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Deep within the bowels of the Internet, past decrepit Geo-Cities  archives, below Live Journal post regarding unwavering love for Hansen, tucked in a forgotten corner of a low-baud rate server, there exists a lively classifieds bulletin board.

However, this is no ordinary "missed connections", "soiled futon " market place. This is market for wonders, for forbidden objects found where brave men fear to tread. It is a market for outdated technological marvels, arcane works, eldritch objects from a beyond the borders of the ordinary.

The denizens of these boards engage in a brisk trade, seeking to acquire or unload nameless horrors from the Deep, insane robots from a nightmarish future, hire teams of blind ninja assassins, or just adopt a couple of genetic monstrosities.

Below is just a taste of the terrifying and degenerate ads that populate these boards.

Check here, or the Moorsgate Media Twitter feed for more Chaos Classifieds.

Are you ready to be immersed into another world without having to imagine too hard? Here we go.........

First you need a suitable Android device with a camera.

Second you need an app called "Paper Artist", yes it is a sort of kids app.

Third you fire up device, app and holding the screen before your eyes hit the camera button.

The view screen is the world you know through various filters. Talk about rose colored glasses. Oh, get your notebook ready the story lines will start popping into your head as you examine the world you thought you knew as though it were a sketch or a negative or old news paper. The drawings move through 3d space, sometimes shadows are gone, sometimes details are missing. Realism is highly overrated.

Realism speaks but nothing is left to explain. The illustration has 1000 words minimum, You will look again because the unsaid story is so compelling.

Don't take my word for it, go experience it for your self. Tape your USB cam to your shoulder or shirt pocket. Put your view screen in a head mount. Walk through the filter rendered world. Make a voice print of your discoveries in real-time, ha ha ha ha!!!!!

World Science Festival: The Calculus of Catching Fly Balls

The deadline for Dealer/Vendor applications for Detcon1 is January 27, so get those in if you want to be in the room!  

See http://detcon1.org/exhibits/dealers/ for the application and more information.

This event is going to be at the Renaissance Center right in Downtown Detroit. It is the 2014 North American Science Fiction Convention -- people will be attending from all over the country. We expect an attendance of at least 1500 people, including editors and publishers.

SCI-FI FOR WORLD-BUILDING & SURVIVAL at the Allied Media Conference 2014, June 19~22, 2014 (info via Tumblr)

This year the Sci-Fi Track has returned in the form of the Liberation Technologies track, which hopes to use SF (science/speculative fiction) as a tool in fighting oppression, and builds off past tracks and movement building, such as the Science and Social Movements track and the Octavia Butler and Emergent Strategy sessions.

The post-apocalypse is here and real, where ancient and varied cultures and technologies have been erased in the name of Empire and Progress. What do we do when access to memory/the past has been standardized, and the potential to manifest and (dis)embody the joyous unknown has been shamed and left behind?

This track seeks sci-fi and speculative themed session proposals that disrupt, deconstruct, and reframe oppressive mainstream media networks, narratives, and representation by using sci-fi possibilities to reorient existence.

Appropriate themes and activities include:
Afro-futurism, healing practices, bodies and abilities (paranormal, dis- or otherwise), storytelling, emergence, meme-making, imaginative world-building, fan-fiction, magical real[ness], DIY sci-fi, intersectionality, collective memory, speculative cities, exploding binaries, digital places/cyberspaces, redefining science/technology, technologies that are incomplete, gestural & in process, recuperation of technologies both ancient and contemporary, mythology, affect and public regulation of feeling, ∞.

We explicitly seek to welcome & center the #libtech track around:
People of color, black people, trans* people (transwomen, non-binary trans, transmen), youth, native people, fat and abundant people, surveilled people, dis-abled people, mixed people, non-people, and the communities that exist around the lot of us in all our different places and experiences.

Read the FAQs for Submiting AMC Sessions here for questions about session formats more. Please send comments, and questions to our AMPtalk page or to libtechamc@gmail.com.

»> Submit your Call for Proposals to our Google form here.

Deadline for submissions is March 1st, 2014.

Hello everyone!

The campaign for our, “Earth Squadron” Movie has been underway for a couple weeks now and we have made significant gains on the campaign. We still have a long way to go and we would humbly ask that If you like Black Sci-Fi, if we have purchased your books or contributed to your campaign to please support us now.  This is serious business. We often ask why we do not have this or why we do not have that, it is because we have to make it ourselves and support others when they venture to do positive things for our community.

This project is just the tip of the iceberg. We plan to use this as a means to open the door for future 3D, cartoon and live action projects.  I am asking for your support by donating what you can afford toward getting this movie done. Our team is fired up and ready to make this film a reality! Our community and children in particularly deserved more positive images and role models to emulate. Be a part of making that happen now.

