July 3, 2009 7:13 PM PDT

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IMAGINARIES

Imaginaries, formerly the mouthful "The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' Co-operative", is a global writers' co-operative for science fiction, fantasy, horror, and whatever else happens to slip through the cracks; we work together to improve each-other's writing by sharing works, ideas, news, and criticism. Membership is open to anyone interested in participating in this process. To learn more, see the FAQ, or just poke around for a bit.

MOST RECENT CRUCIBLE ENTRIES

The Box (by DFoytik)
Scifi Mystery PG 2272 words 23-Jun-09
the big bang first three chapters (by Sarah Cohenim)
Scifi - 2000 words 19-Jun-09
The Pilot: It's a Strange World (by collin)
Scifi PG-13 17700 words 06-Jun-09

RECENT CHALLENGES (must be a member)

By the light of the silvery Moon. Entries due by July 10, 2009 11:59 PM PDT
The theme is Moon. Which leaves a lot of options open for horror(e.g. were-wolves), romance, fantasy(e.g. magic) , sci-fi (e.g. space travel or space colonization), or combination (e.g. were-wolf, mage newlyweds traveling to a moon to start a new colony). This is a 500 word max challenge, and I'm giving everyone 3 weeks to moon me. Have fun
Assassin's Creed
Silent and deadly with an arsenal of devious, lethal contraptions, bumbling and inane and hopelessly overmatched by his target. Or just someone thrust into a circumstance that leads them to contemplate murder. All types of assassins and all types of assassinations are welcome in the Assassin's Creed anthology. http://www.utilityfogpress.com
The Apocalypse Challenge
Entries must be science fiction, fantasy or horror and incorporate the theme of apocalypse in some way. http://www.furtivelabors.com/contest.htm

RECENT POLLS (must be a member)

2009 1st qrtly challenge topic
Select your challenge topic. Devil's Food, Assassin's Creed, and the two First Line options are for specific markets.
4th Quarter Challenge Theme
Arrange your favorite Challenge themes in the spaces below for the 4th quarter of 2006.
3rd Quarter Challenge 2006
Vote for your favorite theme for the 3rd Quarter Challenge for 2006. Get your votes in by the end of Sunday, August 13. Let's make the story up to 5,000 words and have it due by Sept. 31, 2006

NEWS

Current and not-so-current happenings

August 16, 2006

In an effort to show that this place is fairly active, despite the static homepage... I made the homepage less static. Now you'll hardly notice the news happenings because of the "most recent crucible entries", "recent polls", and "recent challenges" above it.

Also I added some quicklinks and explanation from the crucible page, AND and AND added an atom feed for the crucible so folks can see what stuff comes in!

Feb 19, 2006 to Mar 1, 2006 MAR 8, 2006 STILL OPEN!

2005 RSA Voting -- DEADLINE EXTENDED INDEFINITELY

Send your votes to allanmcdonald [AT] mac [DOT] com in the form of:

  • Top three crucible entries
  • Top three challenge entries

In both cases include the story and the author. It would help when sending to put "RSA Awards" in the subject so my mail filter will catch it.

Dec 16, 2005
We're not dead yet! There's a constant undercurrent of postings and crittings, and the odd spurt of discussion. Now, with Wiki! We're testing out using a MediaWiki to work on some shared worlds, including the old Co-op world. There are currently two challenges outstanding (entries due Jan4 and Feb5, respectively), and four items in the crucible. Have at!
May 1, 2005
Site is on a new server. Was down for maybe two hours. Mail may still be quirky--about to test that (as of 4:30pm Pacific time)
Feb 3, 2005
The site's been seeing some activity. It's nice. Still a lot of work to do. But I posted Lesleigh's "First Line" workshop thing, and there's a "Double Story" challenge going on.
October 19, 2004
NEW SITE LIVE. Mailing lists are up. If you have an old account, the process to upgrading to a new account is to try to log in and then follow the instructions from there (you should be given special instructions). TODO: move old stories + workshop info, move rising star awards, implement rising star awards "system", implement crit system, add 'bounce' testing to mailing lists, add bounce mail to addresses trying to post that are not members, implement news system, transfer old 'news' items, create 'links' and transfer old 'links'. Maybe make the 'last three lines of chat' show up somewhere unobtrusive on the site. Maybe add a 'suggestions' or 'bulletin' board. Implement challenge submission system. Transfer old challenges and old challenge submissions.
September 6, 2004
I still need to wrap this "news" stuff. And decide what exactly's going to go in it. For now, TODO: move old stories + workshop info, move rising star awards, implement rising star awards "system", implement vote resolution system, implement crit system, implement mailing lists, implement news system, transfer old 'news' items, create 'links' and transfer old 'links'. Maybe make the 'last three lines of chat' show up somewhere unobtrusive on the site. Maybe add a 'suggestions' or 'bulletin' board. Implement challenge submission system. Transfer old challenges and old challenge submissions. Deem the new site good enough and move it over, retiring the old site.
April 9, 2003
begin redesign based on pasi's info and thoughts and whatnot. TODO: finalize look, better spider, maybe do UML modeling and feature list and all that good stuff, figure out the methodology for dynamically changing the locationbar. dynamically change "section" bar? or add to it when in deeper areas? links to members on front page should be links to their member info. ascertain strategy for moving old code. figure out what goes in newsbox and how that's archived... don't forget voting booth... rsa nominations... rewrite of faqs (once again)... linking to legacy areas (once again.......)... find somewhere or somewhy to put in a calendar? suggestions board?
2003
Site redeveloped in jsp (yeah, I know...)
2000
Site redeveloped in jsp, then php
1999
Renamed "Imaginaries"
1998
Kaolin Fire was duped into taking over. ;) Site migrated from AOL to cgi on transbay. site actually written in c!
1996
The "Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Co-operative" was founded back in 1996 or so by one Mark Bonica. Site developed in pure html.