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Trick or Treat! Free Kindle Books!

Posted by A. Jarrell Hayes on October 31, 2012 at 9:40am

Greetings and salutations!

In the spirit of Halloween, I’m giving readers a treat without the trick. During today and tomorrow, I will have three of my titles for free on the Kindle. These books are:

The Laroarian Conflict - An adventure fantasy set in the kingdom of Laroar, which is in a civil war over control of the vacant throne. When two teens, Logan and Mary Wallace, help one of the injured combatants, they embark upon a quest that will take them across the land and make them targets for the opposing armies. Logan and Mary soon discover that no good deed goes unpunished. (Free Days: 10/31/12 – 11/1/12)

“Swordbreaker” - ”He had believed peace only lived at the tip of a sword.” A warlord turned pacifist must face the consequences of his bloody past. *This is a short story. Included in the e-book are extended excerpts of the novelsCrowning of the Good King and The Laroraian Conflict.* (Free Day: 10/31/12)

Heart and Soul of a Thinker - This collection is full of poems chronicling the triumph and tragedy of humanity. In a world where differences are emphasized, this collection is universal because it simplistically relates the common threads that bind us as a species. The collection as a whole connects life, poetry, dreams, love, space, and time into one circle. There are speculative poems in this collection, featuring poems about sea monsters, dragons, and space travel. (Free Day: 11/1/12)

These ebooks are free on the days listed. Don’t hesitate to download them. Please share with family, friends, co-workers and on social media. Thanks! And enjoy.

Words = Life,

A. Jarrell Hayes

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Discover WILLIAM HAYASHI'S "DISCOVERY: Volume I of The Darkside Trilogy"

Posted by Penelope on October 31, 2012 at 1:30pm

"Discovery" Volume I of Wiliam Hayashi's Darkside Trilogy is a riveting, even-paced Science Fiction mystery novel that opens on a young scientist's discovery of a previously unidentified asteroid hurtling toward earth. At the same time the FBI is made aware of several unsolved missing persons cases beginning as far back as the 1960's where nearly 2000 U.S. citizens have simply vanished. Half-way across the globe an advanced aircraft of unknown origin is shot down over the Middle East. The story follows the threads that tie these people and incidents together as they become the focus of government power-brokers, and where national security concerns seek to compel the commodification of scientific discovery to serve military, political and/or industrial purposes. Set against the backdrop of a period 40-some odd years after the Civil Rights movement in a fictionalized alternate U.S., the novel pointedly addresses issues of race, class, gender and educational stereotypes as they relate to career, loyalty, friendship, love, the pursuit of happiness and freedom in the burgeoning Space Age.

The novel is steeped in science and scientific terminology but gratefully made accessible to those who have long forgotten their last physics course. The author, William Hayashi's style is methodical and procedural. He writes with exacting detail which is either a minus or a plus depending upon the reader's preferences. Because this is a mystery novel, early on I found myself sometimes thrown off-track by the author's focus on mundane details wondering whether these were important to the storyline. It became clear, however, as I read on that the details were simply atmospheric and not relevant to the plot which allowed me to consume the 500 plus pages in about 3 days. The book contains some "adult" situations. The sexual depictions are intense, somewhat graphic but written in the vein of adult modern romance which was infinitely suitable for the characters and the plotline.

The final section of the book is a sneak peek of Chapter 1 of Volume II of the Darkside Trilogy entitled, "Conception." "Conception" appears to be a prequel to "Discovery" providing the reader with historical reference and introducing the reader to the players who created the technology behind the first novel. I look forward to its release and enthusiastically recommend "Discovery."

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Given, Wanted, Solution...

Posted by Reginald L. Goodwin on October 31, 2012 at 3:00pm

I was taught this outline at North Carolina A & T and still use it to set up problems.

I actually do it before I've read any chapter. It's almost a mental prep: I assume the problems are solvable, then I tackle them.

Some problems are almost unbearable: I opted not to go to our homecoming due the impending Hurricane Sandy, which from previous experience with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita I could tell from Weather.com was going to be formidable.

I was concerned with my fraternity brother (our alumni chapter Polemarch) who was stalled in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania coming back from GHOE due to Sandy's wrath. He eventually made it to New York.

