David Barr Kirtley

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Acid-Rave Sci-Fi Punk-Funk Lit

September 9, 2008 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

I just finished a new story, “P-NZ4.” This is the story that came out of my musings about acid-rave sci-fi punk-funk lit. My story has no rave, and virtually no funk, but it’s certainly sci-fi, and sorta punk-ish, and there’s definitely acid, so I call that a pretty good first attempt. I’m actually supposed to be working on a screenplay right now, and I had instituted an ironclad rule against writing any fiction until my screenplay was done, but I just couldn’t stop thinking about “P-NZ4,” and I had finally figured out exactly how the first scene should go, and I’d come up with enough good lines that I was afraid I was going to start forgetting them if I didn’t just go ahead and write it, so I sat down to type up just the first scene, and before I knew it I had 7,000 words of comic gold. It’s Star Wars meets Don Quixote meets Huckleberry Finn. On acid. Lots of acid. Watch for it probably not anytime soon in a magazine or anthology near you.

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David Barr Kirtley

David Barr Kirtley is the host of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, for which he’s interviewed over four hundred guests, including George R. R. Martin, Richard Dawkins, Paul Krugman, Simon Pegg, Margaret Atwood, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ursula K. Le Guin. His short fiction appears in the book Save Me Plz and Other Stories.
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