Introduce yourself and say 'Hi'. This is the thread to say 'Hello' in (v3)!

[adiyar94]

I will try.

 

[Av Demeisen]

@adiyar94 Welcome!

 

[V. P. Rigel]

Hi there, I'm V. P. Rigel
I am 35, married, living in Europe, and Sagittarius in the horoscope (in case anyone is into those things).
For the past eight years I have been working in the comic book industry as a color artist mostly for bunch of US and e
European publishers, but after a few years the number of ideas and desire to tell my own stories took over my mind, and I finally started to express myself through written word starting this January (I still work on comics as a day job, just not in such amount as before).
I began writing tweet fiction, instagram poetry, short stories, and my first novel Fru and the Magic Sword.
I also created a podcast titled FLASH DRIVE STORIES to tie all this up and add another dimension to it. You can listen to it on itunes, stitcher & podbean.
But besides all this, I love both SF (Dick, Herbert, Asimov, Gibson are my favorites) and fantasy ( Sanderson, Jordan, Pratchett and Willams are my fantasy favs). Both my wife and I are tv & movie junkies and we devour series and everything that comes out almost on a daily basis. When I was younger I literally lived World of Warcraft for a few months (hey I was single, in college and the world was ugly). As the years went by, my gaming time was shrinking, but I still love a good RPG from time to time.
Love both mac and pc LOL.
Oh yeah, and I got a Msc degree in Computer Sciences, because nerds are cool, right?

So there you have it.
After a week or two of lurking, reading and getting familiar with the forums, I have decided to come out of my shell and say hi!

 

[adiyar94]

Hello. Nice to meet you

 

[AlexIsNotARobot]

I have noticed. That there are many authors I haven't read. And entire genres I haven't heard about. I feel like a barbarian in Rome.

It's hard to keep up these days. I just browse the main categories for science fiction and fantasy. Sometimes I'll go as far as Steampunk and try to dodge between the teenage Romance avalanche.

 

[grimshawl]

Hello everyone. I am new here obviously and thought I would say hi first before wandering around on the forums a bit and seeing whats what.

 

[Windshadow]

Hello everyone. I am new here obviously and thought I would say hi first before wandering around on the forums a bit and seeing whats what.

Welcome you will find this a friendly place and only a few of us byte

 

[Frau Blücher]

Hello there!

I'll make it short: the name's Christine, born in the era of moon landings, German, an avid reader of Horror and SciFi literature (Fantasy does nothing for me), and the lack of active german forums regarding my passion led me to this place. Yes, there are german-speaking book forums, but none of them are useful as a source of information about my favourite genres and styles, usually there's too much YA, "fluff" and/or romance involved.

Some favourite authors are Robert Sheckley (I adore his short stories!), Clive Barker, Stephen King (when he's good, he's excellent, when he's bad, oh my), Jeff Strand, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, Stephen Laws, Ray Bradbury, etc. And yes, I grew up with hundreds of weekly Perry Rhodan novels, regardless of my mother's efforts to chuck them out as soon as she spotted a new issue of those "idiotic pulp magazines"

And please, excuse my sometimes garbled English, even though I read most of my books in this language (ereaders and their built in dictionaries are a blessing), I understand it much better than speaking or writing it. Since I'm more of a lurker than a writer, it should be ok. I hope so

 

[Prairie_Dog]

Hello there!

I'll make it short: the name's Christine, born in the era of moon landings, German, an avid reader of Horror and SciFi literature (Fantasy does nothing for me), and the lack of active german forums regarding my passion led me to this place. Yes, there are german-speaking book forums, but none of them are useful as a source of information about my favourite genres and styles, usually there's too much YA, "fluff" and/or romance involved.

