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To the stars
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The radiance from that new-born star
Will take many thousands of years
To travel a path that comes so far
To finally reach our eyes.
Perhaps it died while on its way
Through infinite blue space,
Yet only now does its light stray
To shine upon your face.
Slowly climbing the dark skies
Is the dead star's icon:
Invisible when it did exist,
Today, we see an illusion.
And so it is when passion's fled
Lost in the depths of night,
The light of our love, now dead,
Still haunts us in its flight
Mihai Eminescu
Will take many thousands of years
To travel a path that comes so far
To finally reach our eyes.
Perhaps it died while on its way
Through infinite blue space,
Yet only now does its light stray
To shine upon your face.
Slowly climbing the dark skies
Is the dead star's icon:
Invisible when it did exist,
Today, we see an illusion.
And so it is when passion's fled
Lost in the depths of night,
The light of our love, now dead,
Still haunts us in its flight
Mihai Eminescu
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newnothing
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The days I met Bruce Sterling
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So, 2010 was a bizarre year - sometimes in a nice way, sometimes not. But I'm so lucky to had known people that offered me opportunities like publishing a short story, like talking about cyberpunk or science fiction in general in conventions, like photographing and modeling without being part of the sucked up mainstream, organizing a sci-fi event in my university, participating of academic meetings etc. Strange lucky things happened to me this year if compared to 2009, when everything seemed to be falling appart.
I'm just using this space to share a wonderful experience I had this weekend and yesterday, on December 6th. On Saturday, Roberto, a friend I met on my university while presenting my last research about Serial Experiments Lain, invited me to dinner with brazilian sci-fi writers and with two special guests: Bruce Sterling and his wife, Jasmina Tesanovic. Both awesome writers, except that Sterling is mean for me because he's one of the firsts to write, so one of the creators, of Cyberpunk (which he liked to say that his friends and him prefered to call their literature as "The Movement" than cyberpunk). I talked to him for almost 30 minutes and I lost myself talking about lots of things, maybe thinking I was acting kinda abusive - I claimed too much about popstar writers, those who like to showing off more than even writing and another subjects like editorial stuff. We couldn't say goodbye, but I knew we would meet again on Monday.
So I got earlier on the event where my friend's father, Roberto Causo (a very known cyberpunk writer here in Brazil), and Sterling were going to sign their books, specially the one they launched together: a double cyberpunk publication with two novels of them. I already had seen this when we were dinning in a pizzeria, on Saturday, but I needed to buy mine and get it signed. This book represents to me a step on my career as a loser cyberpunk writer - maybe my description can be changed now from loser to newbie hahah. I say this because they wrote about me and my short story published in the anthology "Imaginários 3", by Editora Draco. In the introduction, there is a quote about it like maybe a cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk short story written by the beginner me. It was wonderful to be recognized, even in the book and even by some writers were there too.
As I was the first to get in there, I talked to couple Sterling for some minutes until another fans came by. As São Paulo's traffic sucks plus the hard rain, we could imagine that people wouldn't come (also, it was Monday and people generally don't have time by the week except for working). He seemed to me quite annoyed but as the fans and writers came by, I think he noticed that maybe less people would make the experience better. Sterling told a lot of stories (maybe we couldn't understand everything because of a language trouble), but it was an awesome time spent with him (her wife was most of the time talking to Causo and his wife, a sci-fi writer called Finísia Fideli). He told about underaged hackers that wanted to drink and they had a swiss knife (he was showing us a blue one he had inside a magic pocket on his shirt) and how they got drunk. I couldn't understand much but I almost fell from my chair when he put the swiss knife back to its cover and said: "It's for you." Well, thank you!!
It was nice to see not only the two foreign writers, but brazilians like Cristina Lasaitis, Paulo Fodra, Nelson de Oliveira, Luiz Roberto Guedes, Ludmilla Hashimoto (she's a translator) and more. I just hadn't time to meet Carlos Angelo (writer and translator) because I went away to see my friend's play. Then the rockabilly boy and his otaku friend I knew there took a picture of Sterling and I (in which I got an alien a-like) and I went away with Causo and Finísia, plus my boyfriend (that was too shy to be there among the writers, so he prefered to read manga hahaha).
Well, I'm just sit here in another day of my life thinking: life sucks (as Sterling agreed)... but sometimes it has its gifts. I'm sit here and there is a book with a custom autograph made by Sterling (and Causo, that just wrote his name), based on our conversations. He says:
"Lidia, o Lidia
that encycloPEDIA!
Bruce Sterling Bruces
Showing up is 90% of everything.
kkkk!"
Maybe someday I discover why my name remembered him the word encyclopedia and maybe someday we turn into characters of his stories (at least, Cristina and John, the rockabilly boy, would like to!) I think he liked Brazil, mostly the favela of Capão Redondo.