Stevens University is in Hoboken, NJ. It's where I'm taking my online class in Microelectronics and Photonics. I am attempting to contact the other registrants -- my "classmates" and the instructor. We're all professionals, working at full time jobs pursuing a Masters of Science degree. None of us imagined experiencing science - or, the ignorance thereof - in such harsh, graphic violence.

GIVEN: The most significant display of climate change and its dangers to date

WANTED: Your help

SOLUTION: Click the link below the logo

Donations: click here


I will get nothing from this, NOTHING, and canned goods are logistically impossible. As John Donne is often quoted, "I am involved with mankind." It is my hope as reader of this blog, you are too.
 
New Jersey News

 

Hopefully, all my classmates will check in. As soon as it is safe and clear, I will visit the campus; we will meet face-to-face, students and professor.


I have given, I'd appreciate those of you who read my postings give what you feel led to give. Thank you.

 

Site: Ready.gov

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Meet Dalziel the "Mystique"

Posted by Taj Sonchai on October 30, 2012 at 10:30pm

Dalziel is an ally if the Black Mau and Bast. Dalziel has telekinetic powers much like Jean Gray of the X-Men, but Dalziel can also manipulate the molecules in her body to shape shift. Dalziel is one force to be reckoned with. 

You'll meet her along with the other characters in the Black Mau Chronicles 12.12.12. Stay tuned!

Dalziel is illustrated by Jing Dizon

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Cost Of Denial...

Posted by Reginald L. Goodwin on October 30, 2012 at 4:20am

Hurricane Rita: estimated 4-5 billion.

Hurricane Irene: estimated 7-10 billion.

Hurricane Sandy: To Be Determined.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Carl Sagan

We've received a lot of calls: my sister and best friend from NC; my mother-in-law; my oldest son and my daughter-in-law from Oklahoma and Texas respectively. I've answered more than my share of thoughtful and appreciated Facebook updates. We're OK.

 

My youngest son called at 3:15 EST, which prompted me to ask why he was UP (2:15 CST). The news disturbed him and he was concerned about his parents. A price he has already paid, and now I pay as his concerns kept me awake.

 

As I blog this, 7.1 million people are without power on the east coast, 2.2 million in New Jersey. An explosion and fire at ConEdison has left downtown Manhattan dark. Sixteen people have lost their lives. Schools are closed all over NY state. The NYU Medical Center is being evacuated after backup generators failed. The Metro Transit Authority is saying this is the worst disaster in the 108 year history of the New York City subway system. Seven tunnels are flooded and the New York Stock Exchange remains closed for a second day.


We must be cunning, discerning on our choice in one week of Head of State. I have my opinion and my vote already decided. It has not been decided by dogma, prejudice or melanin: I self-identify politically as a logician, a proud member of the reality-based community.

The Venn diagram intersecting set between prophecy and predictive modeling is both are warnings: given for the listeners to take heed and change their course of action before probable disaster becomes all the more real and credible.

However, denial of reality has an associated cost as I've listed above. We cannot long afford this cost. We cannot on the one hand want to compete toe-to-toe with countries that don't have our internal struggles, our inane politics, our sound bite attention spans; dogma and sloganeering, and expect in the end to be successful for very long. Empires after all, have lifespans.

Science, to further quote Carl Sagan "is a way of thinking," and so is believing the earth is 9,000 years old while holding a position in the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. One works towards a solution to real-world problems; the other an associated, ever-inflating cost.

 

Whatever your choice next Tuesday, we'll all live in the real aftermath (and price) of that choice.

 

"What's past is prologue." Tempest, Act 2, Scene I

 

Site: Ready.gov
The Nation John Nichols: Disaster Relief

 
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This Is What It Looks Like...

Posted by Reginald L. Goodwin on October 29, 2012 at 6:30am

 

In Austin, Texas I witnessed the caravans from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Interstates 10 and 45 packed headed towards Austin and Dallas respectively.


Houston received the first wave of fleeing masses of humanity from Louisiana. Churches and shelters in the three cities put up cots and sleeping bags as fast as they could; clothing and canned foods were donated; homes opened. We were brothers, sisters, cousins, friends: suddenly any differences were rendered utterly meaningless: "Vanity of vanities" said Solomon. I became used to life in "tornado alley," and the Texas colloquial phrase of "hunkering down," but nothing like shelves emptied at the grocery stores; sudden influxes of students from 9th Ward NOLA.

