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C. Lee McKenzie

Young Adult and Middle Grade Author

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Featured Author, David Powers and Forerunner

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You must know by now that Jan. 18 is the next #IWSG, but in case you’ve been testing out cave dwellings this winter, here’s a reminder. Need more information? HERE it is!

 

This month I’m featuring FULL DARK a collection of tales that has something for everybody. And sci-fi is well-represented. Today please welcome David P. King, one of the Full Dark authors. Take it away, David!

Full Dark

What happens in the dark will come to light.

After a complete roller coaster of a year in 2017, it was a total surprise when Melissa Maygrove invited me to contribute to the Full Dark anthology. Her request for Twilight Zone-ish stories prompted something I’d written over a decade ago, inspired by a supernatural encyclopedia entry that touched on forerunners–essentially a doppelganger that manifests in the future of the individual’s actions. For example, being present and mingling with people at a party or doing something terrible, before the actual person arrives at the party or has the chance to do that terrible deed. My entry Forerunner provides a few actual examples of this phenomenon, including one which was supposedly experienced by Mark Twain.

 But whatever you do, don’t run into your own forerunner–nothing good will come of it!
David King, Published Author

David King, Published Author

*David was born in beautiful downtown Burbank, California where his love for film inspired him to be a writer. An avid fan of science fiction and fantasy, David also has a soft spot for zombies and the paranormal. David’s works include Woven, The Undead Road, and Full Dark: An Anthology. He now lives in the mountain West with his wife and four children.

Forerunner was one of my favorite stories in this anthology. My REVIEW.

 

 

 

 

Okay, Sci-fi writers/readers are you up for a wee quiz this week?

Frankenstein

Morguefiles/quicksandala

True/False about sci-fi and time

1 Mary Shelley’s 1818 publication, Frankenstein, is soon to have a 200th birthday. Is it true or false that her story, The Last Man, vies with Frankenstein for first place as the first true science fiction novel?

2 Scientists have given up trying to prove that Einstein was right when he proposed that the higher you live above sea level the faster time passes.

 

Answers to last week’s T/F Quiz on India

Salman Rushdie’s novel, Midnight’s Children, describes English as the native tongue of children born in the 1950s.

  • TRUE. His allegorical novel takes place at the time India became independent from Great Britain. One of the British empire’s legacies is its language.

2.While the surname, Souza, is Portugese, it’s a common name in parts of India.

  • TRUE. Portugese Goa was annexed by the Republic of India. Good or bad? Depends on your point of view.

Quote of the Week: “Science fiction predicts the future with startling accuracy. Perhaps we should set up hotlines where you can call a sci-fi writer for $3.99 a minute.” John Doppler

Comments

  2. Hey Lee,

    Yep, your wait for my eagerly anticipated comment is finally over. It’s awesome to see David being featured on your awesome, must read, when I can find it, site 😀

    After David’s roller coaster of year in 2017, I hope that 2018 is a little less up and down.

    The higher you live above sea level does make time travel faster. The folks of Denver are about to celebrate 2019.

    Penny the Jack Russell dog and modest internet superstar attended the “I Was Seeking Gary” Twitter Bitch, um, Twitter Pitch Party.

    Cheers and take care.

    Of course, before I finally get the heck out of here, I’m still your starstruckest fan, superstar author, Lee.

    Penny’s human dad,

    Gary 😀

    • Yay! I’ve been waiting for your comment and here it is! Thanks for making my day and for keeping me up to date about Denver. I’m considering moving to Death Valley. It’s the lowest spot on our continent…I think.

    • I love to learn new things, so this is one way I can treat myself. Glad you enjoy the mini-quizzes.

  6. Hi Lee – yes true and false to the two questions. Now David’s story does sound enticing … particularly as I need to know the forerunner thingie … my doppelganger must be having a right runaround … cheers Hilary

  7. Trying (but not very hard) to wrap my brain round this ‘forerunner’ business. Is it an external force or an extension of the self? I’m at a friend’s house, just about to tell them that I’m going to write a book about a clairvoyant and this spirit manifests itself next to me and suggests it would be a very bad idea. I tell my friend about it and he said, “I knew you were going to say that.”

    • What your friend would probably say is, “You already said that.” Your doppelganger would have preceded you. It’s a paranormal phenomenon, ghostly I guess you’d say. Just don’t gave one of them and you’ll be safe.

  10. I don’t understand this forerunner thing. I guess I must be tired; the brain just can’t figure out what that is.

    As for the questions, time does pass faster for those higher above sea level. It’s a very miniscule difference, however. (The more intense the gravity, the slower time passes. General relativity.)

    • It’s the old Doppelganger thing. Two of something, usually ghostly or paranormal stuff. In this story, the twin character preceded the other and then…well. you have to read it to find out.

    • It was a great story. I was fascinated by the prospect of preceding myself in time. What a mess that could be.

    • I’m sure you’ll have a chance to get something for next time. Look forward to seeing you there.

  16. Huge congratulations to David.
    I think a forerunner would save her energy where I am concerned. I can mess up my life perfectly well without help. Indeed perhaps she can hang around and learn from me.

  18. I have a lot of doppelgangers in the area (which surprises me there are so many long-haired redheads about) but not have infringed on my timeline.

    I’ve always heard that Frankenstein was first, so false there, and I bet they are still trying to prove that theory, so true for the second one.

  19. Well poo! I don’t know about either question. I would hope that scientists have tried to stop proving the sea level-time thing, but once they get something in their heads…