Edit: I discovered the origin of Lidia-encyclopedia hahaha it's by Groucho Marx www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4zRe_…
I'm just using this space to share a wonderful experience I had this weekend and yesterday, on December 6th. On Saturday, Roberto, a friend I met on my university while presenting my last research about Serial Experiments Lain, invited me to dinner with brazilian sci-fi writers and with two special guests: Bruce Sterling and his wife, Jasmina Tesanovic. Both awesome writers, except that Sterling is mean for me because he's one of the firsts to write, so one of the creators, of Cyberpunk (which he liked to say that his friends and him prefered to call their literature as "The Movement" than cyberpunk). I talked to him for almost 30 minutes and I lost myself talking about lots of things, maybe thinking I was acting kinda abusive - I claimed too much about popstar writers, those who like to showing off more than even writing and another subjects like editorial stuff. We couldn't say goodbye, but I knew we would meet again on Monday.
So I got earlier on the event where my friend's father, Roberto Causo (a very known cyberpunk writer here in Brazil), and Sterling were going to sign their books, specially the one they launched together: a double cyberpunk publication with two novels of them. I already had seen this when we were dinning in a pizzeria, on Saturday, but I needed to buy mine and get it signed. This book represents to me a step on my career as a loser cyberpunk writer - maybe my description can be changed now from loser to newbie hahah. I say this because they wrote about me and my short story published in the anthology "Imaginários 3", by Editora Draco. In the introduction, there is a quote about it like maybe a cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk short story written by the beginner me. It was wonderful to be recognized, even in the book and even by some writers were there too.
As I was the first to get in there, I talked to couple Sterling for some minutes until another fans came by. As São Paulo's traffic sucks plus the hard rain, we could imagine that people wouldn't come (also, it was Monday and people generally don't have time by the week except for working). He seemed to me quite annoyed but as the fans and writers came by, I think he noticed that maybe less people would make the experience better. Sterling told a lot of stories (maybe we couldn't understand everything because of a language trouble), but it was an awesome time spent with him (her wife was most of the time talking to Causo and his wife, a sci-fi writer called Finísia Fideli). He told about underaged hackers that wanted to drink and they had a swiss knife (he was showing us a blue one he had inside a magic pocket on his shirt) and how they got drunk. I couldn't understand much but I almost fell from my chair when he put the swiss knife back to its cover and said: "It's for you." Well, thank you!!
It was nice to see not only the two foreign writers, but brazilians like Cristina Lasaitis, Paulo Fodra, Nelson de Oliveira, Luiz Roberto Guedes, Ludmilla Hashimoto (she's a translator) and more. I just hadn't time to meet Carlos Angelo (writer and translator) because I went away to see my friend's play. Then the rockabilly boy and his otaku friend I knew there took a picture of Sterling and I (in which I got an alien a-like) and I went away with Causo and Finísia, plus my boyfriend (that was too shy to be there among the writers, so he prefered to read manga hahaha).
Well, I'm just sit here in another day of my life thinking: life sucks (as Sterling agreed)... but sometimes it has its gifts. I'm sit here and there is a book with a custom autograph made by Sterling (and Causo, that just wrote his name), based on our conversations. He says:
"Lidia, o Lidia
that encycloPEDIA!
Bruce Sterling Bruces
Showing up is 90% of everything.
kkkk!"
Maybe someday I discover why my name remembered him the word encyclopedia and maybe someday we turn into characters of his stories (at least, Cristina and John, the rockabilly boy, would like to!) I think he liked Brazil, mostly the favela of Capão Redondo.
Edit: I discovered the origin of Lidia-encyclopedia hahaha it's by Groucho Marx www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4zRe_…
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Translating science fiction I write
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Hey people
I'd like to know your opinion about translating to English some short stories I write in Portuguese. I have got some already finished, another ones separated in chapters... anyways, the most important for me is people enjoying what has been written.
So, to check it out, I just posted the first part of Black Krieg short story. So, please, more than read, I'd like you to criticize, correct the grammar and let me know if the story tastes good, so I feel like translating more for you (:
Thanks!
(Btw, I'm so excited! Gonna see Placebo's concert this night!
)
I'd like to know your opinion about translating to English some short stories I write in Portuguese. I have got some already finished, another ones separated in chapters... anyways, the most important for me is people enjoying what has been written.
So, to check it out, I just posted the first part of Black Krieg short story. So, please, more than read, I'd like you to criticize, correct the grammar and let me know if the story tastes good, so I feel like translating more for you (:
Thanks!
(Btw, I'm so excited! Gonna see Placebo's concert this night!
)
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Halloweenz0r, everybody!
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Is there any celebration better than Halloween? Well, where I live we don't celebrate Halloween but Saci Day. Saci is a brazilian folk character, like an one-legged black boy that messes farms. Duh it sounds pretty stupid but there are another legends better than this. Personally, I like Iara's legend. She's like the mermaid everyone knew, but she lives in Amazonas river!
Anyways, I wish you all a great and happy halloween. Play a lot even if you're not a child anymore. Trick or treat is funny and candies are the best part. (:
Anyways, I wish you all a great and happy halloween. Play a lot even if you're not a child anymore. Trick or treat is funny and candies are the best part. (:
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