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NOTE:
This is a log of a LIVE CHAT originating from the Green Room
at Chicon, the 58th Annual World Science Fiction Convention.
We thank our guests for being game enough to brave a live chat
under less than optimal circumstances.
Our guests were typing on unfamiliar laptops with very small
keyboards. (Click Here to see the chat area.)
Because of these several impediments, as well as other
technical difficulties, you will find typos and occasional
replication of text. In our humble opinion, typos show that
the logs are of *live* chats, not canned interviews, and
minimal editing of these logs has taken place.
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Ron Collins is a Writers of the Future prize winner, and has
contributed to Analog, Dragon Magazine, and several other magazines and
anthologies. He has collaborated with Hugo and Nebula award-winning author
Mike Resnick. Somewhere along the way he managed to pick up a degree in
Mechanical Engineering from the University of Louisville. He's worked in
Avionics and Electronics for all of his professional life, currently finding
himself developing information technology at Cummins Engine Company. He
has lived most of his life in the great Midwest, and now--with his wife,
Lisa, and his daughter, Brigid--calls Columbus, Indiana home. The obligatory
cat's name is Rika.
Ron Collins's Home Page
[Cybling] Let's say hi to Ron!
[RWC] This is getting addictive
[Pam_M] hi, Ron
* DavE could quit anytime
[Ron_Collins] I'm a short story writer...
[RWC] Hi Ron or Rick
[Tomb] Hi Rick, Ron Collins
[RWC] Ah cool
[Ron_Collins] You'll find my stuff in Writer's of the Future, Analog, and several other places.
[Cybling] It's Ron...your brain dead moderator here mistyped Ron's name.
[DavE] Nifty
[Ron_Collins] Yeah, but then I spazzed it too...
[RWC] I like brain dead moderators
[Tomb] Yes
[Ron_Collins] My novellette, "TheTarranthStone" ison Analog's cover this October...
[VeronicaMatrix] lol
[Ron_Collins] Many apologies...I haven't typed anything for four days, you know, and I've got con fingers.
[RWC] And what is it about?
[Cybling] Great then we don't have to go far to get a sample of your work.
[RWC] Sorry to be so straight forward:)
[Ron_Collins] It's set on a VEnus-like planet orbiting Alpha Centauri.
[Cybling] Folks...just a reminder. I have our guests on an unfamiliar laptop, so please remember that typos are part of chat.
[RWC] That's okay
[Pam_M] i sort of like the VEnus spelling, myself
[VeronicaMatrix] lol
[RWC] lol
[Ron_Collins] I can typo withthe best of them, too. My websiteis isn't titled "Typosphere"for nothing.
[VeronicaMatrix] laptops are bad for chats really
[Pam_M] i visit that website, nice place
[Ron_Collins] Thank you.
[RWC] Forget the typo stuff and tell us about your stuff;)
[Tomb] Whats the namebrand of the labtop an ibook ?
[Cybling] lol, thanks RWC.
[Ron_Collins] "The Taranth Stone" is a sequel to "Stealing the Sun", which was in Analog the year prior.
[RWC] And...?
[Ron_Collins] "The Taranth Stone" is a sequel to "Stealing the Sun", which was in Analog the year prior.
[RWC] And...?
[Ron_Collins] And my story "The Dissapearance of Josie Andrew" was teh first WofT story ever to...
[RWC] I am very stubborn, you should know:)
[Ron_Collins] make the prelimianry ballot for the Nebula short story award.
[Ron_Collins] I like stubborn.
[Pam_M] would you classify yourself as a hard sf writer?
[RWC] Okay you don't want to say what it is about:)
[Ron_Collins] I'm in what has to be a select group of folks who have appeared in MZB's Fantasy and Analog...
[Ron_Collins] but I _am_ an engineer by degree.
[RWC] Good, and you write about what?
[RWC] :)
[Ron_Collins] Stealing the SUn and the Taranth stone are about the relationship between humans and an alien race around Alpha centauri.
[Cybling] WE have about 3 more minutes with Ron here.
[RWC] Ah, that's appealing already:)
[Pam_M] do you write from character or plot?
[RWC] Ron, tell us the ending!
[VeronicaMatrix] lol
[Ron_Collins] Stealing the Sun revolves around human kind using alpha centauri as an energy source.
[Cybling] lol RWC.
[RWC] No., just kidding
[Ron_Collins] The Taranth Stone picks up and touches on the resulting effect on the Alpha Centauri system...
[Ron_Collins] read the story for the ending...
[RWC] Sure
[DavE] Do you have a future history?
[Ron_Collins] I write mostly from character...
[RWC] Cool
[RWC] That lacks in lot of SF these days
[Ron_Collins] Not sure how to answer about future history. But yes, I've got how the whole thing will end.
[RWC] The character part, I mean
[Ron_Collins] Should take another three stories or so.
[DavE] Are all your stories interconnected in this future?
[Ron_Collins] Yedp.
[Cybling] Folks...we're going to have to let Ron run away now.l
[VeronicaMatrix] awwww
[DavE] Thanks Rick!
[Ron_Collins] No ... not all of my stories are in this future.
[Cybling] Let's give him a hand for coming at this early hour to chat with us.
* Cybling applauds
[RWC] Thanks, euh Ron
* Pam_M claps
[DavE] *clap clap*
[Ron_Collins] Thanks for your time....stop by my site and drop me a note...see ya...
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