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Michael Helsem
Sep 6, 2006, 11:28:48 PM9/6/06
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Scifabulenga: A Scifabulenga is a linked poem expressing science
fictional and fabulistic elements, each separate link being a one-line
scifaiku (here termed scifabulaiku). The themes and subject matter
being all those elements common to the literature of science fantasy,
from alternate history to alternate worlds to future visions to
sociological satire, encompassing the general impingement of the
fantastic into the logical universe. A scifabulenga is composed of 13
one-line links, with two paragraph breaks, forming two quintets
divided by a central tercet. It can be composed solo or with two
writing partners. The Scifabulenga was created by John W. Sexton in
March 2006.
fictional and fabulistic elements, each separate link being a one-line
scifaiku (here termed scifabulaiku). The themes and subject matter
being all those elements common to the literature of science fantasy,
from alternate history to alternate worlds to future visions to
sociological satire, encompassing the general impingement of the
fantastic into the logical universe. A scifabulenga is composed of 13
one-line links, with two paragraph breaks, forming two quintets
divided by a central tercet. It can be composed solo or with two
writing partners. The Scifabulenga was created by John W. Sexton in
March 2006.
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