Comments on: The First Annual Brain Harvest Mega Challenge Second Place Winner http://www.brainharvestmag.com/2009/10/the-first-annual-brain-harvest-mega-challenge-second-place-winner/ An Almanac of Bad Ass Speculative Fiction Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:56:27 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Brendan Carson http://www.brainharvestmag.com/2009/10/the-first-annual-brain-harvest-mega-challenge-second-place-winner/comment-page-1/#comment-436 Brendan Carson Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:26:58 +0000 http://www.brainharvestmag.com/?p=453#comment-436 Hail, This is brilliant. This is one of the better stories I have read this year. I will be looking out for anything you write - the way I feel at the moment I'd buy your shopping list. I am almost incandescently envious. And "Hell yeah" with Matthew Shepard. They must not be invisible. Thanks again. Hail,
This is brilliant. This is one of the better stories I have read this year. I will be looking out for anything you write – the way I feel at the moment I’d buy your shopping list.
I am almost incandescently envious.
And “Hell yeah” with Matthew Shepard. They must not be invisible.
Thanks again.

]]> By: Jeff VanderMeer http://www.brainharvestmag.com/2009/10/the-first-annual-brain-harvest-mega-challenge-second-place-winner/comment-page-1/#comment-425 Jeff VanderMeer Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:00:16 +0000 http://www.brainharvestmag.com/?p=453#comment-425 Hey, Mr. Vandemark, I sent you an email but I don't think it went through. Hey, Mr. Vandemark, I sent you an email but I don’t think it went through.

]]> By: William T. Vandemark http://www.brainharvestmag.com/2009/10/the-first-annual-brain-harvest-mega-challenge-second-place-winner/comment-page-1/#comment-404 William T. Vandemark Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:32:02 +0000 http://www.brainharvestmag.com/?p=453#comment-404 Wow. Thank you, everyone! I appreciate your kind words. Very gratifying! Wow. Thank you, everyone! I appreciate your kind words. Very gratifying!

]]> By: Jason Heller http://www.brainharvestmag.com/2009/10/the-first-annual-brain-harvest-mega-challenge-second-place-winner/comment-page-1/#comment-393 Jason Heller Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:09:44 +0000 http://www.brainharvestmag.com/?p=453#comment-393 Fucking killer. Shades of Dr. Manhattan. Love it! Fucking killer. Shades of Dr. Manhattan. Love it!

]]> By: William Owen http://www.brainharvestmag.com/2009/10/the-first-annual-brain-harvest-mega-challenge-second-place-winner/comment-page-1/#comment-388 William Owen Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:41:16 +0000 http://www.brainharvestmag.com/?p=453#comment-388 You know what I dig? This story. Damn this is good. Just phenomenally well done. I love the voice of it, straining to be worthy of the its own power, of the power of the events it witnesses and which gives birth to it, and its final, inevitable collapse. You know what I dig? This story. Damn this is good. Just phenomenally well done. I love the voice of it, straining to be worthy of the its own power, of the power of the events it witnesses and which gives birth to it, and its final, inevitable collapse.

]]> By: Ripley http://www.brainharvestmag.com/2009/10/the-first-annual-brain-harvest-mega-challenge-second-place-winner/comment-page-1/#comment-387 Ripley Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:00:28 +0000 http://www.brainharvestmag.com/?p=453#comment-387 A great story but what over-used trope is being demonstrated here as per the competition guide? http://strangehorizons.com/guidelines/fiction-common.shtml A great story but what over-used trope is being demonstrated here as per the competition guide?

http://strangehorizons.com/guidelines/fiction-common.shtml

]]> By: Maintainer http://www.brainharvestmag.com/2009/10/the-first-annual-brain-harvest-mega-challenge-second-place-winner/comment-page-1/#comment-386 Maintainer Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:14:49 +0000 http://www.brainharvestmag.com/?p=453#comment-386 A superb story. Nicely balanced between the shock of understanding and dispassionate observation. Loved the language which again is nicely balanced between the old-fashioned and the modern as well as between the human and the otherness. Funny, I didn't find anything political about it, unless the dismal sad way we treat other humans is political. I found it more of an examination of real people caught in real situations punished for simply being themselves—humans can really suck sometimes. But at the same time we have storytellers that spin nifty tales like this. A superb story. Nicely balanced between the shock of understanding and dispassionate observation. Loved the language which again is nicely balanced between the old-fashioned and the modern as well as between the human and the otherness.

Funny, I didn’t find anything political about it, unless the dismal sad way we treat other humans is political. I found it more of an examination of real people caught in real situations punished for simply being themselves—humans can really suck sometimes.

But at the same time we have storytellers that spin nifty tales like this.

]]> By: Jesse Snavlin http://www.brainharvestmag.com/2009/10/the-first-annual-brain-harvest-mega-challenge-second-place-winner/comment-page-1/#comment-385 Jesse Snavlin Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:55:38 +0000 http://www.brainharvestmag.com/?p=453#comment-385 Matthew Shepherd really couldn't have had a more lovely memorial... Matthew Shepherd really couldn’t have had a more lovely memorial…

]]> By: Micah Dean Hicks http://www.brainharvestmag.com/2009/10/the-first-annual-brain-harvest-mega-challenge-second-place-winner/comment-page-1/#comment-384 Micah Dean Hicks Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:14:41 +0000 http://www.brainharvestmag.com/?p=453#comment-384 "Shards of nanophages flew like daggers. They struck the dirt and reassembled as salamanders, each scuttling from conflagration." This! “Shards of nanophages flew like daggers. They struck the dirt and reassembled as salamanders, each scuttling from conflagration.”
This!

]]> By: Brandon Bell http://www.brainharvestmag.com/2009/10/the-first-annual-brain-harvest-mega-challenge-second-place-winner/comment-page-1/#comment-383 Brandon Bell Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:48:00 +0000 http://www.brainharvestmag.com/?p=453#comment-383 I loved the story too, but -for me- 'too political' is just right. :) Congrats, WTV! I loved the story too, but -for me- ‘too political’ is just right. :)

Congrats, WTV!

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