New UK fiction mag starts up, free wiki textbooks for developing nations, reality bites Charlie Stross…

• 1 – Fiction Magazine
  A new UK genre short story market seems to be about to emerge. I wish them luck, but is this really the best time to be launching a print magazine? Free sample copy available for a limited period, though, so may as well click on through and see what the f
  (tags: launch magazine literature horror fantasy sf scifi fiction science genre stories short writing UK)
• 2 – Unbelievable Fiction
  “Yes, fiction can teach us facts, but not when it is written by authors who have forgotten they are telling a story and have started to believe this makes them experts on their subject.” Philip Ball takes the boot to Michael Crichton.
  (tags: Crichton Michael change climate misinformation facts sf scifi fiction science literature books)
• 3 – Global Text Project To Create Free Wiki Textbooks For Developing Nations
  “To make education more accessible, a professor… is spearheading an effort to produce free online textbooks using a modified version of the Wiki software that powers the Web site Wikipedia.” Good call.
  (tags: source open education access free textbooks nations developing wiki)
• 4 – Build Your Own (Virtual) Village, One Business at a Time
  “What do you get when you mix SimCity with social entrepreneurship? Village, a multiplayer strategy game that puts the BOP hypothesis to work.” Worldchanging reports.
  (tags: futurism commerce business virtual games sustainability social)
• 5 – Nasa hopes to catch an elevator to space
  “Each of the groups that will gather in New Mexico is competing to win a Nasa prize set up to encourage entrepreneurs to start development work on the technology needed to create a space elevator.” Teh Grauniad reports.
  (tags: beanstalk NASA orbit access science futurism elevator space)
• 6 – Truth Overtakes Fiction in Strangeness Department
  “So I just had a big reality check on that “near future SF” novel I’m writing. No, it isn’t “near future SF” — it’s lab prototype stage already, and if I still want it to be SF I’ve got to crank the weirdness up a bit higher.” Reality bites Charlie Stro
  (tags: catch-up reality novel writing sf scifi fiction science future near Stross Charles)

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