Moving from Texas to New York last year, my wife and I experienced Hurricane Irene, which was described at the time a once-in-a-lifetime event as far as its power (hurricanes and tropical storms have affected NY before). Sandy has now proven that comforting logic wrong, coupling winds, flooding, rain, and possibly tornadoes and snowstorms. Last year, the one and only snowstorm happened on Halloween, downing powerlines made heavy by wet snow caught on autumn leaves and tree branches that snapped under the great unexpected weight, leaving families without lights; heat. We took in friends that lived in Hyde Park due to that: their children had an increased commute to school when it started again. In Irene's aftermath: Insect populations flourished that in times past should have passed on in seasonal death. Our power blinked in and out before it settled then, but I'm not so sure we'll be as lucky. I hope we are.

WE WILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS: soberly using critial thinking skills, (which, as a nation we show ourselves remarkably bereft), not sound bites and slogans. We have lawyers as administrators of the republic: lawyers argue. Eight of the top nine government posts in China are held by engineers and scientists according to Forbes. Accordingly, they will move to economic prominence, no dominence in 2016, or at least by the 2020s. Narry a tax exempt creation museum on the Sino land mass.

Perhaps it's too late to solve it, and the carbon producers can revel in their profits merrily, having obfuscated truth and fact in our elected officials on science committees; literally running out the clock until...we are here.

 

And, great wealth only matters: when you have a functional planet to spend it on.


Site: Climate Change Refugees

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I Am An AFROFuturist

Posted by Stafford Battle on October 24, 2012 at 11:30pm

I am an AFROFuturist. And, I boldly state that I make my own definitions. I can define myself and the conditions that I thrive in.  It does not bother me if other people describe the term differently or take offense at what I choose to believe and promote. In fact, I welcome and embrace the diversity of definitions.

I am an AFROFuturist.  Don't label me as a Moslem, Hindu, Jew, Christian or Atheist. Organized belief systems that are rigid and unable to adapt can be  dangerous and lead us down the path of extinction. Ask T-Rex. However, true AFROFuturists can open our minds to new paths of survival and life satisfaction and the perpetuation of our kind. Therefore, the AFROFuturistic vision is wide and welcomes multiple interpretations and new pathways of thought. It is not imprisoned by words or canvas or song or movement.

As an AFROFuturist, I believe that racism is insanity. Social classes are a wicked delusion. We all are born naked and at the end of our lives we leave accumulated earthly riches behind for others to fight over.  Our truth wealth are the contributions that we offered to society during our sojourn that will hopefully enrich the lives of others. We are all one race, one species, one culture, subject to the whims of a Universe that could eradicate us all in a bright solar moment. No one survives a Super Nova. It merely recreates us into new forms to start over again. But until that event we must strive to be the best that we can.

I am an AFROFuturist. This is what I believe:

1) We must mold a future that embraces all of us
2) Education and learning is "cradle to grave" and critical to our survival
3) Our greatest wealth resides in the people who have the least
4) We have the knowledge and the power to protect the planet and all the creatures that live on it
5) God is not above us, God grows within us, if we allow and listen!

I am an AFROFuturist. Join me!!

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Slip-Sliding Away...

Posted by Reginald L. Goodwin on October 26, 2012 at 8:11am

If you ease up on a pencil, does it slide more easily? Sure. But maybe not if the tip is sharpened down to nanoscale dimensions. A team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has discovered that if graphite (the material in pencil "lead") is sticky enough, as measured by a nanoscale probe, it actually becomes harder to slide a tip across the material's surface as you decrease pressure—the exact opposite of our everyday experience.

 

Technically, this leads to an effectively "negative coefficient of friction," something that has not been previously seen, according to team leader Rachel Cannara. Graphite, Cannara explains, is one of a special class of solids called "lamellar" materials, which are formed from stacks of two-dimensional sheets of atoms. The sheets are graphene, a single-atom-thick plane of carbon atoms that are arranged in a hexagonal pattern. Graphene has a number of exotic electrical and material properties that make it attractive for micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems with applications ranging from gas sensors and accelerometers to resonators and optical switches.

