Should have spent the weekend humming the Pythons' ode to spam - but, as I have an eight-year old rendering the Disney-saccharine songs of Frozen to burrow into my brain, that isn't my current earworm of somebody else's choice - I didn't.
Why? Well, taking an occasional - very, very occasional, probably the first time in two or three years - look at my email spam for a completely unrelated reason, I found that Daily Science Fiction had picked up my story 'My Avatar has an Avatar' more than a month before.
Naturally chuffed as, having chosen to target only SFWA-accredited markets, this was my first sci-fi short story acceptance in, oh, about two years. Also provides a marker against the growing evidence that I can't actually write. Of course, I like to believe that it's more a question of editors signing up to my particular and singular vision but, nevertheless, it was looking a bit bleak. So regards to Jonathan an Michele at Daily Science Fiction; toffs, scholars and gents both.
But it did get me thinking. What if spam filters weren't just on email? What if you had them on your brain? How would you set them? What would be the effects? How would it impact on your daily life? There's a story there.
Maybe the mental firewalls are there already. It would explain why I don't retain everything the good lady wife says to me (or, perhaps that's the early onset dementia). Is there a whole layer of reality which we're missing? Matrix-like, is there more to the world than we're aware of, a cross-cognitive equivalent of the visual blind spot?
I'll dwell on such thoughts and see if a story emerges...
Why? Well, taking an occasional - very, very occasional, probably the first time in two or three years - look at my email spam for a completely unrelated reason, I found that Daily Science Fiction had picked up my story 'My Avatar has an Avatar' more than a month before.
Naturally chuffed as, having chosen to target only SFWA-accredited markets, this was my first sci-fi short story acceptance in, oh, about two years. Also provides a marker against the growing evidence that I can't actually write. Of course, I like to believe that it's more a question of editors signing up to my particular and singular vision but, nevertheless, it was looking a bit bleak. So regards to Jonathan an Michele at Daily Science Fiction; toffs, scholars and gents both.
But it did get me thinking. What if spam filters weren't just on email? What if you had them on your brain? How would you set them? What would be the effects? How would it impact on your daily life? There's a story there.
Maybe the mental firewalls are there already. It would explain why I don't retain everything the good lady wife says to me (or, perhaps that's the early onset dementia). Is there a whole layer of reality which we're missing? Matrix-like, is there more to the world than we're aware of, a cross-cognitive equivalent of the visual blind spot?
I'll dwell on such thoughts and see if a story emerges...
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