Some favourite authors are Robert Sheckley (I adore his short stories!), Clive Barker, Stephen King (when he's good, he's excellent, when he's bad, oh my), Jeff Strand, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, Stephen Laws, Ray Bradbury, etc. And yes, I grew up with hundreds of weekly Perry Rhodan novels, regardless of my mother's efforts to chuck them out as soon as she spotted a new issue of those "idiotic pulp magazines"

And please, excuse my sometimes garbled English, even though I read most of my books in this language (ereaders and their built in dictionaries are a blessing), I understand it much better than speaking or writing it. Since I'm more of a lurker than a writer, it should be ok. I hope so

Welcome Christine! SFF World is quite an international site, and there are quite a few Europeans that participate here regularly. Hope you find some things here to discuss with us!

 

[AtlasTheToad]

Hello there!

Name's Atlas, favorite animal are Toads, and I like writing and reading. Unfortunately, tech school for the Air National Guard has eaten up a lot of my time to do either of those. I'm hoping to get the creative juices flowing here and present some of my writing as well.

I'm a real big reader and writer of Sci-Fi and Apocalyptic writing, but I do read Fantasy and Horror every now and again. I sometimes write short comedies with my girlfriend as well. All my writing is short as of now, but I'm looking to increase the length and magnitude of my writing over time.

I'll cease my rambling for now! Thanks for having this site available to me.

 

[Facing]

Hello there!

Name's Atlas, favorite animal are Toads, and I like writing and reading. Unfortunately, tech school for the Air National Guard has eaten up a lot of my time to do either of those. I'm hoping to get the creative juices flowing here and present some of my writing as well.

I'm a real big reader and writer of Sci-Fi and Apocalyptic writing, but I do read Fantasy and Horror every now and again. I sometimes write short comedies with my girlfriend as well. All my writing is short as of now, but I'm looking to increase the length and magnitude of my writing over time.

I'll cease my rambling for now! Thanks for having this site available to me.

Welcome aboard. You might want to hop over to the writer's sub forum. There's always lots going on. I'm on my phone or I'd post links for you but there's a monthly motivational thread, multiple contests etc.

 

[Frau Blücher]

Welcome Christine! SFF World is quite an international site, and there are quite a few Europeans that participate here regularly. Hope you find some things here to discuss with us!

Thank you for the welcome! I'm sure there'll be some topics where I'll participate, but for now I'm reading through pages and pages of interesting threads. My amazon wishlist is growing rapidly!

 

[Tofit]

Hello everyone. I'm Tofit the traveling silk merchant. I'm also a bit of a space traveler. I've seen many moons, and planets. I know that we aren't alone in the universe and there's many stories in our galaxy that have gone untold. It's quite a dangerous journey in outer space, asteroid belts, torrents, chasms, whirlpools, black holes, quasars, and so many other threats that loom in space.
Most of the time I prefer tuning into space tv where I watch television from alien civilizations. I once built a space hotel that was used for a great time travel party, it had great pluming and silk bedding. Unfortunately it was only used once, some of the alien visitors left it in such a state of disarray that no one would ever want to come back.
Anyhow I have many tales to tell, and so little time.

 

[Ken Fabian]

Hi, I'm a long time science fiction (mostly) and fantasy (sometimes) reader. Not so much movies or TV - but that could be because I'm a reader and the book is usually better! Perhaps not all that widely read when I think about it.

Favourite authors include Vernor Vinge, Joan Vinge (hoping we might see new material from Joan), Lois Bujold, CJ Cherryh on the SF side. Robin Hobb and Lois Bujold on the F side. Plus some stories and authors that never made it that big - Cherry Wilder's "Luck of Brin's Five" or "Second Nature", or Paul O Williams' "The Man from Far Cloud" or MA Foster's Morphodite and Ler stories (for the originality but less for the style). More than that, now I think - Octavia Butler's "Xenogenesis" (stories where humans don't always win in the end - the victories are those of losers surviving and coping and being changed in the process).

I used to be able to read anything put in front of me, but lately I'm finding it harder to persist with books that lack originality - of ideas or of style - and I am less tolerant of inconsistencies and mistakes, whether they get the real universe and tech wrong or whether their fictional ones are not portrayed consistently. I suppose I see SF as a kind of Fantasy with a "this really could happen someday, someplace" element to give it a bit more conviction - although a lot of it is not like that. I'm not so taken by stories that combine SF with supernatural or other Fantasy themes - something authors like Peter Hamilton or Dan Simmons have done. Better taken separately in my view.