 

NIST:
Slip Sliding Our Way: At the Nanoscale, Graphite Can Turn Friction Upside Down

Had to. SmileyIt's Friday to boot:

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Boldly Go...

Posted by Reginald L. Goodwin on October 24, 2012 at 7:57am
Image from site

Roddenberry unwittingly unleashed a phenomenon in which Star Trek enthusiasts became a veritable cult, numbering physicists, aerospace engineers, housewives, senators, children, teachers and intellectuals among its devotees (affectionately known as "Trekkies," and later, "Trekkers"). The show went outside television to win science fiction's coveted Hugo Award and then spawned an animated spin-off, as well as a series of feature films.

 

While making Star Trek, Roddenberry's reputation as a futurist began to grow. His papers and lectures earned him high professional regard as a visionary. He spoke on the subject at NASA meetings, the Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress gatherings, and top universities.

 

Star Trek was so wildly popular that it has since become the first television series to have an episode preserved in the Smithsonian, where an 11-foot model of the U.S.S. Enterprise is also exhibited on the same floor as the Wright brother's original airplane and Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis." In addition to the Smithsonian honors, NASA's first space shuttle was named Enterprise, in response to hundreds of thousands of letters from fans demanding that the shuttle be named after the beloved starship.

 

Site: Gene Roddenberry bio

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Due to Hulk-Smash, Dr. Banner kindly asks for donations.

Posted by Djadja N Medjay on October 23, 2012 at 11:38pm

Due to Hulk-Smash, Dr. Banner kindly asks for donations of .99 cents to his paypal account (skhmnb@yahoo.com) so that he may continue his Afro-Futuristic experiments and repair his laptop screen. Doing so will prevent possible Gamma Ray leakage from his old Emac. Only 60 kind hearted individuals are needed. In return, Hulk promise to take anger-management classes, drink Kava Kava and smash Loki. SHARE, TAG and RE-POST.

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A FREE Gift to My Friends at BSFS

Posted by Stafford Battle on October 20, 2012 at 9:31pm

This has been a great year! I have so much I want to reveal to you but I can't, not just yet. Contracts. Lawyers. Etc.  So, please take advantage of this offer now, b4 it changes.  Download  "Rage of the Mamba". Be sure to comment and review with links to your books and web sites. We need to support each other. I will add links to you all on my websites. I will mention you at my speaking engagements.

I really appreciate my Black speculative fiction family for helping me to get this far. And I really appreciate the Black Science Fiction Society  for promoting our works. We need this!! We must support this. 

Hollywood, Hot tubs, limos!!! Everybody is welcome to join in. But I digress.

On November 5, 2012; they will probably tell me to stop this offer :<(

 

Go to:
 

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/236580

 

Promotional price: $0.00
Coupon Code: RY87Q
Expires: November 3, 2012

This will be a blast!!!

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"Meet Illustrator Jing Dizon"

Posted by Taj Sonchai on October 21, 2012 at 12:06pm

Meet Jing Dizon: Illustrator for The Black Mau Chronicles and I.G.L.E.A.^RE by EL Harvey

Jing Dizon agreed to take on the challenge of working with Tiger Taj Sonchai about a year ago. She was a fan of Taj’s music client Desert Dream Records recording artist LiTaL. Taj was a fan of Jing’s art. The correspondence turned into a working relationship. Together via the computer the two developed the visual likenesses for the characters of  ”The Black Mau Chronicles” and “I.G.L.E.A.^RE”. 

So, we’d like for you to meet the woman who gave the Black Mau his face.  Who is this woman Jing Dizon?

I’m a self taught artist and a God fearing woman, though I don’t consider myself a professional illustrator, or artist for that matter yet. I’m still a work in progress. Ever since I was a child, I never dreamed of anything but being an artist.

In my heart I want to share my talent with the world and use my talent to glorify God.  God has given me the seed and it has blossomed. I want to take it to the next level.

I have always been passionate about the arts and entertainment. I like being behind the scenes. I’m not a people pleaser. I believe that in order for you to create things and make things happen from a creative perspective you have to have influence and the respect of the people you work with. I know how to take sound advice and follow the lead when necessary. But when I know what I know, I take the ball and run with it. I think that’s what Taj likes about me. He has ideas awesome, even some of them brilliant. I help make those ideas pop! We are a team. 

