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News
Critters is 25!
This November, Critters is 25 years old! Wow! Thanks so much to all of you, who've made it such a resounding success!
Books from Critters!
Check out Books by Critters for books by your fellow Critterfolk, as well as my list of recommended books for writers.
How to Write SF
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.)
(Also via Amazon)
Space Travel for SF Writers
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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 5-May-2021 (Crits due 12-May-2021):
SF Memories Retail [mpc] Victor Jimenez -#29903
SF Grit and Culling on Triton Robert Harpold -#29904
F New Cessations Richard Zwicker -#29905
SF All This Way Ray N. Franklin -#29906
H Skeletons Under the Bed Leanna Zimmerman -#29907
F The Book of Visions--Chapter 1 W. Lance Hunt -#29908
SF Shadows, Chapter 1-5 Kyle A Walker -#29909
SF Intuition Matthew J Olson -#29910
SF The Qwulne scottt godfrey -#29911
F The Halfway Revenant Chapter 1 Stephanie S. Bittner -#29912
SF Dangerous Passage Chapters 1-3 Keith Lammers -#29913
SF You Blossoms of Their Seeds Renan Bernardo -#29914
Week of 12-May-2021 (Crits due 19-May-2021):
F Chaoticum : Act 1 - Chapter 1 & 2 Charles Gull
H Cattywampus Adam Pitts
F The HeCorp Dollhouse, Chapters 1 and 2 Joel D. Young
SF Time Pieces Stanlei Bellan
F Across the Sunder, Chapters 1-4 Scott Malabarba
SF Sixteen, Nine, Four Fifty Eric Honour
SF Black Box, Chapters 1-3 Malcolm Macdonald
F Dichotomy William H. Leonard
F The Riders, Chapters 12-16 Rebecca Toro
SF The Wizards of Llandwellyn: Part 2: Chapters 45-46 Eric Wilson
F The Small-Magic Tea Shop H. D. Grande
H Reality Peel 5 of 6 Dan Jolie
F The Wayward Fall, Chapter 2-3 Gabrielle Laufer
H Follow the Vampire, Chapter 3 Stephanie Ryan
Week of 19-May-2021 (Crits due 26-May-2021):
SF Temporal Temptation Robert V. Riley
SF Five Minutes to Talk Henry Bernard McFarland
F The Light We Carry With Us Matt Krizan
SF A Slow Phase Out montrose neufeld
F Saving the Destroyer's Future Annaliese Lemmon
F The Founder's Eyes Marley Nox
F The Cicadas on the Other Side Katherine Mirani
H Cold Spot James Milton
SF Paradise Amanda H. Geard
SF Afterimage: A Microflash Collection Jeff Cates
F The Purgatory of Hope Charles Botsford
F Math Wiz 101 _Ch 1-3_ Nikhil Sekher
SF Conscript's Home Robin Eliot
SF The Productivity Lifehack Adrian Solorio
SF Cell Phone James Keane
SF Emotive, Chapter 11 Jeff Naylor
SF MagnitudeCh8-9 Victor Jimenez
SF Unity Rachel Howell
H THE DREAMER OF THE DREAMS, Chapters 1 Nicholas Moser
F Whiskey on my Mind Katelyn Sullivan
SF I'm The Thing Next Door Douglas Kolacki
SF The Sumerian Stone Timothy Brown
F Temptation Isabel Heynen
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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]"):
SF Prey scottt godfrey [12-May-2021]
SF Mites scottt godfrey [?]
SF La'Sann scott Godfrey [?]
SF Roland Darleigh Scott Godfrey [?]
SF The Worlds of the Black Sun Scott Godfrey [?]
SF The Wendigo Scott Godfrey [?]
F Chaoticum : Act 1 - Chapter 3 Charles Gull [19-May-2021]
F Chaoticum : Act 1 - Chapter 4 Charles Gull [?]
F Chaoticum : Act 1 - Chapter 5 Charles Gull [?]
F Chaoticum : Act 1 - Chapter 6 Charles Gull [?]
F Chaoticum : Act 1 - Chapter 7 Charles Gull [?]
F Chaoticum : Act 1 - Chapter 8 Charles Gull [?]
F Chaoticum : Act 2 - Chapter 1 Charles Gull [?]
F Chaoticum : Act 2 - Chapter 2 Charles Gull [?]
