This is where Randal L. Schwartz's unpublished ficlets (drafts, get it?) would show up. You need to be logged in to see drafts (assuming counts you as an editor)!
I’ve been a professional technical writer for three decades, having written 250 magazine articles and contributed to a dozen best-selling books under my own name, and a shelf-full of books as writer-for-hire before that. (You might know me as “Just another Perl hacker”.)
But I’ve read (and watched) a lot of SF over the years, and have a few stories inside me to tell. Having been a guest at Dragon*Con the past few years, I’ve bumped into other authors and been encouraged to try my hand at the slightly-more-fictional technical writing. In preparation for that, I’m posting little snippets here to get feedback and practice at shifting from my own comfortable book/column style to the slightly less familiar narrative style.
FEEDBACK IS MOST WELCOME, and very appreciated. Please be brutal.
Favorite author
James P Hogan seems to have the style I can most easily approach