Vilandra
10-01-2005, 01:25 AM
Card Balances Projects
SF luminary Orson Scott Card told SCI FI Wire that he is fulfilling a 30-year dream with the creation of his new Web magazine, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. "I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first," he said in an interview. "It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas."
The magazine title was chosen in a competition among his peers. "It's not the vanity project it sounds like," he said. "The 'Orson Scott Card' part is really about Google. We want the magazine to pop up first if somebody Googles my name. But around here we just call it The Intergalactic Medicine Show."
Card said that editing other people's stories improved his own writing. "When it's someone else's story, it's easier to see structural and technical problems that are invisible in your own," he said.
Card's other current projects include a novel now titled Empire. "It's being developed as part of an overarching game, movie and novel franchise with Donald Mustard [lead designer of GlyphX] and his game-design team," he said. Card has worked with Mustard before, when he wrote the script for GlyphX's popular video game Advent Rising. "I like working with people who are smarter than me," Card said.
Editing a start-up magazine while maintaining a writing career has its drawbacks, Card said. "I've got two ridiculously overdue stories," he said. "Editors are probably burning little effigies of me right now."
Source: SciFi Wire (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=32632)
SF luminary Orson Scott Card told SCI FI Wire that he is fulfilling a 30-year dream with the creation of his new Web magazine, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. "I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first," he said in an interview. "It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas."
The magazine title was chosen in a competition among his peers. "It's not the vanity project it sounds like," he said. "The 'Orson Scott Card' part is really about Google. We want the magazine to pop up first if somebody Googles my name. But around here we just call it The Intergalactic Medicine Show."
Card said that editing other people's stories improved his own writing. "When it's someone else's story, it's easier to see structural and technical problems that are invisible in your own," he said.
Card's other current projects include a novel now titled Empire. "It's being developed as part of an overarching game, movie and novel franchise with Donald Mustard [lead designer of GlyphX] and his game-design team," he said. Card has worked with Mustard before, when he wrote the script for GlyphX's popular video game Advent Rising. "I like working with people who are smarter than me," Card said.
Editing a start-up magazine while maintaining a writing career has its drawbacks, Card said. "I've got two ridiculously overdue stories," he said. "Editors are probably burning little effigies of me right now."
Source: SciFi Wire (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=32632)