F Chaoticum : Act 2 - Chapter 3 Charles Gull [?]
F Chaoticum : Act 2 - Chapter 4 Charles Gull [?]
F Chaoticum : Act 2 - Chapter 5 Charles Gull [?]
F Chaoticum : Act 2 - Chapter 6 Charles Gull [?]
F Chaoticum : Act 2 - Chapter 7 Charles Gull [?]
F Chaoticum : Act 2 - Chapter 8 Charles Gull [?]
H The Midnight Train Murders 3rd Revision Jim Keane [26-May-2021]
SF Don't Touch My Stuff Adam Pitts [19-May-2021]
F The Riders, Chapters 17-22 Rebecca D Toro [19-May-2021]
F The Riders, Chapters 23-27 Rebecca Toro [?]
F The Riders, Chapters 28-31 Rebecca Toro [?]
F The Riders, Chapters 32-34 Rebecca Toro [?]
SF Emotive, Chapter 12 Jeff Naylor [26-May-2021]
SF Emotive, Chapter 13 Jeff Naylor [?]
SF Emotive, Chapter 14 Jeff Naylor [?]
F The Wizards of Llandwellyn: Part 2: Chapter 47 Eric Wilson [19-May-2021]
F The Wizards of Llandwellyn: Part 2: Chapter 48 Eric Wilson [?]
H Reality Peel 6 of 6 Dan Jolie [19-May-2021]
F The HeCorp Dollhouse, Chapters 3 and 4 Joel D. Young [19-May-2021]
H The Creator Jim Keane [?]
H The Camping Trip Jim Keane [?]
H The Mirror Part 1 of 2 Jim Keane [?]
H The Mirror Part 2 of 2 Jim Keane [?]
H Ich Bin ein Zombie Richard Zwicker [12-May-2021]
F Across the Sunder, Chapters 5-9 Scott Malabarba [19-May-2021]
F Across the Sunder, Chapters 10-14 Scott Malabarba [?]
F Bullet William H Leonard [19-May-2021]
F Iteration William H. Leonard [?]
H There Should Be Monsters Kyle A Walker [12-May-2021]
SF Knockout Matthew J Olson [12-May-2021]
SF The Walking Mirror of the Soul Renan Bernardo [19-May-2021]
SF On Becoming A God, Chapters 1-2, Synopsis Charles Botsford [26-May-2021]
F Across the Sunder, Chapters 15-19 Scott Malabarba [?]
H Follow the Vampire, Chapter 4 Stephanie Ryan [26-May-2021]
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Held until participation ratio improves (then out that week):
F Powers of the universe sai phani [03-Mar-2021]
F In the Sorcerers' Society Chris Piatti [03-Mar-2021]
F The Captain Thunderegg Arc Jordan Chase-Young [10-Mar-2021]
SF Interstellar Tall Tales: William the Pecostian Jacob Swift [24-Mar-2021]
H The Mysterious MrGraves Troy Adams [24-Mar-2021]
F Summit of Memory Claudia Lackie [31-Mar-2021]
F Teacher Errant Anastasia Shalunkova [31-Mar-2021]
SF The Thrill Joseph Townsend [07-Apr-2021]
H The Stretcher Andrew Eron [07-Apr-2021]
H The Revenants of Reckoning James Hyde [07-Apr-2021]
H Endless night of horrors Pallab Behari Chaklanabis [14-Apr-2021]
F Ellica and the Runic Sword Anastasia Shalunkova [21-Apr-2021]
F The Key Lisa Michelle Essler [21-Apr-2021]
SF The Optimal Timeline George M Edwards [28-Apr-2021]
F Raedfrith's Tale, Prologue Charles B. Machinist [28-Apr-2021]
H Hellscape: The Stray Dogs, Chapters 1-8 Brian Umsteadt [28-Apr-2021]
SF The Riders, Chapters 7-11 Rebecca Toro [28-Apr-2021]
F Fae Folk of the Anthropocene [mpc] Eric J. Francis [05-May-2021]
SF The Singularity will not be Televised [mpc] Steve Patschke [05-May-2021]
SF Tears in Rain Jacob M. Houston [05-May-2021]
F If You Break a Mirror, You'll Never Change Kevin M. Casin [05-May-2021]
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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.]