one of the greatest storytelling RPGs I've ever played. I highly recommend it."
— Wil Wheaton
About Stranger Things Happen
Stories from Stranger Things Happen have won the Nebula, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Award. Stranger Things Happen was a Salon Book of the Year, one of the Village Voice's 25 Favorite Books of 2001, and was nominated for the Firecracker Alternative Book Award.
"Pity the poor librarians who have to slap a sticker on Kelly Link's genre-bending, mind-blowing masterpiece of the imagination, Stranger Things Happen."—Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia, for NPR's You Must Read This
"My favorite fantasy writer, Miss Kelly Link."
—Alan Cheuse, NPR, All Things Considered
About The Ant King and Other Stories
* "Give him some prizes, like, perhaps, "best first collection" for this book."
—Booklist (Starred review)
"A terrific range of tales, showcasing an active, playful mind and a gleeful genre-blender."
—Aimee Bender
"Ben Rosenbaum is one of the freshest and finest voices to appear in science fiction in many years. The stories collected in The Ant King demonstrate his astonishing versatility, his marvelous imagination, and his ready wit."
—Jack Womack
Welcoming Book Smugglers Publishing!Tags: Book Smugglers Publishing, Broken, Susan Jane Bigelow
Today we're very pleased to welcome the powerhouse of Book Smugglers Publishing to Weightless. They are launching here with two novels by Susan Jane Bigelow in her Extrahuman Union series, Broken and Sky Ranger, the Book Smugglers' Quarterly Almanac, and a subscription to same.
To introduce the series and celebrate today's publication of the second book, Sky Ranger, here's a post Susan Jane Bigelow wrote about where her series comes from when Broken first came out:
Broken I&I
by Susan Jane Bigelow
Broken started the way a lot of these things do: with a post on LiveJournal.
A long time ago I got involved in a comment thread about superhero names, and I came up with a few that I liked: Broken, Sky Ranger, and Crimson Cadet. From that, the germ of a story began to grow. How could I not want to write about super-powered people with these names?
And so I did. I entered NaNoWriMo that year and managed to produce a very rough draft of Broken.
I love superheroes, and I always have. I grew up watching the old Batman TV show and Superfriends; later I devoured the Batman animated series, Superman, Justice League, and the 1990s cartoon version of X-Men. Superheroes are a mess of questions, most of the time. Why did they take separate "hero" names, and where did those come from? How did they deal with feeling different? How do they relate to one another?
Superhero teams are something that especially fascinated me. How do all these incredibly powerful people get along? What could possibly bring them together? How might they break apart?
Broken's Extrahuman Union is a deliberate echo of these old superhero teams. It's sort of like a mandatory version of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters that no one can ever leave!
Much as I loved traditional superhero stories like Batman and Peter David's run on the Supergirl comic book, I started to seek out alternative ways of looking at them. The Authority, The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, and The Maxx are comics that looked at superheroes through a darker, stranger lens.
And so Broken herself is descended from Supergirl, Jenny Sparks, The Maxx, and even Alita from the manga Battle Angel Alita.
The rest of the world of Broken owes a lot to 90s science fiction TV like Babylon 5 and to all the fantastic space opera I've read, like Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan saga.
The book also owes a debt to George W. Bush. If he hadn't beaten John Kerry in 2004, I wouldn't have been grouchy enough to spend an entire month writing about super-powered people living under an emergent fascist regime. Thanks, George!
But maybe the biggest and weirdest influence on the book is a line from the Butthole Surfers song "Pepper," which is all about teens who go courting death. It goes "Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain / That is pouring like an avalanche, coming down the mountain."
This story—this whole series—is about Broken falling in love with life.
An A-Z of Ebook FormatsTags: Hal Duncan
Sorry for the completely misleading title. It's not meant to be clickbaity or edumactional, rather it's a celebration of us adding two new ebook formats to Hal Duncan's lovely chapbook, An A-Z of the Fantastic City.
Originally only available as a pdf, today we have added both epub and mobi formats thanks to ebook maker Frédéric Hugot of French science fiction publisher Éditions Critic.
Given the (dis)United Kingdom's Brexit vote and the ongoing international upheaval I am very happy to have Scot's author Hal Duncan's book of international and fantastical cities remade and more widely available thanks to a French volunteer.
