21 Minutes - by Rahul Jaisheel

Published on 23 Nov, 2008:
Introduction
This is the second prize wining entry in the 2008 Scifi Contest. Author Rahul Jaisheel deftly weaves a time travel story. When there are a thousand time travel stories already written, it takes courage to pit your head on it again. Rahul Jaisheel has taken up the challenge and does very well too. ...

Noah's Ark - by Narendra Desirazu

Published on Dec 11, 2008:
Introduction
This story won the sponsored prize in the 2008 Scifi Contest. Author Narendra speculates on a possible collision of events where a martian bacteria may help solve global warming on earth. Read on to find out how things turn out. ...

TheScian Writer's Kit: Writing a good short story

This is a list of observations that were made after reading the stories submitted to our yearly Scifi Contest over the last three years. If these observations help a young writer to anchor her thoughts on the essentials, then the purpose of these observations would be fulfilled. ...

To The Silverfish Found Dead Over Shakespeare's Poetry


Humans – they don't like errant Silverfish, dear;
Oh, they snap the page shut, when you read ...

Note to the so-called Intelligent Designer

Sat, 05/10/2008 - 15:19 — selva ,

4:54 minutes (4.5 MB)

[An X-ray diffraction image of Rhinovirus gingerly placed by the author on his five month old daughter's towel. Materials from: Protein Data Bank and daughter's wardrobe]
The divine architect of runny noses,
The wizard of ooze, of two stinky hoses,
You made every man woman a misfit
With appendages and stomach full of shit.

Sexy theater in a messy sewer,
Shame on you unintelligent ...

Leaping into the void: On apples, frogs and rockets

Tue, 01/15/2008 - 08:01 — selva ,

24:00 minutes (21.97 MB)

by Selva. Published on Jan 15, 2008:
"There were nights when the Moon was full and very, very low, and the tide was so high that the Moon missed a ducking in the sea by a hair's-breadth; well, let's say a few yards anyway. Climb up on the Moon? Of course we did. All you had to do was row out to it in a boat and, when you were underneath, prop a ladder against her and scramble up" - The distance of the moon, Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics (1968)
...

'Measuring the World' by Daniel Kehlmann: A Reader's Notes

by Selva. 27 Dec, 2007.

Measuring the world is a novel by the young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann who has been hailed as one of the most promising new generation of writers. This novel is the first of his to be translated into english (by Carol Brown Janeway) and has become an international sensation. ...

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