What Beach?

So why Tallahassee Beach? Way back in the pre-Interwebz 1990s, I wrote a half-dozen episodes of a satirical and pretty goofy SF series that was published in a long-defunct local arts periodical, Q Magazine. The series was set in Florida’s capital in the 23rd Century, when the rising Gulf of Mexico has brought its surf to the outskirts of town. I titled it Quincentennial, a play on the magazine's title and in reference to what would be the city's anniversary when the series was set (2324CE, to be precise).

When the Web came along, its potential for self-publishing/promotion was obvious. Given all the surfing metaphors in use at the time, Tallahassee Beach struck me as a good whimsical choice for the name of my personal website (archive is from 1996). And so it has remained--and the notion of sea-level change continues to play a role in my weird fiction.

The name eventually even washed up on the virtual shores of the metaverse, in that OpenSim project I describe elsewhere. 

Just don't try to find Tallahassee Beach on your maps. No hay playa, Playa.