Here's one of the 26 entries from the book:
The firm of Ackroyd, Moorcock and Sinclair, Solicitors, is the oldest existing company on record, dating back to the dawn of Albion in the foundation of Trynovantium, or New Troy, the settlement which was to go through a few more names—Caerlundein, Londinium—before settling on its present day nomenclature of London. From a small enterprise set up by three merchants to dot the i's and cross the t's on the treaty signed between Brutus and the autochthonous inhabitants of a tiny village on the river Thames, this legal firm slowly established itself as an integral aspect of the growing city's mercantile existence. Its history is, in many ways, the history of the city itself.
Joseph of Arimathea, on his arrival with the Magdalene and her son, arranged the loan with which he purchased land for his new home through Ackroyd, Moorcock and Sinclair, using the Holy Grail as collateral. Where the Anglo-Saxon chronicles provide only the sketchiest accounts of comets and catastrophes, the records of this firm provide exhaustive detail on trade arrangements with the Norse, land disputes between the Normans, jurisdictional challenges from the North. It was this firm whose clerks drafted the Magna Carta, this firm who arranged Henry VIII's divorce, this firm who took care of the British East India Trading Company's most confidential colonial affairs. Even today most mortgages, leases, compulsory purchase orders and debt reclamations in London are arranged through Ackroyd, Moorcock and Sinclair, Solicitors, a situation which has led to all manner of conspiracy theories regarding the supposedly mystical alignment of various key buildings—Hawksmoor's churches, the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral. One merely has to enter these three names into an internet search engine to find website after website devoted to the secret truths to be found in a study of London's streets. This firm was instrumental in the rebuilding of the city after the Great Sinking of London, when most of the city was swallowed up by its underlying swamplands, as recorded in the diaries of Richard Jefferies, published as After London (1885).
Personally, I have only respect for this long-established firm, having first-hand experience of their efficiency in ironing out the contractual legalities between my publishers and myself. I have found them most amicable to deal with, highly professional but also understanding enough of a writer's persona to conduct business over an endless lunch rather than in an interminable meeting. And if they have imposed some grand occult design over the city of London, well, the resultant mystery is a majestic one.
I remember thinking this, as I flew down from Kentigern to Heathrow for that first meeting, looking out of the window of the plane, at a city between Halloween and Guy Fawkes' Night, a city brilliant in the nine o'clock dark of autumn.
The city at night, at this time of year, seen from the sky, looks like a field of moss the colour of candlelight, a carpeting of broken glass, crushed underfoot and glowing orange. Tiny little bursts of sparkle flash here and there like sequins catching ballroom lights: fireworks going off all over the city. As the plane descends the blossoming is close enough to take shape, instances of anemones. We fly down into the shatterings of light until they're all around us, the city so vast that they stretch back as far as the eye can see.
A little mystery in a city is no bad thing.
The God in Flight ReturnsTags: Laura Argiri, Lethe Press
Laura Argiri's novel The God in Flight was first published in 1996. The story of a Yale student's romance with his art professor was one of the few gay historical romances at the time and was very well received:
"Argiri provides an enchanting menagerie of bullies and villains, friends and mentors. And her pair of lovers are as memorable as Mary Renault's Alexander and Bagoas. Many readers should be delighted by this haunting blend of melodrama and fancy."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Argiri understands the way intellectual gay men in the late 19th century thought and felt."—David Leavitt for the Los Angeles Times
"Art professor Doriskos Klionarios looks and sculpts like a Greek god. His teenage student, Simion Satterwhite, has a faunlike beauty and a genius for math. Their true love triumphs over child abuse, anorexia, homophobia, censorship, and the violence of bigots. This lush, effusive work [has] some satiric bite."—Entertainment Weekly
"If a novel's worth can be measured by the power and verity of the emotions it instills in the reader, then Argiri's approaches the divine. It transforms and moves the spirit as modern fiction should and so seldom does, describing a love story with such true emotion that the heart aches reading it."—Booklist
Over time the book fell out-of-print; Argiri had been too early in writing a novel in a genre that now has captivated many thousands of readers, regardless of their gender or sexuality, readers who simply enjoy a top-quality love story between two people at a time when that love is considered forbidden.
