Jun 1, 2006 | Intergalactic Medicine Show
“Being a fan is like being in love,” says Lynn Karlsson, a fanfic writer. “You just want to eat, sleep, breathe, and love these characters, and spending time with them is the most engaging thing that you think of.” Fanfic writer and artist...
May 1, 2006 | Intergalactic Medicine Show
I was fifteen years old when I invented the genre of fan fiction, a form of writing where the author takes characters or universes created by someone else and writes stories about them. That was the year I wrote my first short story involving me, Kirk, and Spock,...
Apr 1, 2006 | Intergalactic Medicine Show
When Ann Tonsor Zeddies read excerpts from her latest book, Blood and Roses, for a private group, she did not have to bolster her confidence by imagining her audience without their clothes. She had only to look up. The audience, members of the Clothing Optional Dinner...
Mar 12, 2006 | Intergalactic Medicine Show
The word “blog” entered our lexicon with a vengeance: a techie buzz-word that appeared in 1999, the word “blog” was voted the most popular word in the year in 2004 [1]. This gave rise to the phrase, “Haven’t you read my blog,”...
Feb 12, 2006 | Intergalactic Medicine Show
Yael Sela-Shapiro did not wake up one morning and say, “I think I’ll translate English science fiction into Hebrew” — but after passing a test given by a small translation agency, it happened just the same. Armed with a slew of dictionaries and...
