[SKRIVA] Arc söker noveller tema "pleasure"

From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 21:17:25 +0200
Från senaste infoutskicket från New Scientists sf-anknutna blaska Arc: 
"Meanwhile, we are ready to roll again - and this time we are looking for short 
stories, between 3000 and 5000 words, exploring the future of pleasure. What 
new games will we play? How will we indulge ourselves, and at what cost? What 
new joys will the future hold?Pleasure is, strangely, a rare subject for 
science fiction. This is partly, I suppose, to do with Thomas Hardy's dictum 
that "Light writes white". It's hard to engage a reader with tales of other 
people having a nice time. But pleasures exact their costs, and there have been 
a few works that attempt to explore the rigours, as well as the joys, of 
bringing pleasure to others. Some of Jack Vance's books gave more than cursory 
attention to the business of music-making; Spider Robinson and his wife Jeanne 
wrote not one but three books about the choreographic possibilities of zero 
gravity - Jeanne's dance project nudges ever closer to being performed for 
real.More often, pleasure turns out to be a primrose path to perdition. Though 
when the nightmares are as considered and as sharply drawn as Dick's Martian 
Time-Slip, say, or David Cronenberg's Videodrome, only a fool would complain. 
There are very few works that make stories out of games. John Brunner's Squares 
of the City connected pervasive gaming to urban planning to the surveillance 
state in 1965, for heaven's sake, but few writers have interrogated the 
territory since. (If I'm missing a trick here - there surely must be examples 
I'm forgetting - drop a comment on our blog.)So, if you want to write for Arc, 
here's your challenge. Enter our third short story competition and share with 
us your vision of the future of pleasure, entertainment, games, toys and fun. 
And if you need inspiration, you will find some of these themes explored in Arc 
1.3: Welcome to the Afterparty, out on 24 September for iPads and iPhones, for 
Kindle, for Android devices, Windows and Mac computers, and as a collectible 
print edition.Technology, in whatever guise - from robotics to synthetic 
biology to geoengineering - should feature prominently, but we're looking for 
fiction, not raw opinion, and the human element will have to be 
compelling.Anyone, anywhere in the world can enter. Entries must be received by 
23:59 on Sunday 14 October 2012. Arc's editors will select one story for 
publication in Arc 1.4, out this December. We will pay £500 for that story and 
£200 for each of five runners-up. We will use all of these stories to stimulate 
conversations about the future on The Tomorrow Project website.More details, 
including full terms and conditions, are at arcfinity.org/submit" --Ahrvid

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