Happily for us, our friends at preeminent queer publisher Lethe Press are proudly reprinting this book and finally providing devotees of ebooks the chance to read this touching story. Here in Pride Month 2016, the book's message is a timely affirmation: Love is stronger than violence. Joy is within reach, even if we have to work for it. We are strong enough!
Tor Dreams of Distant Shores Sweepstakes
We just added bestselling author Patricia A. McKillip's latest book, a collection of stories Dreams of Distant Shores and I see that Tor.com has a sweepstakes running until June 17th.
Either way, buy it or enter the sweepstakes, it's not a book to miss!
May 2016 BestsellersTags: Bestsellers
Apparently not everyone is playing Neko Atsume on their phones, some people are also reading a lot. We had a great month kickstarted along by two star magazines, Uncanny and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, who both ran very successful subscription drives.
These magazines, like Weightless, run on subscriptions and readers choosing DRM-free independence over globespanning humorless megacorporations. We appreciate the business, we'd like to stay in business, so we will keep working to make the site faster and easier to navigate and we hope readers will keep spreading the word, especially internationally as about half of our readers are from beyond these shores. Hello world!
Someone slipped us a piece of good news this month that we will get to share with you later. Will it mean more good reading for you? Possibly!
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Welcoming Congress Magazine!Tags: Congress Magazine
We're very happy to announce that today we have the first issue of Molly Tanzer's new project, Congress Magazine, and to celebrate it we have Molly's first Editorial. Technically we aren't adding any new publishers this year to Weightless but since we'd already worked with Molly and Jeremiah on The Big Click this was an easy addition:
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Congress Magazine. Here, you will find what we like to call thoughtful erotica: stories that excite the mind and bewitch the senses as they draw the reader in with strong plots and unforgettable characters. Good smut can be good literature, as connoisseurs know, and we seek to insert ourselves into that grand tradition.
This month we present three original stories and a reprint for your pleasure. First, Livia Llewellyn, that mistress of the sinister and seductive, treats us to "Bohemian Grove, 1916." Ms. Llewellyn's story is imminently suitable for our summer debut, being full of sweat-dampened dresses, tanned thighs, rumpled suits, and private jaunts to private islands. And owls. Then, we have Robert Levy's "My Heart's Own Desire," a transgressive triple threat of love, sex, violence, and drugs. Oh—wait, that's four things. It's hard to count when one's fingers are so busy.
Following Mr. Levy we have the mysterious Matthew Addison's "Wish Girls," about a man who's grown tired of his matched set of magical sexy cheerleaders. If it sounds like a good problem to have, imagine having two immortal, lithe, long-limbed, stacked cheerleaders always hanging around your apartment, eager and ready to please no matter what the request (or command). If it still sounds like a good problem to have… you'll just have to read Mr. Addison's story.
And finally, we have David Nickle's "The Bicameral Twist." When I approached Mr. Nickle about writing for Congress, he suggested the title "Bicameral" as a tease. Well, we love teasing here at Congress, especially when it's followed by something more substantial… and Mr. Nickle certainly provided that. "Bicameral Twist" is as cerebral as it gets, but keep an open mind. You might learn something about yourself… from yourself.
Future issues of Congress may feature nonfiction, or comics, or essays, but we're all fiction this month. Come August, expect more; we'll deliver the goods right to your computer or e-reader.
While our content will always be free online, an issue costs just $2.99 here on Weightless. You can also subscribe to our full six-issue run through Weightless Books for just $17.94. A small operation, we appreciate your support, as it means we can keep purchasing great fiction and luscious covers, like this month's, by Gerard Vlaz.
A magazine is only as good as its writers and its staff. I feel so lucky to have four such talented authors ushering us into existence. I'm also l lucky to have support from Jeremiah Tolbert, our publisher—and such a killer name, courtesy Nick Mamatas.
So, welcome. I sincerely hope you enjoy your time with us… and that we leave you craving more.
Molly Tanzer
Editrix, Congress Magazine
Small Beer Humble BundleTags: Humble Bundle, Small Beer Press
There are less than two days left on the Small Beer Humble Bundle — get 21 ebooks for $15 or more . . . And please consider adding Franciscan Children's under the Choose Your Own Charity, we thank you very much!
BCS 200th Issue Subscription DriveTags: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, subscription drive
To celebrate the 200th issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, we're having a Subscription Drive!
