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November Theme; REAL SCIENCE!
Nov. 1st, 2014 07:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dialecticdreamerScience Bingo for November 2014
There's so much going on in science now that I can't keep up beyond bullet points unless it is a deep interest, and even then it's difficult to get past thimble-sized summaries. Most of these are outside my usual interests, and I haven't even scratched the surface of entirely new /fields/ which have spawned in the last ten years. So, I'm inviting creative types to dip their toes into using cutting-edge science in their fiction.
I can't be the only person wishing for more science in their science fiction, especially, but these topics are the ones I felt could be used in any genre of story, along with a few surprising effects, just to get the creativity machine fired up.
As in most bingo challenges, the topic can't be tossed out in a single line. It must play an important part in the story. But, given that it's scientific and techological material, /show it in use/. Show the wrecked lab, show the exobiologist struggling with overdue student loans and scathing emails deriding his or her waste of time and talent.
I'm going to be busy with a hefty goal of my own for the month, but I'm again offering a reward. (Likely to arrive the first week of December, people, so please /remind me/ if your fill hasn't come in by the 7th?) For everyone who gets a bingo, I will write a short fic to amuse and entertain from your prompt, guaranteeing a minimum 200 words. For the deeply ambitious, more than one bingo gives the option of either continuing the first fill or a new one.
For the recklessly adventurous, there is a new kind of bingo fill, a 9-prompt array meant to represent the letter 's' for the STRANGE quark... Admitting a fascination, and endless reading about it in middle school dates me both as a geek and a living organism but I don't mind!) Read the cells of the bingo card across, as numbers 1-5, the next row as 6-10 (with 6 below 1) et cetera. [Edited due to math fail. Sorry!]
The fill: 2, 3, 4, 7, 13 (free space), 19, 22, 23, and 24. This can shift one column left or right, but doesn't 'read' as a letter horizontally.
The reward for an S-fill: a 400-word minimum fic to your prompt.
The amazingmagibrain has listed this as Science Bingo, Nov 2014 in the pulldown list for their bingo generator. Thanks X 1,000!
A second, public card:
There's so much going on in science now that I can't keep up beyond bullet points unless it is a deep interest, and even then it's difficult to get past thimble-sized summaries. Most of these are outside my usual interests, and I haven't even scratched the surface of entirely new /fields/ which have spawned in the last ten years. So, I'm inviting creative types to dip their toes into using cutting-edge science in their fiction.
I can't be the only person wishing for more science in their science fiction, especially, but these topics are the ones I felt could be used in any genre of story, along with a few surprising effects, just to get the creativity machine fired up.
As in most bingo challenges, the topic can't be tossed out in a single line. It must play an important part in the story. But, given that it's scientific and techological material, /show it in use/. Show the wrecked lab, show the exobiologist struggling with overdue student loans and scathing emails deriding his or her waste of time and talent.
I'm going to be busy with a hefty goal of my own for the month, but I'm again offering a reward. (Likely to arrive the first week of December, people, so please /remind me/ if your fill hasn't come in by the 7th?) For everyone who gets a bingo, I will write a short fic to amuse and entertain from your prompt, guaranteeing a minimum 200 words. For the deeply ambitious, more than one bingo gives the option of either continuing the first fill or a new one.
For the recklessly adventurous, there is a new kind of bingo fill, a 9-prompt array meant to represent the letter 's' for the STRANGE quark... Admitting a fascination, and endless reading about it in middle school dates me both as a geek and a living organism but I don't mind!) Read the cells of the bingo card across, as numbers 1-5, the next row as 6-10 (with 6 below 1) et cetera. [Edited due to math fail. Sorry!]
The fill: 2, 3, 4, 7, 13 (free space), 19, 22, 23, and 24. This can shift one column left or right, but doesn't 'read' as a letter horizontally.
The reward for an S-fill: a 400-word minimum fic to your prompt.
The amazing
magibrain has listed this as Science Bingo, Nov 2014 in the pulldown list for their bingo generator. Thanks X 1,000!A second, public card:
| weaponizing science | biochemistry | geology | SETI | biology |
| botany | topology | exogeology | environmental studies | NASA |
| synthetic hormones | optics | FREE SPACE | solar flares | confusion |
| elecromagnetism | nuclear physics | criminology | microbiology | failure |
| sensory technology | WHO | radiation | entheogens | toxins |
