Tuesday's Ten Minute Tale - the setup!

It's the usual... the first three people to post with a word, phrase, topic, theme, name, or whatever, dictate the direction of the story. I'll endeavour to incorporate all three suggestions, and write it within ten minutes of receiving the third post, work allowing. Then I'll post the result.

The first word is already in, "maleficent" by asimmum. Two to go. :)

Tuesday's Ten Minute Tale - the result!

Here we go. Thanks to asimmum for "maleficent", devinjay for "oriental" and chrisb74 for "fedex".

( Maleficent's Fall, (c) Martin Livings 19-2-2008 )

2012

Where will the world be in four years’ time?

Eleven of Australia’s top authors take a guess in 2012. Each story imagines the world as it might be, presenting unique possibilities for the very near future. There are dark visions of water and oil shortages, terrorism, climate change, global and regional politics, the limiting of personal freedoms such as free speech, struggles with the ethics of genetic engineering and bioengineering, alien conspiracies, and the impact of technology on industry. There are personal stories here too – of the way these things might impact on families, and how we at an individual level might react to the catastrophes predicted to lie ahead.

Each of these stories presents an original take on the imminent future of humanity. Each has something to say about who we are and who we might want to be. 2012 is both a call to imagine the future of the world and a call to create it.

Deborah Biancotti Martin Livings Dirk Flinthart David Conyers
Simon Brown Lucy Sussex Tansy Rayner Roberts Kaaron Warren Angela Slatter
Ben Peek Sean McMullen

I gotta say, I'm proud as hell to be in this collection. I mean, geez louise, look at the author list! Ten of Australia's top authors, and then me! Pick the odd one out!

You can preorder it for twenty dollars off the Ticonderoga website, or buy it straight from the publisher here.