UPDATE: our first goal is unlocked! BCS has raised our word-count limit to 11,000 words.
Subscribe now, and help us raise it to 12,000 or even 15,000!
BCS #1 debuted in October 2008. Since then we've published 200 issues, 419 stories, and 201 audio podcasts. We've been a finalist for four Hugo Awards, five World Fantasy Awards, two Nebula Awards, one BSFA Award, numerous Aurora, Aurealis, Ditmar, and Parsec Awards, and won a World Fantasy Award. We've become the field's go-to home for character-driven fantasy in secondary-world settings. Locus online said BCS "revived secondary-world fantasy as a respectable subgenre of short fiction… Not a trivial accomplishment."
And there's more to come! BCS this year will feature new stories by returning BCS authors Marie Brennan, Gregory Norman Bossert (whose first BCS story "The Telling" won the World Fantasy Award), Mishell Baker, Raphael Ordoñez, KJ Kabza, Grace Seybold, Stephanie Burgis, Walter Dinjos, and Tony Pi, plus Catherynne M. Valente, Kameron Hurley, A.M. Dellamonica, Claude Lalumière, and many more.
Ebook subscriptions to BCS are only $15.99 for a full year/26 issues. (That's less than 30 cents a story!) Subscribers can get issues delivered directly to their Kindle or smart phone, and they get new issues early, a week before the website.
From now until June 3, if you buy a BCS ebook subscription or renew your existing subscription, you can help unlock our drive goals.
Since BCS #1 in 2008, over a third of our fiction has been novelette-length or longer. Longer stories work great to show awe-inspiring fantasy worlds, like you'll find in every issue of BCS. Our word-count limit for submissions, 10,000 words, has always been among the longest if not the longest in pro-rate online magazines.
With your help, we'd like to make it even longer!
Every subscription makes a difference in helping us pay our authors, for their great stories of all lengths. With your support, we look forward to another 200 issues of BCS and great literary adventure fantasy!
Kickstarter with 1/2-Price LCRW SubscriptionTags: John Crowley, Kickstarter
Wearing my Small Beer Press hat (or T-shirt), we're running a Kickstarter for what John Crowley calls the first science fiction novel. We're offering the DRM-free ebook as one of the rewards which can also be acquired with a 1/2 price LCRW ebook subscription: 8 issues for the price of 4. Subscriptions will be fulfilled here on Weightless and current subscribers who choose this option will have their subscriptions extended.
Interzone and Black Static on Sale!Tags: Black Static, Interzone, TTA Press
The new issues of top UK sf&f magazines Interzone and Black Static are both on sale for 40% off this week: regularly $4.99 they are $2.99 each. Try one, try both, maybe subscribe. International magazines ftw!
Uncanny Magazine Subscription Drive 2016!Tags: subscription drive, Uncanny Magazine
Uncanny Magazine is once again recruiting for its Space Unicorn Ranger Corps! We named the Uncanny Kickstarter backers the Space Unicorn Ranger Corps after our amazing Space Unicorn mascot. Now, you can become a member of the Corps by subscribing here at Weightless Books!
This is the perfect time to join because Uncanny is going on sale! From May 3-17, a year's subscription to Uncanny Magazine is $2 less than the typical current cover price (only $21.88)! It's the least expensive way to subscribe we offer.
Each bimonthly issue of Uncanny contains new and classic speculative fiction, poetry, essays, art, and interviews. We seek out and share pieces we can't stop thinking and talking about, because of how they make us feel. We're also deeply committed to finding and showcasing fantastic works by writers from every possible point of view and background.
We debuted Issue One of Uncanny in November 2014 and we've been thrilled with Years One and Two. We've included original contributions from phenomenal authors such as Neil Gaiman, Maria Dahvana Headley, Max Gladstone, Ken Liu, Christopher Barzak, Sam J. Miller, Sofia Samatar, Catherynne M. Valente, Alyssa Wong, Elizabeth Bear, John Chu, Kameron Hurley, Charlie Jane Anders, Ursula Vernon, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Chris Kluwe, Hao Jingfang, Mary Robinette Kowal, Seanan McGuire, Mark Oshiro, Rachel Swirsky, E. Lily Yu, and Amal El-Mohtar, plus many newer voices. We can't wait for you to read what's coming next.