I’m from Manila, Philippines, born and raised and I’ve been drawing since I was seven years old. Back then it was a hobby that I enjoyed. It was an on again off again thing. Even now I don’t have a lot of time to draw, but I steal my moments to do it.

I met Taj through Talent House. Taj is better known from the music business endeavors. But It was actually LiTaL, his client through Talent House, who brought us together. She liked my work and she said that her manager was a science fiction writer and he was looking for an illustrator. Now the rest is history and here we are.

The Black Mau project is very challenging for me. I’m not a comic illustrator really, but I’m up for the challenge. Most of my work will be in the comic book I.G.L.E.A.^RE.  I believe I’ll have a few Illustrations in the novel, but It’s just another facet of art for my arsenal. I don’t want to limit myself, thus I am a work in progress. Taj told me once that what makes me unique is that there is only one me. Be the best me I can be. I love him like a  big brother!

The Black Mau and I.G.L.E.A.^RE is very unique science fiction and will appeal to sci~fi and comic book fanatics everywhere! I want to go to Comicon!

I think opportunities are growing for people in the arts in the Philippines, but like anywhere else you have to be tenacious. 

I’m trying to master what I call “Semi~Realism”. I don’t know what else to call it. But I want to master it. Maybe I can use it in the comics? I’d like to work with other comic writers I think it would be a great opportunity and fun.

I’m answering questions from a list of questions El Harvey sent to me. This final one asks if I’m married? No, not yet but I hope to be one day. If This certain guy I know would ask…Who knows?

Thank you for letting me take a little of your time. -Jing

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Short Story 14-Purple Dreams by Robert Trujillo

Posted by Robert Trujillo on October 17, 2012 at 5:24pm

Purple dreams
and hot dish water steam
the walk to the corner store
its mean

The way I see it
aint the way it is
a world of positive reflection
for me, ronnie, and her kids

We got feelings too
and sometimes I'll just spray it
I look for it hard everytime at the billboards&nbsp
but they dont ever say it

Our voice is missing
So we decide to put it in
bet Rapunzel and Kareem from down the block will be inspired
let the 7 train imagination begin

More from Robert Trujillo aqui carnal.

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Cyber Road Dog...

Posted by Reginald L. Goodwin on October 16, 2012 at 8:45am


While it takes just a few keystrokes and mouse clicks to post a tweet on Twitter or "friend" someone on Facebook, it may require thousands of lines of code to accomplish the task.


Dog, a new programming language, could make it easier and more intuitive to write all sorts of social applications—anything from peer-to-peer question-and-answer sites to online dating. And because Dog incorporates natural language, this may make it easier for newbies to learn to code, too.


MIT Media Lab professor Sep Kamvar, who developed Dog with the help of some graduate students, hopes to release the language in a private beta version in the next few months, and offer a public release of it in the spring.

 

Technology Review: New Programming Language Makes Social Coding Easier

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Stumbling toward December

Posted by Jan S on October 15, 2012 at 2:14pm

That's about how my life has been going since February. Depression sucks. The meds are working, though, and I don't find it so difficult to get things done. Still far to go on that road, but making progress is encouraging. PES is still on the back burner, not completely abandoned. I need to get a biz plan written up before I can move forward with it, in any case. Hope all here at BSFS are having prosperous times in 2012.

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Naming Characters

Posted by Alex U. Njoku on October 15, 2012 at 2:21pm

I really have a hard time when it comes to names for my characters. No I'm not talking about all my charcters from the main ones to the ones that only make one appearance. I'm just talking about the main characters, the ones we are supposed to be following. My Problem mostly stems from the incredibly inflexible naming convention that I use whenever I have to name characters.

For example, lets say that I had to give a name for this warrior like character. First I have to take into consideration the personality of the character I'm creating. Most warrior type characters usually have that lone- wolf serious-faced personality (E.G. Sauske from Naruto, Hiei from YuYu Hakusho) while other characters have that have that fierce joy for fighting; A contrast to the later type.

Next I have to think of name that means something close to that personality or character. This can be done in two ways.

