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New entry Jun 21
Critter Notices
Network speeding up
I'm switching the connection over to a new, shiny 10X faster network because of all the load. There might be bits of downtime as your boxes learn new addresses and things. Should be brief. Let me know of any prolonged outages you see.
Preditors & Editors Changeover
With the very sad passing of Dave Kuzminski, who ran P&E, I've taken over the P&E duties. Lots of what I hope are improvements; check it out at pred-ed.com.
Critters Server is Dying has been Replaced
See important details here in my blog. Let me know if you find anything that isn't working right. (Manuscripts are now available for this week, FYI.)
Book Recommendation
THE SIGIL TRILOGY:
The universe is dying from within...
"Great stuff... Really enjoyed it." — SFWA Grandmaster Michael Moorcock
Announcing ReAnimus Press
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News
ReAnimus Acquires Advent!
ReAnimus Press is pleased to announce the acquisition of the legendary Advent Publishers! Advent is now a subsidiary of ReAnimus Press, and we will continue to publish Advent's titles under the Advent name. Advent was founded in 1956 by Earl Kemp and others, and has published the likes of James Blish, Hal Clement, Robert Heinlein, Damon Knight, E.E. "Doc" Smith, and many others. Advent's high quality titles have won and been finalists for several Hugo Awards, such as The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy and Heinlein's Children. Watch this space for ebook and print editions of all of Advent's current titles!
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The Craft of Writing Science Fiction that Sells by Ben Bova, best-selling author and six-time Hugo Award winner for Best Editor. (This is one of the books your ol' Critter Captain learned from himself, and I highly recommend it.)
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The Critters Queue
Submission files themselves are here.
Queue of manuscripts out or to be sent (dates are estimated,
depending on number of mss. sent out, which depends on number of
members; probabalistically, the end of the queue is usually about
a month away):
Title Author
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Week of 30-Jul-2014 (Crits due 6-Aug-2014):
SF The Ordeal, Chapters 1-3 [mpc] Conrad Steenkamp -#23940
SF The Twelve o'clock Boys Amanda H. Geard -#23941
SF Only Who is Left Julia Nolan -#23942
SF Hidden Color [@] Gio Clairval -#23943
SF Revenge Begins with Death revised Robert Harpold -#23944
SF Soul Peddling Down the Texas Byways Gary Goodson -#23945
F Heaven's Waiting Room has Lousy Magazines Elena Hayes -#23946
SF The Pro, Chapter 2 Richard Edwards -#23947
SF The SkinWalkers, Chapter 1 Debra Crichlow -#23948
SF The Fourth Law of Robotics 7-15 Charles Hand -#23949
H The Turning of the Key - Chapter 3 and 4 Wendy Salmon -#23950
F Keeper of the Crimson Blade, Prologue-Chapter 1 Erin Fitzgerald -#23951
SF Planar Ghosts Krystal Claxton -#23952
SF Glass Carnival, chapter 2 Gail Marsella -#23953
F A Dragon's Treasure Louise A. Postlethwaite -#23954
SF The Part They Stole Chris Countryman -#23955
SF The Automatic Writing Machine of UCBT James Brittain -#23956
H Outpost Ricardo Delacruz -#23957
Week of 6-Aug-2014 (Crits due 13-Aug-2014):
H Haunted: The Saga of a fallen hero chap 6 Naftali Deitsch
SF Five Days as Uberman, Prologue-Chapter 4 Nikhil Sekher
F All the Souls Like Candle Flames Vanessa Fogg
F The Moving Mountains : A Chilongua Tale Jeffrey Hall