New or renewing subscribers to Uncanny Magazine from May 3-17, 2016 will be eligible for giveaways and a whole bunch of Uncanny swag!
There may also be random prize drawings throughout the subscription drive. You never know with the Space Unicorns…
Clarkesworld & Forever in PDFTags: Clarkesworld, Forever, PDF
Good news for fans of the portable document format: both Clarkesworld & Forever magazines are now available in PDF. Get your own fixed formatted files here:
Uncanny Magazine Author Interview: Jim C. HinesTags: Andrea Pawley, Author Spotlight, Jim C. Hines, Racism, Uncanny Magazine, Weightless Books
Weightless Books interviews Jim C. Hines, author of twelve fantasy novels and blogger about topics ranging from sexism and harassment to zombie-themed Christmas carols.
Q: In a break from your novel-writing, you took some time to write an insightful essay about racism in science fiction and fantasy for Uncanny Magazine. Your starting point in the essay was the November 2015 decision that the World Fantasy Awards would no longer use a statue of H.P. Lovecraft as a trophy. Have you ever had to explain racism in SF/F to a child?
Hines: I've had conversations about racism with children before – most notably my own children – but it wasn't specific to SF/F. It's a challenging conversation, and depends a lot on the age and experiences of the child. My son has a very straightforward view that "treating people differently because of their skin color is dumb." But then the question becomes how to talk about the historical and systemic roots of racism, the power structures that perpetuate it, the less obvious ways it plays out in day to day life, and so on.
So we talk about power and greed and fear. We talk about cultural misunderstandings and miscommunications. (We've been reading Janet Kagan's Hellspark, which is a great book for discussing culture and taboo and miscommunication.) We talk about how things that happened decades or centuries ago still have a very real impact on people today, whether it's housing segregation or the United States' attempts to wipe out Native Americans.
Q: In the Uncanny essay, you ask "When we think about 'prevailing attitudes on race,' are we limiting our thinking to the prevailing attitudes of white people?" Why do you think this concept of "prevailing attitudes" has been allowed to persist for so long, and what can people do to rewrite the narrative?
Hines: History is shaped by those in power. Here in the U.S., that means our history has been taught through a dominantly white lens. While there are exceptions, we generally learn to focus on white figures and white voices, to the exclusion of other perspectives and attitudes.
As a white man in 2016, I think one of the most important things is to recognize those omissions in my own education and understanding, and to actively seek out other voices to start to fill those gaps.
Q: Your books and short stories are filled with protagonists and villains who are strong, smart, and funny regardless of their race, gender, or sexual identity. When did you first notice the gap between the portrayal of male protagonists versus female ones in the work of other authors?
Hines: Thank you. I don't think there was a particular time or date when awareness switched on in my brain. Even today there are books I'll read where someone else later calls out instances of sexism or racism or other problems that I completely missed in my own reading.
It's something I try to be aware of, because when you're flooded with representation in stories, it's so easy not to notice when others aren't. It's an ongoing process, one that for me, required conscious effort.
It also helps a lot if you actively try to broaden the stories and authors you read. The more you read books that do a good job of portraying a range of well-written female characters, for example, the more it stands out when other stories fail to do so.
Q: Wealth and rights disparities can be a key component of science fiction and fantasy storylines nowadays. How do you think the future will judge those story lines and their authors?
Hines: That depends on the future, and whether we end up in the Darkest Timeline.
Realistically, the future will probably be as contentious as the present, with just as wide a range of opinions. I suspect people will look at our literature in the context of our times, just as we do to past works. And just as in previous eras, there will be areas where we fall short, where our own prejudices and assumptions shine through in our stories.
My hope is that the future judges authors and our stories honestly. Recognize the good without ignoring the bad.
Of course, this will all become moot when the ant people invade and put us to work in their vast sugar mines…
Q: "Rape Resources" isn't a prominent link most SF/F authors have on their websites, but yours has that. Is it hard for you to move from talking with fans one moment about SF/F and the next about sexual assault resources?
Hines: Not really, no. Sexual assault issues are really important to me, and have been for more than half my life at this point. Statistically, we have so many people who have been sexually assaulted, and given the scope of the problem, we don't do a fraction of the work we should be doing to combat that problem, and to support survivors. Posting those resources and writing about rape are small ways I try to change things.
