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Arc 1.3 released… sort of… and free for a limited time

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Thanks to Vortex for giving me the heads up that Arcfinity 1.3 has been released today. Most intriguingly, not for Kindle (yet) and equally intriguingly, free for a limited time (until October 3rd).

Click here for the link to download for free.

For those of you who have been following my reviews and have any of the listed devices, this is your chance to see what this magazine and futurism is all about. I’m going to try to download a free edition onto my Android phone over the weekend and I will let you know what I think. Hopefully, the Kindle edition should be available soon enough.

Enjoy!

Reblogging: Arc 1.3 delay

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Quick update… despite having an expected release date of September 24th (yesterday) it still has not been released into Kindle marketplace. I’ve trawled the internet looking for answers but New Scientist are remaining tight lipped. If anybody has any information, please feel free to comment.

Originally posted on Sweat, Tears and Digital Ink:

By my reckoning it is late.

Arc 1.1 was released on 15th Feb 2012.
Arc 1.2 was released on 24th May 2012.

It is a quarterly magazine so surely Arc 1.3 should be out by now? I have received no communication on this, there is nothing on the Arcfinity tumblr and I’ve not received a single update about upcoming content. The competition link is still on the tumblr page and that closed sometime in July.

There is also nothing on The Tomorrow Project website.

Anybody know anything?

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Finished entry for Arc 1.4 competition

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So, I have now entered my first competition in 12 months. Last September, I submitted The Weight of Reason into the L. Ron Hubbard Writer’s of the Future competition. It was a big project, a story of which I am very proud because it took so much effort to complete not just my second story of the year, but what I feel is the best story I have written.

I didn’t win so I moved onward and upward and set myself goals for this year. The biggest of which, of course, is the intended ebook collection. I also wanted to start pursuing competitions for this year and now I have just entered the first of many. Continue reading →

Where is Arc 1.3?

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By my reckoning it is late.

Arc 1.1 was released on 15th Feb 2012.
Arc 1.2 was released on 24th May 2012.

It is a quarterly magazine so surely Arc 1.3 should be out by now? I have received no communication on this, there is nothing on the Arcfinity tumblr and I’ve not received a single update about upcoming content. The competition link is still on the tumblr page and that closed sometime in July.

There is also nothing on The Tomorrow Project website.

Anybody know anything?

Arc 1.2 Review

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The theme of this, the second volume of the Arcfinity ezine, is about the future of humanity, subtitled Post human conditions. Intriguing concept to deal with how humans will change in relation to technological advances of the future. I mentioned in my “first impressions” post that I had not heard of most of the contributors so this was a whole new ball game for me.

This volume is just as slick and professionally made. The only difference from volume 1.1 is that it has more images. It also has far more links which, if like me you have the basic Kindle, you will not be able to follow. This is unfortunate and will give a better experience if you have a tablet such as an ipad. For a magazine dedicated to Futurism, it is a shame that these things were not taken into account.

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Arc 1.2 – First impressions

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For those of you who didn’t already know, the second volume of Arcfinity was released yesterday. Like volume 1.1, Arc 1.2 comes in at a price of £4.99 and is a digital download only (presumably as before with a handful of print edition copies available that come with a hefty price tag).

Volume 1.2 is on a theme of humanity and the human condition in futurism and subtitled Post Human Conditions. Looking through the contents I’m afraid to say that this list of contributors is far less familiar to me than in Arc 1.1. Where I knew most of the names in the first volume, here I recogmise only Frederik Pohl and Jeff VanderMeer. Anne Galloway, Nick Harkaway, Sonja Vesterholt (who contributes Prometheus art), Paul McAuley, Regina Peldszus, T.D. Edge, Gord Sellar, P.D. Smith, Holly Gramazio and Kyle Munkittrick are completely alien to me. Feel free to berate me if I’m clearly not geeky enough in that respect. Continue reading →

British sci fi writers call for UK version of SEE

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A group of authors that includes Ken MacLeod and Alastair Reynolds has called for a UK version of the Science and Entertainment Exchange to unite the creative industries with working scientists. I’ve just read about what this American organisation does and personally, I’m not completely convinced either that a) it is necessary over here and b) it would work except to provide a handful of jobs to science graduates who either didn’t make it as a University researcher or perhaps didn’t want to do it.
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Not going to make another deadline

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Though work on the short story for my intended submission for Arcfinity is going as planned, I don’t think I’m going to make it. I could finish and submit in time but I know that I won’t be happy with the finished product. I always knew it was going to be a tight squeeze with such a short deadline for such intense content. If I’d read the first volume earlier I might have had more time to prepare the short story.
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I have my premise (Arc)

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For the Arc 1.2 short story competition. You may remember a few days ago when I posted the email that there must be strong emphasis on credibility of technology and of human interest.

The solution came to me at the weekend and I’ve decided that the setting will be a dinner date between two people who have wildly different views on a shared common interest. My personal views strongly echo one of these characters but it has been fun seeing it from the other side. I’ve been playing around with ideas tonight and have a cursory introduction typed up.

One way or another, all will be revealed soon.

Arc 1.1 Review

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Here then, at last is my review of the first volume of the Arc ezine. I’ve had to read it this weekend as I promised “Percolated Prose” that I would have a concept ready for her to ponder over by the close of play tomorrow and that required some research in reading the first edition. I must say that it is a slick and professional production that you would expect to see from New Scientist. Continue reading →