Patrick St-Denis has just posted an interview with me on his popular Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist blog . Subjects covered include Infoquake , MultiReal , Lou Anders and Pyr, my strengths as a storyteller, the John W. Campbell Award, cover art, websites and interactivity with readers, the trend of high-quality British SF, and whether SF will ever get proper literary recognition by snooty academics cowering...

... Channel Mixer, and texture PSD: Yes, under the cut. This tutorial really isn't that hard, just long! If you're lazy, just grab the .PSD :) First off, make your base. I used this image from Pat's MySpace . Then I cropped it down to 100x100 pixels and got this: It's very dark, obviously. You don't have to do this, but I duplicated my base twice and set them both to Screen at 100%. Make...

... Very very very simple Works Best With: Dark Images This tutorial is to make the "navy blue set to exclusion" effect a bit softer. Anyways, start off with your image. I used this image from Pat Kirch's MySpace . Then I cropped it down to this: You see it's very, very dark. So I duplicated it twice. I set both of them to Screen at 100%. Next I added the main step: a color fill layer with...

What does love mean to you, and why? Have you always felt this way? Submitted by rynanne View other answers I could not pass this up. Love is different now.  It used to...why live life?  What is there to look forward to?  Yeah, I have things like a possible job and whatnot, but I don't want to have material things as the only happiness in my life. So yeah, that's love

...because after like 20 minutes it turned back on.but we were closer to my girlfriends parents house so we drove there to drop the car off.while we were there the garage door was open and either me or pat let the cats outside by accident. we had to look for them one was under a car in the driveway the other went on the other side of the fence.her parents were at crue fest so they didn't get back till...

My mom sent me a newspaper clipping of a longer article about Pat -- sort of a combination obituary and life retrospective. I am posting a transcription for my own reference, since the newspaper in question does not have a free online archive (and their fees are outrageous!). Pat's relatives' names have been altered to maintain their privacy. Pat Selvage's life: A profile in courage Diminutive...

Pat and I don't talk often but I really treasure when we do. Is he called pat now? i think they call him john now. whatever, hell always be pat to me. we were really close when we were younger. we met in 7th grade so i guess i was 12 then? and found out we lived in the same development, and that our siblings had been friends when they were younger. we def liked each other at one point too, but now...

... while she was barely able to pick at what she had. Steph's chest tubes are all gone.  She is still catheterized, and is getting oxygen through a nasal tube, but it is not quite as disturbing as when Pat and I first saw her post-surgery. During the day today, Steph had several brief episodes of tachycardia (rapid heartbeat).  The highest I usually see it is around 102, although it's usually in the...

Pat is headed back to Columbus, with a midnight ETA, I am settling into Room 107, my studio apartment at the Cleveland Sight Center--home sweet home for the next week, I think.  Steph is in a substance-induced and -maintained very deep sleep in the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit on the fifth floor of the Clinic's G Building. Pat and I met with Dr. Lytle early this evening.  At 4:30, I left the...