Most of the time when I'm talking about rape with someone from the SF/F community, it's either someone who wants to argue about it, or someone who's been assaulted. The former can be frustrating, but I've done enough research and work to be able to present the facts for those willing to listen. The latter can be painful, but I do my best to listen and be supportive. It's never easy, but it's important.
Q: You've written more than a dozen novels, and you have a wide fan base that you stay in contact with through the internet, conventions, and other events. How do you keep life in balance?
Hines: By falling down a lot. Balance is a daily struggle. Sometimes it depends on my deadlines. If I have a book due, I need to make sure I hit that deadline, which might mean neglecting the internet and not getting as much time with my family as I want. Other times, when I start to feel burnt out, I have to walk away from the writing and play video games with my kids. Going to conventions and chatting with people online can take up a lot of time and energy, but it can also give energy back and help to refuel my excitement about the genre or a particular project.
Lately, I've had to say no to more projects, which is painful. I've turned down events and writing opportunities that I'd love to do, but there are only so many hours in the day, and I've got to prioritize.
If anyone ever figures out an easy way to maintain that life balance, please let me know!
Jim C. Hines is the author of twelve fantasy novels, including the Magic ex Libris series, the Princess series of fairy tale retellings, the humorous Goblin Quest trilogy, and the Fable Legends tie-in Blood of Heroes. He's an active blogger at www.jimchines.com, and won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. He lives in mid-Michigan with his family.
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Interview: Ken Liu
To celebrate the sixth issue of LONTAR, we have an exclusive short interview by editor Jason Erik Lundberg with Ken Liu, whose "Running Shoes" is the lead-off story. Liu is the multi-award winning author of The Grace of Kings and The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, and Hugo-winning translator of Liu Cixin's novel The Three-Body Problem.
Jason Lundberg: Your story "Running Shoes" initially takes place at a sweatshop in rural Vietnam, and then moves to an American suburb. What relationship were you aiming to show between these two locales?
First, thank you very much for the interview, Jason! I'm honored to be part of LONTAR.
I don't know if I had a specific aim in this story with the contrasting settings. We live on a planet that is not flat. Some of us are born through the veil of ignorance into conditions of great privilege; some of us are not. Is it moral to tolerate the world the way it is? Is it moral to seek to reshape it the way we want it to be? Is it moral to depict the world as it is? Is it moral to ignore the world the way it is? Is it moral to ask questions and have no answers?
I don't have any answers. Only questions.
Q. The fantastical element employed here is an unusual one, that of haunting a pair of running shoes. What was the inspiration behind using this particular technique?
This story actually began as an entry in a writing contest based on a prompt. If I recall correctly, the prompt was a photograph of a pair of running shoes dangling from a wire, the sort of thing you see all over America. I looked at the photograph and wondered where the shoes had come from and how they had gotten there, and the story simply followed.
Q. Giang's fate is heartbreaking and then uplifting. I'm currently reading your collection The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, and I've noticed that you're quite adept at turning a plot in a very unexpected (and typically compassionate) direction. Is this a conscious decision when you're crafting a short story, to subvert your readers' expectations?
The only reader I have in mind when I write is myself. Every story I write, in some sense, is an argument with myself: about what is beautiful; what is true; what is the point of being alive and aware and thinking and moving; what is a story; what is a good story; what is a good story that makes me care and makes me weep.
I don't think I try to subvert reader expectations. I work hard to satisfy my own expectations.
Q. Which authors either from Southeast Asia or writing about Southeast Asia do you enjoy reading? Could you give examples of particular works?
Space limitation means that I can't list everyone I should, so I'll just give a few examples. I'm reading through S.P. Somtow's Dragon's Fin Soup right now, and it's fantastic. Colorful images and musical prose weave tales that are at once lush and stark in their beauty. I also really like the works of many Singaporean or Singapore-based writers like J.Y. Yang, Joyce Chng, Stephanie Ye, Victor Fernando R. Ocampo, and others. LONTAR is a great venue for getting a sense of the exciting work being done by Southeast Asian writers.
