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Departments => Books => Topic started by: guessingo on February 08, 2010, 06:01:25 PM
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I have read on the forums that many of you became friends at BYU at their sci-fi/fantasy magazine. How did this work? Is this short stories by students? Is it available online?
Have any of these short stories been sold? Have any of the authors other than Brandon Sanderson been published?
I am surprised that there is a Sci-Fi/Fantasy magazine at a religious school. Is it supported by the school? I went to a catholic college. I doubt the priests would have cared if we had one, but they wouldn't have supported it. They probably would have thought it was silly.
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Leading Edge is BYU's Sci-Fi/Fantasy magazine. It accepts admissions from anyone and pays for the stories it accepts. Sometimes these are student submissions, but more often than not, the submissions come from the world at large. The support from faculty for the magazine has been variable over the years. Over the past few years, it stopped getting the support from the English faculty it needed and moved over to another department. This was mainly because the professors who had been more supportive died or retired. The remaining professors didn't think it was "literary" enough, or something of that sort. I don't know the exact details.
There are a lot of LDS Sci-Fi/Fantasy authors, and many of them went to BYU. Brandon even teaches a Sci-Fi/Fantasy creative writing class there. When I was at BYU, Dave Wolverton taught that class, and there was a Sci-Fi/Fantasy literature class offered too. I think support for that sort of thing has depended more on the professors who are there and students willing to put in the time and effort to make it happen.
You can read more about it at: http://www.leadingedgemagazine.com/
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I hope they record Brandon's classes and put them online. Berkeley, MIT, and the University of Washington have a number of recorded classes online.
Does brandon post his syllabus online?
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Brandon doesn't really have a syllabus (the lectures are labeled "I talk, you listen"). And we asked about webcasting the classes, but BYU said no.
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There's a Sci-Fi/Fantasy event at BYU this Weekend, and Brandon's coming. They've got his name up on a poster and everything. Apparently the rest of the Writing Excuses cast is coming too. He'll probably blog about it soon(if he hasn't already.)