I look forward to some interesting discussions.

 

[Prairie_Dog]

Hi, I'm a long time science fiction (mostly) and fantasy (sometimes) reader. Not so much movies or TV - but that could be because I'm a reader and the book is usually better! Perhaps not all that widely read when I think about it.

Favourite authors include Vernor Vinge, Joan Vinge (hoping we might see new material from Joan), Lois Bujold, CJ Cherryh on the SF side. Robin Hobb and Lois Bujold on the F side. Plus some stories and authors that never made it that big - Cherry Wilder's "Luck of Brin's Five" or "Second Nature", or Paul O Williams' "The Man from Far Cloud" or MA Foster's Morphodite and Ler stories (for the originality but less for the style). More than that, now I think - Octavia Butler's "Xenogenesis" (stories where humans don't always win in the end - the victories are those of losers surviving and coping and being changed in the process).

I used to be able to read anything put in front of me, but lately I'm finding it harder to persist with books that lack originality - of ideas or of style - and I am less tolerant of inconsistencies and mistakes, whether they get the real universe and tech wrong or whether their fictional ones are not portrayed consistently. I suppose I see SF as a kind of Fantasy with a "this really could happen someday, someplace" element to give it a bit more conviction - although a lot of it is not like that. I'm not so taken by stories that combine SF with supernatural or other Fantasy themes - something authors like Peter Hamilton or Dan Simmons have done. Better taken separately in my view.

I look forward to some interesting discussions.

Welcome Ken!

I too wish we could see some new material from Joan Vinge, I always enjoyed her work.

There’s lots of discussion of literary science fiction here on SFF World, and fantasy as well. I think you’ll find plenty of readers and even writers to interact with. There’s some other discussions as well, feel free to join in where you have interest or inclination.

 

[MaeOrwell]

Hi, I'm Mae, and my particular blend of sci-fi geekery tends toward dystopian, post-apocalyptic, and other near-future scenarios. I read A Clockwork Orange in middle school and got so into it I made my own dictionary out of Burgess' slang (this was before the miracle of the internet meant you could just google it - real horrorshow). That was and is my favorite dystopian novel, and some of my other favorites have grown to include Huxley, Orwell, King, Cline, Herbert, Pratchett and Vonnegut, among others.

As for me, I'm living the dream as a full-time writer in another genre, and I've had a sort of Douglas Adams-esque manuscript on my hard drive since December that I think needs a couple of friends to round out the series, so that's what I'm currently working on in my free time.

Nice to meet you all and I'll see you around!
Mae

 

[Prairie_Dog]

Welcome Mae!

There are a lot of writers on SFF World, many of notable accomplishments. I’m sure you can find common interest with them regardless of genre.

We also have a lot of readers, and a lot of post apocalyptic fiction gets discussed here. I’m particularly fond of the Apocalypse Triptych edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apocalypse_Triptych

 

[MaeOrwell]

We also have a lot of readers, and a lot of post apocalyptic fiction gets discussed here. I’m particularly fond of the Apocalypse Triptych edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apocalypse_Triptych

Nice, thanks for the recommendation - I'll check that out!

 

[daddydell]

I'm Daddy.
I'm a new member of the forum, very pleased to be acquainted and make friends to share everything in life with people.
Especially learned from the forum.​

 

[Ashmor]

Hi guys! I’m Victor. I’m extremely fond of sci-fi and urban fantasy genres. One of my all-time favorite authors is Philip K. Dick. Yet I’ve read many other awesome authors and ever been looking for new amazing writers. I’m an aspiring writer myself as well and have recently self-published my first novella in a urban fantasy genre. So yeah. Glad to have joined the forum and am delighted to make your acquaintance. Hope I’ll make friends here, discover new marvelous authors to read or maybe even find some beta readers for my next book.