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Re:"Four Seconds to Hot Up the Disintegrator, Google Had Tol... by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @03:30PM (#41571693)
I can't remember the details, but sometime in the '70s or '80s a sci-fi magazine ran a context: take a short text (something like "a man gets onto a bus and notices another man wearing an unusual hat") and rewrite it in the distinctive style of a sci-fi writer of your choice.

The winning results were pretty entertaining. I only remember the Heinlein entry having something like "Why, he's using plasteel for his helmet liner instead of ferrocrete!"

Re:"Four Seconds to Hot Up the Disintegrator, Google Had Tol... by tetris11 on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @05:56PM (#41573281)
I would love to see a Gene Wolf rendition of that