SF The Geographer Liam King
H Melanie Explains It All Mary Elizabeth Thompson
F Price of Passage Russell de Grove
SF Act Natural Jeremy Draghi
SF John's Holiday Arol Bosut
F Breath of the Titans, part 1 Riley Amos Westbrook
F Shrouded Goddess, Ch 15+16 Patricia Moussatche
F My Lover's Skin Aleksandra Pantic
H The Invisible People Alex Maher
F Smalto Victoria Kalb
SF The Broken Sun Alex Harrison
SF Song of the Storm Frog Derrick Boden
F Reign of Fear, Chapter 1 Tiffany T. Allen
SF Bar and gril Tom Grayhorse
F Her Face Marian D Moore
SF Surrogate _Chapters 1-3_ Jeanne G'Fellers
Week of 13-Aug-2014 (Crits due 20-Aug-2014):
F Breaking the Spell Ed Kratz
F The King and The Sorceress Mike Olivson
SF The Time Skipper Jonathan Schwiebert
SF Six Gun Sunset Kristopher Horton
H Faceless M. B. Vujacic
H Never Trust a Hippie Matthew Weber
F Miss Silk and the Tomb of Menkare, Chapter 1 Alex Avrio
SF Quantum Clicker John Gagan
SF The Farthest City Daniel P. Swenson
SF Freedom Annette Bowman
SF The Search For Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Justin Key
SF Euro-Nuke '79 Michael Andre-Driussi
SF Extension Port Stas Yakovlev
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(Note, if the last week above looks abnormally large, it probably
needs me to add a new week, a task I do manually when I get around
to it. Future critique dates are approximate and subject to change.)
Symbols:
[@] - Pro [SFWA/HWA] author
[*] - Extra week(s) for holidays/aburt-out-of-town.
[mpc] - Most Product Critter Award winner
[!] - Special non-Wednesday dates because Critter Captain will be out of town
[ERROR!] - This means there is a problem and your manuscript will NOT be
sent out - Contact the Critter Captain ASAP if you see this by your name.
Waiting to enter Queue (Will enter at end of queue on "[date]"):
YA Enchanter RFDR E. B. Pike [?]
M The Shot Zimbalist L. Odhams [?]
M The Shot Zimbalist L. Odhams [?]
L The Six Samurai Chapters 1-3 John Endris [?]
F Our Father, Chapter 1 Brandon Byes [?]
SF Terra Prime: Fall of a Federation [?]
SF Rats in Space [?]
F Dollhouse of the He, Chart [?]
L Violin Playing Robot Chrissie Wranja [?]
SF Bloodlines, Chapter 1 Debra Crichlow [6-Aug-2014]
F Strange Things Happen All the Time Aleksandra Pantic [13-Aug-2014]
H Tribe: Prologue Wendy Salmon [6-Aug-2014]
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Held until participation ratio improves (then out that week):
F The Chronicles of Astroban The Gathering Book 1 Chapters 1 & 2 s Anne Graham [02-Jul-2014]
F Radiant, Chapter 1 Ashley Gonzales [09-Jul-2014]
H The Reaper's Tavern Pearce Clancy [09-Jul-2014]
F Formula Alec [16-Jul-2014]
SF Season of Blood and Banditos, Chp 4-5 Robert Cummings [16-Jul-2014]
F Fluttera Jessica Barnhart [16-Jul-2014]
SF Storm Strike, Prologue and Chapter 1 Randy R. Henke [16-Jul-2014]
F Myth Origins Jon Wiggins [23-Jul-2014]
SF Incineration, Chapters 1-6 Amanda L. Culton [23-Jul-2014]
F The Witch's Craft, Chapters 3-5 Patrick Crowe [30-Jul-2014]
SF Colony 411, Chapter 1 Luke Larsen [30-Jul-2014]
H The Book Clinton L. Reed [30-Jul-2014]
F Willow's Legend, Chapter 1-2 Iona Baird [30-Jul-2014]
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>> Note 1: Held manuscripts are removed after four weeks on hold and
>> must be resubmitted.
>> Note 2: It is the *author's* responsibility to notify Aburt when
>> they have brought up their critique count and want their ms. sent out.
[Click here to see the queue including archival data from 1995.]