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I'm a physicist. Which has certain advantages when writing hard SF. In the old days, Newton, Faraday, etc., one tended to be just a physicist -- not so much specialists. Today, while one can be widely read, it is damned difficult to know everything. Second thought. Even in hard SF, you can usually s...

Has anyone ever done a doctoral dissertation on the contest? There's gotta be good things in the data or even this forum to mine for research. I mean thirty years. That's over half a million dollars in prizes for WOTF and IOTF, which doesn't cover the costs of the event and workshops. This is a sign...

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Dr. Phil

But Brad, that doesn't work at 9pm on the deadline day! (grin)

Dr. Phil

I always send RTF files -- it's more polite. (grin) Joni wrote back: Dear Phil, No worries. We won't let computers get in the way of getting your story submitted for the quarter. What I want you to do is to respond to this e-mail with your manuscript attached. In the text of the e-mail message inclu...

Same here -- around 6pm EDT.

I've sent an email and screenshot to Joni -- no reply yet.

Dr. Phil

(NOTE: You should edit your post to remove the story filename from your post.)

Swing and a miss. And I'd gotten such good reactions from my first readers on this one.

Rejected 8
No Call 1 (USPS lost a whole bin of entries)
Finalist 3 (1 published in WOTF XXIV, 2 in one year)
Semi 2
SILVER H-M 1
Quarter 10
H-M 17 (Quarter+H-M = 27)
Total 42

Aw well, onward.

Dr. Phil

Dark Courier was invented so that later HP LaserJets could have the original thick lined Courier font of the very first original HP LaserJet. I learned about Dark Courier at the 2004 Clarion workshop and used it for quite a while, but eventually gave up. It produces good dark print on my HP LaserJet...