I floop-floopian LOVE this guy’s stuff, so much…His designs give me chills in a way I’ve felt on only a handful of occasions since first reading EXPEDITION over 25 years ago.The most abstracted of his creations approach the level of otherworldliness I associate with true “aliens”–organisms generated independently by biotic processes occurring on a remote world in total isolation from terrestrial evolution. Look upon his works, ye mighty, and despair!
I’m so proud and excited to present "Good Business" - an adaptation of a short comic of mine by the esteemed Ray Sullivan! (photo paste-up below by @cmkosemenillustrated)
Images I found online some time in the early 2000′s by an artist identified only as TATRO. These surreal 3D creations, described by the artist as Multireplicants, very closely approach my ideal of feral self-replicating nanotech organisms or other such forms of post-Singularity “synthetic wildlife.”
I had the wonderful opportunity to illustrate Issue 5, Things that Float for The Golden Key, a journal of speculative and literary writing. The pieces in this issue are really fantastic and gorgeous and floaty, and were such a joy and challenge to illustrate!
Thanks so much, LiAnn and the editors, for letting me be part of this issue!
Another snippet of an illustration by Priscilla Boatwright for Issue #5 Things that Float! See more of her artwork here: http://pb-and-paint.tumblr.com/.
Snippet of an illustration by the enormously talented Priscilla Boatwright(@pb-and-paint) for Issue #5 Things that Float! Stay tuned for more sneak peeks into Issue #5.
She rents a steamer to loosen the paper from the wall. It’s Pepto-Bismol pink, gummy and nauseating in its ability to bring forward memories of stomach upset. The layer below is from her mother’s youth: sky blue patterned with purple tulips, blue pansies, green leaves. She applies steam and peels it back, wonders how many layers she has to go. Next is something decades older: monochromatic green, a grassy hue bordering diluted watercolors, forming roses, leaves. Further down: red with yellow squares and blue flowers. She unsticks it from the wall and huffs as another layer of paper emerges.
In another house that is also the same house, a woman tries desperately to keep the paper up on her walls. It puffs out, then buckles back during breakfast. She puts her hands to it, pats it down, but then it’s sliding off in sheets, and it’s all she can do to keep it from knocking down the vase her mother gave her, the spices lining the back edge of the counter.
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Rebecca Emanuelsen is a Michigan-based writer. Her stories have appeared in Shimmer, Parcel, Fractured West, and elsewhere. She occasionally blogs at rebeccaemanuelsen @ wordpress.com.
Illustration by guest artist Jen Muir. More of Jen Muir’s work can be found at http://platypusradio.me/.
We’re thrilled to announce our very first Flash Fiction Open! The contest is open to flash fiction 500 words or under, and it will be judged by a writer who is beloved by us: Karin Tidbeck, author of the unclassifiable and wonderfully strange collection Jagannath, and stories that have appeared in some of our favorite places like Unstuck, Tor.com, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons.
The prize is $200 and publication in Issue 6. As each issue of The Golden Key is themed to be inspired by some “object” that might come out of the little iron chest in the Grimm Brothers’ “The Golden Key” tale, the winning piece selected by Karin Tidbeck will also set the theme for Issue 6.
There will be a modest entry fee of $5 for one entry, or $7 for two. We’re raising money so that we can pay our future contributors—entry fees are considered donations, and donations are never used for website or site-related costs—editors pay that.
We hope you’ll enter our first contest! You could win $200, your story could be the centerpiece of Issue 6, and you’ll be supporting other writers!
The wonderful poster art for the Flash Fiction Open was created by the supremely talented F. Lee. See more of F. Lee’s work here: Portfolio,store, and on Twitter @FleeCentaur. @fleebites
This is an issue that you can split and peel, crack open, scoop up, cut into—consume with all your senses. Fair warning: It may consume a little bit of you, too.
For Issue 4 of The Golden Key, we are in search of hungry things.
Loud-smacking lips. Quivering jowls. Beasts with a keen taste for playing with their food.
Whet our appetites, then deny them. We want gnashing teeth, insatiable yearning. Irresistible smells winding out of a pot. Steam leaking from beneath a closed door. The low rumbling thunder of a long-denied stomach.
Whip us up cravings we didn’t know we could have. Make us hungry for salt water, witches’ brew, vapors. Invite us down paths our noses insist that we follow. Conjure the ache of a food shortage, rations, a whole continent under the flame of its famine.
Give us hunger that’s insistent, burdensome, loud. Push us past the trails hunger can blaze, the wreckage an unyielding appetite can produce.
Show us a thirsting, a yen, a yearning, a lusting in the belly—for things far more wicked and heady than food.
After I saw one post in Twitter page, it’s inspired me to draw a Ceratosaurus without osteoderms as really weird trend when it regards the inaccurate feature seen in non-avian theropod depictions. So here’s a sketch of full grown Ceratosaurus without osteoderms. And hope you enjoy. #speculative #dinosaur #ceratosaurusnasicornis #ceratosaurus #paleoart #sketch #sketchbookdrawing #sketchbook #artistsoninstagram #myart #twitter https://www.instagram.com/p/CZTFcxkrwM8/?utm_medium=tumblr
Dodaem // Data Animal // Form made from what the Winter Solstice sun would see. #dataform #architecture #speculative #data #art #design #indigenousdesign #cornelius #instaart #instaarch #texturemapping #instarender #architectureporn #conceptual #render #critday #thebestnewarchitects #archdaily #architects_need #showitbetter #architecturefactor https://www.instagram.com/p/CXwvXTBO2gW/?utm_medium=tumblr
