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Comment on The Silent Bang, Waiting (Homage to a lithograph by Parkes) by Michele Dutcher

Michele Dutcher — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:20:55 +0000

Fantastic! This is exactly the venue for this poem. I love the visual of this poem almost being a double-helix, the symbol of life renewal. Love it!

Comment on Encyclopedia Galactica: Earthdance by Issue 16: October 41 AT/2010 CE « Voices/Future Tense

Issue 16: October 41 AT/2010 CE « Voices/Future Tense — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:05:08 +0000

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Comment on We Invite You… by Issue 16: October 41 AT/2010 CE « Voices/Future Tense

Issue 16: October 41 AT/2010 CE « Voices/Future Tense — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:04:52 +0000

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Comment on Todd Drashner by The Technician, by Neal Asher « Voices/Future Tense

The Technician, by Neal Asher « Voices/Future Tense — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:03:35 +0000

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Comment on Travelers’ Notes: Freesphere by Michele Dutcher

Michele Dutcher — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:09:28 +0000

Todd always gives such joyous details about his ‘travels’. I think the explosives blowing up fragments of comets for an audience’s entertainment would be considered ‘art’. I liked the birds. Are there also ‘bad trips’ included in the Traveler’s notes? I like this group of short stories – Todd always tells a good tale.
As far as going down to the surface via a beanpole, I had ‘ziptubes’ around a beanpole in one of my stories. I include a couple of paragraphs, just as an aside.
Max was the last to enter the ziptubes because he hated the ride. The ziptubes were only wide enough for one man in a spacesuit, and gave a person a constant feeling of falling. There were four positive magnetized strips on the transparent interior walls of the tubes. These repelled the negative layer on the spacesuit, keeping the man inside safely away from the walls. Small rockets in the suit shot the traveler up or down through the weightless vacuum. Being able to ride the ziptubes was a basic skill for the Ella’s maintenance crews, and many employment candidates were ruled because they couldn’t tolerate the enclosure.
As Max jumped into the ziptube, he selected one star in the Celestine Sphere to focus on. He knew it really wasn’t a star, that it was actually the planet Venus reflecting the glory of the Sun. Somewhere inside himself, he decided to rename this bright light ‘Lexon’, at least for the trip downwards. He wasn’t aware of it then, but he would call it Lexon from that moment until he no longer saw stars in the sky.

Comment on A Transapient’s Lie by Michele Dutcher

Michele Dutcher — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:37:34 +0000

That’s what I enjoy about the writing in Voices/Future Tense: the reader will find stories here that he won’t find elsewhere. A Transapient’s Lie by Morgan Heacock is a glimpse at almost nothing more than a passing thought – but that communication between two parties has a mind of its own.
Perhaps that’s all that any of us can aspire to: “to be filled with hope that I would be apprecieated, in some way I could understand… my purpose.”
Very well done for a piece under 600 words.

Comment on Travelers’ Notes: Mars by Michele Dutcher

Michele Dutcher — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:52:32 +0000

Nicely done. I like the dull sense of yearning for ancient Earth, even as mankind is being barred out. This is, as you well know, one of my favorite places in the timeline. Beacons of the beanstalk – nicely done.

Comment on Bunny Love Has No Limits by Aurini

Aurini — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 06:43:52 +0000

Eminently readable. I liked it.

Comment on Infanticide by Jason

Jason — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 04:06:55 +0000

Wow, what an amazing story! I got shivers down my spine just thinking about the complexity and level of technology involved, I would pay for a book written in this manner!

Comment on Once Again, Happy Tranquility Day! by Issue 15: The Travelers’ Notes Edition « Voices/Future Tense

Issue 15: The Travelers’ Notes Edition « Voices/Future Tense — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:36:52 +0000

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