Author August at Science Fiction EZ Board

[Dead-Air]

I'd like to invite y'all to come over and post during Author August this 8/2005 at the Science Fiction EZ Board http://p090.ezboard.com/bsciencefiction

This month long event is in part an effort to rebuild our message board after a horrible hacker attack wiped out tons of posts across all of the EZ Board network. Obviously on a site full of book and movie reviews and comments this was particularly frustrating. So I dreamt up this event and my fellow administrators thought it was a great idea.

Each day will feature a different author and all who come to the board will be encouraged to post something about them, be it biographical, a book review, a comment, joke, or some research they just did on the web. The authors so far confirmed are:

8/1 Robert A. Heinlein
8/2 Clifford D. Simak
8/3 Jack Williamson
8/4 Andre Norton
8/5 Chad Oliver

Michael Moorcock is of course a shoe-in sometime during the month, but has actually yet to have been nominated. Up until the month fills with writers to write about, we're accepting additional nominations here:

http://p090.ezboard.com/fsciencefict...icID=110.topic

[FlyingElvis]

Yikes, reading that board hurts. 8O

But thanks, looks like good stuff otherwise.

[Dead-Air]

Hmm. You're actually the second person ever to mention that reaction to the color scheme (I presume that's what hurts.) I didn't design it, but it actually helped pull me in. Not that I don't like the peaceful blues and grays of Berry's board right here, but I like a little variety in my internet too. Your reaction is completely valid, but kind of a case of not being able to please everyone every time. Glad you like the content which is what counts any way.

[Dead-Air]

Michael Moorcock is now the Featured Author for Friday, August 12th! Here is the list for the entire first two weeks (in progress of course):

8/1 Robert A. Heinlein
8/2 Clifford D. Simak
8/3 Jack Williamson
8/4 Andre Norton
8/5 Chad Oliver
8/6 Elizabeth Moon
8/7 Harlan Ellison
8/8 Jack Vance
8/9 Cordwainer Smith
8/10 Sheri S Tepper
8/11 William Gibson
8/12 Michael Moorcock
8/13 Howard Waldrop
8/14 Adam Roberts

And yes, we are still taking nominations for authors for the rest of the month, so feel free to hop on over!

http://p090.ezboard.com/fsciencefict...icID=110.topic

[Dead-Air]

Michael Moorcock is the Featured Author for the next 24 hours:

http://p090.ezboard.com/fsciencefictionfrm2

Here's our updated list for the month so far:

8/1 Robert A. Heinlein
8/2 Clifford D. Simak
8/3 Jack Williamson
8/4 Andre Norton
8/5 Chad Oliver
8/6 Elizabeth Moon
8/7 Harlan Ellison
8/8 Jack Vance
8/9 Cordwainer Smith
8/10 Sheri S Tepper
8/11 William Gibson
8/12 Michael Moorcock
8/13 Howard Waldrop
8/14 Adam Roberts
8/15 Henry Kuttner
8/16 C. L. Moore
8/17 Poul Anderson
8/18 H. G. Wells
8/19 Kathleen Ann Goonan
8/20 Phillip K. Dick
8/21 Isaac Asimov

Nominations are still open for the last few days of the month as well:

http://p090.ezboard.com/fsciencefict...icID=110.topic

[Dead-Air]

And here's what the 4th week of the month looks like:

8/22 Thomas M Disch
8/23 Leigh Brackett
8/24 Phillip Jose Farmer
8/25 C. J. Cherryh
8/26 Norman Spinrad
8/27 Samuel R. Delany
8/28 Spider Robinson

And yes, we are still taking nominations for authors for the last few days of the month, so feel free to hop on over!

http://p090.ezboard.com/fsciencefict...icID=110.topic

[Dead-Air]

Here is the list of authors for the entire month!
(in progress of course):

8/1 Robert A. Heinlein
8/2 Clifford D. Simak
8/3 Jack Williamson
8/4 Andre Norton
8/5 Chad Oliver
8/6 Elizabeth Moon
8/7 Harlan Ellison
8/8 Jack Vance
8/9 Cordwainer Smith
8/10 Sheri S Tepper
8/11 William Gibson
8/12 Michael Moorcock
8/13 Howard Waldrop
8/14 Adam Roberts
8/15 Henry Kuttner
8/16 C. L. Moore
8/17 Poul Anderson
8/18 H. G. Wells
8/19 Kathleen Ann Goonan
8/20 Phillip K. Dick
8/21 Isaac Asimov
8/22 Thomas M Disch
8/23 Leigh Brackett
8/24 Phillip Jose Farmer
8/25 C. J. Cherryh
8/26 Norman Spinrad
8/27 Samuel R. Delany
8/28 Spider Robinson
8/29 Douglas Adams
8/30 J. G. Ballard
8/31 Robert Silverberg

Thanks to all those who nominated authors and please come and post for the remaining days of this fantastic month long celebration. Playing catch up on those you missed is completely welcomed too!

http://p090.ezboard.com/fsciencefictionfrm2

[Dead-Air]

Well, we've reached our last day of our month long celebration, and of course we're going out with yet another bang, http://p090.ezboard.com/fsciencefict...picID=98.topic Robert Silverberg!

Our little experiment has turned out great with lots of new discussions and shared information about fantastic authors. Of course you can still hop on over and post or read any time. Author August has been a concentrated effort in building (and after the EZ Hack, rebuilding) a valuable resource for science fiction fans to come to again and again.

In September, we intend to take things a little bit slower on the "official front" with a http://p090.ezboard.com/fsciencefict...picID=10.topic group read of the Poul Anderson tale The Enemy Stars.