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Futurismic: More positive sf: DayBreak Magazine launches for Diwali
SF Signal: Free Fiction From DayBreak Magazine, the Online Counterpart to the 'Shine' Anthology
Variety SF: Jeff Soesbe - "The Very Difficult Diwali of Sub-Inspector Gurushankar Rajaram" (novelette, humor, free)
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Tomorrow is Diwali—Today is “The Very Difficult Diwali of Sub-Inspector Gurushankar Rajaram”: http://is.gd/4mMpv . Courtesy of Jeff Soesbe. 10/16/2009 |
More positive sf: DayBreak Magazine launches for Diwali
Futurismic —
... “The Very Difficult Diwali of Sub-Inspector Gurushankar Rajaram” by Jeff Soesbe ...
Free Fiction From DayBreak Magazine, the Online Counterpart to the 'Shine' Anthology
SF Signal —
... is the online fiction part of Jetse de Vries' upcoming Shine anthology. On Friday October 16, the website published its first free story ("The Very Difficult Diwali of Sub-Inspector Gurushankar Rajaram" by Jeff Soesbe), with new ones available every second Friday until the print Shine anthology appears, and possible longer. ( ...
Jeff Soesbe - "The Very Difficult Diwali of Sub-Inspector Gurushankar Rajaram" (novelette, humor, free)
Variety SF —
Travails of a cop on crowd control duty on a festival day in a future Bangalore. Sometimes funny (after a slow start). Plot includes little kids driving a herd of genetically modified elephants to a crowded location full of revelers to protest about something, government bent on killing both kids & elephants to avoid stampede when they arrive, unsuccessful efforts of a bunch of smart genetically modified monkeys to halt the herd's progress, good hearted cop's efforts to resolve the situation peaceably for everyone... Eventually, happy ending. Too ...
The Very Difficult Diwali of Sub-Inspector Gurushankar Rajaram by Jeff Soesbe
Big Dumb Object —
The first story published in DayBreak Magazine is The Very Difficult Diwali of Sub-Inspector Gurushankar Rajaram by Jeff Soesbe and it’s a story I thoroughly enjoyed. Set in India and following a day in Raja’s life. But not an ordinary day! It’s jam-packed with groovy ideas, feels exotic (to me) because of the Indian setting, captures some great atmosphere and most of all left me feeling happy. I won’t give any more away, much of the delight of the story is its cascade of ideas. Just go and read it. A great start to DayBreak, Shine and their ...