Q. Shameless self-promotion time: what is next on the publication horizon for Ken Liu?
The biggest project I'm working on right now is the third book in the Dandelion Dynasty series. I have lots of ideas that still need to be distilled into a manageable plot. The second book in that series (and the first sequel to The Grace of Kings), titled The Wall of Storms, will be coming out from Saga Press in October of 2016 (and it's bigger and better in every way, with even more intrigue and silkpunk technology!).
In August, Death's End, my translation of the third and concluding volume in Liu Cixin's Three-Body trilogy, will be released by Tor Books. Fans of the series will then see why this is my favorite volume in the series.
Finally, in November, Tor Books will publish my collection of translated Chinese SF, Invisible Planets. This, the first English-language commercial anthology focused on contemporary short-form Chinese SF, will contain award-winning stories by such luminaries as Liu Cixin, Chen Qiufan, Xia Jia, Hao Jingfang, and others.
I also have a few stories in anthologies edited by Jonathan Strahan, Gardner Dozois, and others coming out later this year.
To find out more about my plans, readers can go to my web site and/or sign up for my newsletter.


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Perefect weekend for a hang if anyone wants to join. Wil be on private land in creola alabama
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Perefect weekend for a hang if anyone wants to join. Wil be on private land in creola alabama
Will be campin in creola al this weekend if anyon wants to join. Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com and I can give directions
HOD hang? I am free for a reschedule anytime after next weekend. Mardi Gras balls lined up through then
That would be cool. Blakely is ok... but way too overpriced when compared to other parks. Luckily now that hunting season is over I have private land in Creola Alabama I can camp on for free anytime...
If anyone wants to hang down this way anytime soon let me know. Want to try my new suspension out
This is my take on the SLS. I like the base suspension on the original but I am going to use biners to tree straps. I also used a adjustable ridge line from the whoopieslings store instead of using...
Thanks for the offer of the map. I probably won't need one actually. going with a group that have paddled it many times. My wife and I just wanted to hang instead of being in a tent like everyone else
Any of ya'll been to the Bankhead National Forrest? I was looking at going on a trip with USA and I was looking at the rules. Of course they have rules about damaging trees would of course could be...
Rain finally cleared. I might hang at Blakely for the night just to get out
I was about to say the chance saturday is 60%. No chance is going all the way there for it to storm. For some reason I am no longer getting notifications from the site so sorry for the delay
I agree. Make the call Thursday. I don't wanna be stuck under a tarp either
and the weather is looking like it may do just that
Anybody have an exact address on the campgrounds so I can find it that weekend. Otherwise I have no clue where I am going
Well I am ready. I have a bunch of firewood in my truck that I need to get split but seeing it shouldn't be cold it should be enough for us to cook on and such. Looking forward to this
Lets keep our fingers crossed for the rain chance to move on out of the forecast for that weekend
Also check on how much it will be per person if you don't mind
Well hopefully we are good to go. Just need to verify the week of or so and we're set. Ready to meet some of you guys
If we are looking for a particular site we need to look. Taylo, if you will check on that place and see. I would but I don't know the area or that park at all. Would hate to go up there and it...
We just need to verify that they are ok with us hanging.. or have someone verify that they have had no problems hanging there
Yes that is still the weekend we are shooting for (hopefully the weather cooperates) Are we still shooting for conecuh forrest?
Ill be at Blakely Friday and Saturday. You won't be able to miss me. Ill be out hanging with my cheap walmart silver tarp over me. Gotta to invest in a better one. If you want PM me and I will give...
I will be at Blakely all weekend if anyone does feel like getting out. Looks like the rain chances are going away but I wanna stick somewhat close to home in case
I agree. I noticed the chance of rain on saturday as well. And we all know a 30% chance in mobile is like guaranteeing it will rain. How would everyone feel about the weekend of the 21,22,and 23rd of...
I love mine. its holds odds and ends at night while I sleep
Just gotta check the finances to be sure. Applying for grad school aint cheap
Like the sound of that. how far from mobile? I haven't had to much of a condensation problem with my setup thankfully.
Im ok with wherever
Would definitely be interested in that. I have heard they have some pavilions out there to camp on. Could be mistaken
They are open year round but I did find out they do not allow anything to be attached to trees. Including hammocks
I kinda doubt it but ill check. I figured they would be open year round like blakely
I really don't know. All I know is there is normal campground style camping and they have something called backwoods camping. Gotta hike 10-15 minutes in. The info on that in one their website
Anyone else down for next weekend at chikasabouge?