      1. Depending on the character; I think of name that matches the roughness of it's personality. For instance! My Character; Jyssica's name uses a hard c at the end of her name. Now I'm not an English Major or anything but if you have a hard constant (I think that's how you spell it... AGAIN NOT an English Major) doesn't make the name sound rougher. Well in Jyssica's case it kinda works, seeing how she's kinda rough herself. Now If I named her something like Dawn, it wouldn't really have the same effect. A Dawn (like the ones in the morning) signify the start of a new day, and while the may be empowering they are also calm... And Jyssica is nowhere near calm.

      2. Finding names that means exactly what I'm looking for via the internet. This is my last resort when I can't think of anything for a name and honestly the results are damn near impressive. Honestly if you type up "names by meaning" in Google you will find hundreds of entries in general and come out with at least 10 name ideas for your specific characters. So If I could do that, does this make the process easy right? ... NOPE! Because when it comes to names I'm just damn picky!

I want the name of character to fit that character perfectly, to reflect the personality and struggle that character is going through. So when I have a 6ft tall, war experienced samurai kung-fu robot panda and I name him "Bill" I'm just gonna keep thinking to myself "Wow! that name sucks!"

What are Your naming conventions for Characters?

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Bullies and Citizens...

Posted by Reginald L. Goodwin on October 14, 2012 at 6:34am

 

Children at Risk of Being Bullied

 

Generally, children who are bullied have one or more of the following risk factors:
 

  • Are perceived as different from their peers, such as being overweight or underweight, wearing glasses or different clothing, being new to a school, or being unable to afford what kids consider “cool”

  • Are perceived as weak or unable to defend themselves

  • Are depressed, anxious, or have low self esteem

  • Are less popular than others and have few friends

  • Do not get along well with others, seen as annoying or provoking, or antagonize others for attention

  • However, even if a child has these risk factors, it doesn’t mean that they will be bullied.
 

Nerd (Google): 1. A foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious: "one of those nerds who never asked a girl to dance". 2. An intelligent, single-minded expert in a particular technical discipline or profession. Synonyms: fool, booby, goof.

 

The very definitions - I noticed - might as well be bullying too.

 

Reminds me of being bullied for liking science:

 

"When you have an interest outside of sports, a talent for science, math, writing, thinking, literature, you know who 'Jacques Cousteau' is, and up on his weekly undersea show, you might get labeled: weird or “white boy.” Cute girls ignore you, your solace being books, tools, a microscope; a telescope and a junior chemistry set.

 

"Making some academic attainment, you end up in areas where you are “the one” or “the first” to arrive. That’s not entirely true, just that a concentration of members in the National Society of Black Physicists or National Society of Black Engineerstypically happens at conventions or local chapters; not companies. Getting on elevators illicit purses shifting; catching cabs proves difficult despite lacking any criminal record."

 

Sadly, I know bullying quite well from personal experience. I recall receiving a head butt in line in the 5th grade - I almost blacked out; being choked with a purple rubber hose in a ninth grade art class - I turned blue and my assailant laughed hysterically even as he was being escorted away by authorities. Both gentlemen (and I use that term loosely) thought their acts were "funny," and I the derided fool, booby; goof. Hence, my - and apparently a lot of nerds - attraction to and participation in martial arts.

 

I also see it played out in our incalcitrant governance and its inability to make reasoned, logical decisions. So much for The Enlightenment. We'd prefer apotheosized Founding Fathers, mythologized historical political figures, and the only thing they can agree on across the aisle: pay raises (for themselves).

 

Yet, as a nation we want to remain "number one" technologically. "Magic thinking" won't do it.

 

"What has happened is that in the last 20 years, America has changed from a producer to a consumer. And all consumers know that when the producer names the tune...the consumer has got to dance. That's the way it is. We used to be a producer – very inflexible at that, and now we are consumers and, finding it difficult to understand. Natural resources and minerals will change your world. The Arabs used to be in the 3rd World. They have bought the 2nd World and put a firm down payment on the 1st one. Controlling your resources will control your world."

B Movie, Gil Scott-Heron

 

It's concerning also we cannot see what damage -- individually and nationally -- bullyings' myriad forms are taking on us as a whole.

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