sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com
The Alien Next Door: Limestone Genre Expo—July 2015
http://sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com/2015/08/limestone-genre-expojuly-2015.html
The Alien Next Door. Musings of Nina Munteanu, SF writer and Ecologist. Sunday, August 2, 2015. Limestone Genre Expo—July 2015. I recently attended the inaugural festival of the Limestone Genre Expo (July 25, 2015) in. Kingston, Ontario. The festival gets its name from the city’s moniker, based on the many heritage buildings constructed there using local limestone. It was worth it. The festival covered several of the major genres such as fantasy, science fiction, horror, romance and mystery, with represe...
sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com
The Alien Next Door: August 2015
http://sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com/2015_08_01_archive.html
The Alien Next Door. Musings of Nina Munteanu, SF writer and Ecologist. Sunday, August 2, 2015. Limestone Genre Expo—July 2015. I recently attended the inaugural festival of the Limestone Genre Expo (July 25, 2015) in. Kingston, Ontario. The festival gets its name from the city’s moniker, based on the many heritage buildings constructed there using local limestone. It was worth it. The festival covered several of the major genres such as fantasy, science fiction, horror, romance and mystery, with represe...
sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com
The Alien Next Door: April 2014
http://sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com/2014_04_01_archive.html
The Alien Next Door. Musings of Nina Munteanu, SF writer and Ecologist. Sunday, April 27, 2014. Author’s Night: Three Authors…Three Stories…. Nina beams beside Vali Gurgu and Costi Gurgu with Trilogy. It was a dark and stormy night… and no one cared because inside we were having a marvellous time, drinking, eating, and discussing matters literary and epic. Eager bibliophiles find the wine and some choice seats. I was celebrating the completion and release this month of the final book ( Metaverse. Rhea Ha...
sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com
The Alien Next Door: February 2015
http://sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com/2015_02_01_archive.html
The Alien Next Door. Musings of Nina Munteanu, SF writer and Ecologist. Sunday, February 22, 2015. Nina Talks to EAC on the Changing Face of Publishing. Some time ago, I gave a talk on the changing face of publishing and writing for editors at EAC in Toronto. Publishing and writing and editing. Saturday, February 7, 2015. Hubble Captures Jupiter’s Great Entourage of Moons. Jupiter and its Entourage of Moons. This weekend, I ran across this recent February 7 2015 article on Bad Astronomy. Plait explains h...
sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com
The Alien Next Door: December 2014
http://sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com/2014_12_01_archive.html
The Alien Next Door. Musings of Nina Munteanu, SF writer and Ecologist. Sunday, December 28, 2014. The Christmas Truce of WWI—A Moment of Great Disobedience. On Christmas Eve of 1914—a hundred years ago this month and in the midst of brutal trench warfare—a moment of peace broke out on the Western Front. It was a great moment of disobedience. Cold, weary and homesick Christian soldiers on both sides of the infamous No Man’s Land. As Christmas neared, the soldiers on both sides of the trenches “. They dis...
sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com
The Alien Next Door: May 2014
http://sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com/2014_05_01_archive.html
The Alien Next Door. Musings of Nina Munteanu, SF writer and Ecologist. Thursday, May 22, 2014. Literary Fest at Gladstone Hotel May 25th. Selling books in style in the Melody Bar of the Gladstone. Last winter I attended the Small Press Literary Festival. At the posh-funk Gladstone Hotel on Queen Street West Toronto. A snow blizzard stormed through the city, wreaking havoc and sending cars and pedestrians skidding on the roads. The crowds still came. The Gladstone Hotel is a Toronto Boutique Art hotel, b...
sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com
The Alien Next Door: October 2014
http://sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com/2014_10_01_archive.html
The Alien Next Door. Musings of Nina Munteanu, SF writer and Ecologist. Friday, October 31, 2014. Despite what you've heard, there are actual sounds in space. Due to the virtual vacuum in space, it's not sound like you and I experience it (waves pulsing through the air) but electromagnetic waves that pulsate at the same wavelength as the sound waves we can hear. Instruments on several NASA probes, including Voyager, recorded these waves and translated them into a sound that we can hear. Telling My Story ...
sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com
The Alien Next Door: June 2015
http://sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com/2015_06_01_archive.html
The Alien Next Door. Musings of Nina Munteanu, SF writer and Ecologist. Friday, June 5, 2015. Submission Call for "My Canada" Anthology. IOWI has sent out a submission call for its anthology "My Canada", an anthology devoted to stories, poems, articles and images about Canada. July 30th. EXTENDED TO AUGUST 31st. See the IOWI site. 113; only those accepted for publication are expected to pay the fee, which covers the cost of 10 copies of the anthology. Highest per capita income globally, and the 8. We are...
sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com
The Alien Next Door: April 2015
http://sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com/2015_04_01_archive.html
The Alien Next Door. Musings of Nina Munteanu, SF writer and Ecologist. Friday, April 10, 2015. Mass Intelligent TV and the Age of the Disposable Hero- Valar Morghulis. The word out there—at least according to The Economist Group—is that “smart is the new cool”. John Parker of Intelligent Life. Sister magazine to The Economist. According to Susan Jacoby, scholar and author of The Age of American Unreason. As opposed to experienced. Processed and enlightened by. 8220;The defining phenomenon of our society...
sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com
The Alien Next Door: May 2015
http://sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com/2015_05_01_archive.html
The Alien Next Door. Musings of Nina Munteanu, SF writer and Ecologist. Sunday, May 10, 2015. Nature Cooperating and Laguna’s Bottlenose Dolphins. Dolphins helping fishermen catch mullet. A few posts back, I discussed the phenomenon called “. Life did not take over the globe by combat, but by. Examples of such networking, including interspecies cooperation, mutualism and altruism abound in Nature. In Africa birds called ox-peckers perch on the backs of large animals such as giraffes and cattle, and remov...