SF stories

(App, Yugoslavia)

Between, roughly, 1982 and 2004 I was writing SF stories. As one priest (yup, met even one of those once, dad's once coworker - to run a peasant's cooperative in 1957 you took anyone literate enough, even a priest) said - "if you want to read something of value, well, sit down and write". So I knew how to write, to an extent, and had weird ideas at the time, so...

Only the first one was written on paper. Somewhere between #6 and #9, and bits of #16, I printed and took the prints with me to leave the house machine (including early incarnations of zmajček) to the girls and get a different sort of inspiration, when faced with ink (or baked-in soot) on paper.

Most of it was written at a keyboard, and some later pieces in various variants or precedents of zod.

Here's the postscript to #6, "Ghost in the machine":

most thankful to Sting for the title, to the grand masters for the City, and to my dear for constructive mockery. I hope this has enlarged the global collection of general items.

written in mid-eighties in INES editor on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum; retyped into Atari's 1ST Word in february 1991, transferred into Ventura Professional using a program written in FoxPro 1.02 on 30th of March 1991. Uploaded to Sezam 1992, and downloaded back when the original vanished with a crashed disk. Sent to Oreska BBS and from there to Boban Knežević's contest before any copy went to print. According to Oreska's sysop (username broker), won the 2nd prize (confirmed later by Knežević). By the end of '94 transferred to Word 2.0 somewhere in Hungary. Eventually, on 25th of January 97 transferred to .html format using a couple of macros done in Word 7.0, and finished up in Word 97

The first English version done in Netscape Composer 4.03, finished 4th of February 98. Translated by the author himself, don't judge the language too hard. The layout of this version was redesigned in FrontPage 2000, and the translation was (hopefully) slightly improved. Almost done January 17th 2000, but then in November discovered that FrontPage messed things up, and restyled it almost manually, keeping the HTML pure and systematically deleting any of the unwanted stylesheet and other stuff.

Classifying this among apps, as they were, ahem, written by a programmer.

For those extremely interested, here goes


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