Click here for more info and to support today:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/earth-squadron-movie-project

Sincerely,
Jarvis Sheffield, M.Ed.
Administrator

LINK:  http://glossi.com/PenelopeFlynn/77789-other-sci-fi-mag-winter-1-2014

Source: Discovery link below

Discovery: Kugelblitz! Powering a Starship With a Black Hole
Jeff Lee, Icarus Interstellar
Harvard Abstracts: Geons, by John Wheeler
(Note: Dr. Wheeler taught at UT Austin, Texas)

It's important that you get your family involved in your writing process. If you're like me, then you have to actually work for a living. Also, if you're like me, you have a family. Both require a considerable amount of attention and thus, take away from the time you have to write on a daily basis. If you've read my previous post on setting writing goals, that's only half the picture. I've fallen way short of meeting mine simply because when I've been able to write has been sporadic at best.

Again, get your family involved. Work, you really can't do anything about unless you can set your own hours. But it would be to your benefit to create a schedule, discuss it with your family, make your adjustments, and then implement.

I've enclosed my Writing Schedule. The green are my blocks for writing, but that doesn't necessarily mean those are the only times I can write. I still use my smartphone when I walk the dog to write using Google Drive. And I tend to stay up later than my wife at times and I might steal a moment or two then.

Liked this post? Why not check out a book or two? A couple of them are free.

Enormous Craft Detected On Moon, The Secret Is Out (Photos)

At least one enormous object of unknown origin has been visually verified as having landed on our moon. As a result, on Wednesday, January 15, three Terrier-Orion rockets blasted off within a span of 20 seconds from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. EST (0600 to 1000 GMT) on hush-hush missions for the Department of Defense (DoD).

TRN has obtained photos of the unknown spacecraft and has an audio interview with an outside consultant from NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO) who confirms that for almost two years the U.S. government used the MacDonald Observatory in Texas to track the approach of two of these enormous objects. A year ago, in January 2013, the objects had gotten to within 200,000 miles of Mars when they suddenly vanished.

Realizing these two craft were approaching earth and might not be visible to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbital Camera (LROC) depending upon where they went, the Government reactivated the previously cancelled Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to be launched to the moon on September 6, 2013. It took almost 100 days for LADEE to be placed into proper lunar orbit. By December, 2013, both LADEE and the LROC found at least one of the two enormous objects had landed on the moon, in a crater the size of the City of Chicago.

All of this was kept secret until, quite by accident, the LROC images (which are generally made public) were uploaded to the publicly available GoogleMoon service, where intrepid users came upon the enormous object. Now, the whole world can see this "object" on the moon --- the secret is out.

Click here for the full story

Enormous Craft Detected On Moon, The Secret Is Out (Photos)

Can't wait until the walkers are moaning at your door? Try The Butterman Cometh. Only $0.99.

A new teaser trailer for The Walking Dead has been revealed - scroll down and click to watch. The 31-second-clip focuses on Andrew Lincoln's character Rick Grimes, as he tries to build morale among his fellow survivors following a confrontation with David Morrissey's The Governor. The zombie show is set to return from its mid-season break in the US on February 9. It was revealed in October last year that The Walking Dead had been renewed for a fifth season. It is currently the most-watched show in America among adults aged 18-49 and the premiere episode of season four drew a best ever audience of 16 million viewers.

Read more at http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/new-teaser-trailer-for-the-walking-dead-revealed/329544#J8pqUpLZXUk4oHE4.99

Check out Fleshbags, the 'Sickest. Zombies. Ever' according to Zombiephiles.com.

Credit: Link below

Science Daily:
Milky Way May Have Formed 'Inside-Out:' Gaia Provides New Insight Into Galactic Evolution

Just a quick update to the Kaizen app. 

Kaizen Text app has been updated with some bug fixes and some minor functionality upgrades.

the most important new feature is the addition of the Average number of words per sentence calculator. 

The Oxford Guide to Writing - provides that sentence variety is key to maintaining a overall effective style. The Guide provides a handy short cut by stating that sentences should be between 15 and 20 words long. Shorter and you run the risk of choppy statements. Longer, and you risk losing the reader in a sea of commas, semi-colons and adverbial phrases. Of course, different lengths, in the right pen, can make magic. However, it never hurts to evaluate your writing relative to some of the metrics the style mavens think are essential to good writing.

Simply enter your text into the Kaizen text field and see how it shakes out.  Use the Kaizen Text App here. 

Moorsgate Media 

On the bug list side, a bug that prevented the complete analysis of a text where there were words without syllables (such as made up words) has been fixed.

        Here's a snippet of things to come.  Aura, The Art of Winston Blakely is my first art book and

        its almost here.

         Chock full of goodies from all genres, Sci Fi, Horror, Sword and Soul, Humor, Pulp Adventures

          and Fine Arts.

          It has a special introduction by Jarvis Sheffield, creator of Black Science Fiction Society.com,

          so you know it must be good.  Thanks to William Hayashi for his fabulous interview on

          me, months ago... which by his wonderful inspiration that propel me to do this book.  I  had

         always wanted to do an artbook, but never felt the right motivation until that faithful interview.

           Its good when creative people inspire each other, makes for an excellent product.

              Now... in order of appearance...

                1. Kotas, The Dragon ( cover from Immortal Fantasy, created by Winston Blakely )

                2.   Midnight Phantom Strikes ( Black Pulp Hero from the 1930's, based on

                       the writings of Jemir Johnson

                3.   The Road  ( illustration from Leopard's Moon- illustrated tales of Sword and Soul

                       by Melvin Carter