Is it possible to use a Whoopie Slings Adjustable ridge line with my stock setup. Not really to make the jump to a new suspension yet. Could I put the two loops on the stock carabiners?
Well if anyone wants to join me and chickasabouge next weekend feel free to get ahold of me
If anyone is interested I'm join to be hitting up chicasabouge or blakely weekend after New Years
any work from the Old St Stephens people?
I love it. I do believe i would want one of these as well
Only reason I knew that is I took a Anthropology class this semester and they went over their dig up there. I am excited about a group hang. If we want to do other hangs I have access to private...
USA has had a bunch of crews out there during the summers too
Even better. Good excuse to bring my kayak
Sounds like a plan. Im thinking of trying to shoot mid-jaruary if we have another mild weekend like this. I have never been up to Old St Stephens. A lot of hiking and other opportunities up that way?
The more the merrier
Taylo if you could look into working something out with old St. Stephens that would be great. Just let us know
Agreed. If we could hang someone on Dauphin Island that would be cool but theres not a lot of places. If we can get a place nailed down we can figure out a place we'll work on a date. Ill probably be...
I saw mention of a group hang in another post and would like to get one together down here in lower alabama. The temps today were in the 70's and have been dying to hang with others. If we can get...
I did the bartram trail and the mounds back in October or November. Gotta love that you can paddle down here well into December
Who would be interested in setting up another Mobile area hang. I have buddies I camp with but not many fellow hangers. If anyone would be interested let me know... These nice 70's outside make me...
I picked it up from one of Shug's videos but a pad underneath you can do wonders. I was hanging the same weekend. i had a cheap Coleman 0-20 mummy bag (Synthetic of course). I had the pad underneath...
Im in for sure. I am new to hanging and wouldn't mind trying a different setup than my ENO
I'm looking to replace my suspension but its not that bad. Unless I was going on a long backpacking trip the weight isn't that bad


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Hi Dr.,I was just diagnosed with HIV and HCV. My HIV Dr. put me on Combivir and Sustiva. I have read that AZT can cause thymidine analog and lead to lipoatrophy and ,or lipohypertrophy is this only when the AZT is combined with D4t or could this happen with AZT in other combinations like in combivir? I have also read that new drugs like Truvada are less likely to cause this, is this true? My next question is about Sustiva, in the meds handout that the drug store gave me I read that it could cause abnormal body fat distribution. I have not chosen to tell my friends or family as of yet about my diagnoses, am I going to become a walking HIV billboard if I continue this med combo? PLEASE HELP
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It is true that Truvada is less likely than Combivir to cause adverse events and this is one of the reasons for the major shift away from Combivir. Sustiva is not particularly known for producing abnormal body fat and is actually less of a culprit than protease inhibitors or thymidine analogues in this regard. Based on the recent trial data showing better results with Truvada over Combivir it makes sense to discuss a switch with your doctor. Good luck and thanks for posting.
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- Siderocapsa is also a genus of iron bacteria in the family Siderocapsaceae.
Siderocausa (Σιδηρόκαυσα), Sidirokafsia (Σιδηροκαυσία), Sidrekapsi, Sidre kapsi, Sidre qapsi, Sidrekaisi, Sidrekapisi, or Siderocapsa was a Byzantine silver and gold mine and Ottoman mint east of Thessaloniki.
It was located in northeastern Chalcidice, in a group of twelve villages later called the Mademochoria (< Turkish maaden 'mine' + Greek χωριά 'villages'), including Stratoniki and Stagira.[1]
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The mint was active from about 1530 to the 18th or perhaps the 19th century, and produced silver akçe and gold sultani.[2] For the sultani, it was one of the three main mints, along with Cairo and Istanbul.
- O. Davies, "Ancient Mines in Southern Macedonia", The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 62 (Jan.-Jun., 1932), p. 140 doi:10.2307/2843882
- Sevket Pamuk, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire, Cambridge, 2000, ISBN 0-521-44197-8.
- Speros Vryonis, Jr., "The Question of the Byzantine Mines", Speculum 37:1:13-14 (Jan., 1962) doi:10.2307/2850595
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