Wiki-robot-monkey
Whoa. Someone made a wikipedia page for Evil Robot Monkey. I’m baffled.
Evil Robot Monkey
BestScienceFictionStories.com
One of the interesting side effects of having a story nominated for a Hugo is that everyone and their cousin posts reviews of them. So, I haven’t been linking to them because it would just get silly. One popped up on my feedreader today from Best Science Fiction Stories. I haven’t run across this site
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Escape Pod » EP196: Evil Robot Monkey
My short story “Evil Robot Monkey,” read by Stephen Eley, appears on Escape Pod today as part of their yearly podcast of Hugo nominees. It first appeared in the Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, vol. 2 edited by George Mann. Sliding his hands over the clay, Sly relished the moisture oozing around his fingers.
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Adventures in Reading: Hugo Award Nominee: “Evil Robot Monkey”
It always makes me happy when Joe Sherry over at Adventures in Reading reviews one of my stories. He manages to cover the whole thing without any spoilers, which is pretty amazing for a 970 word story. “Evil Robot Monkey” is a heartbreaking and surprising story. The title might suggest a little robot monkey being
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Giant Block of Foam vs. Evil Robot Monkey
There’s nothing to make one quite so humble as realizing that photos of one’s husband with a Giant Block of Foam are more popular than links to one’s Hugo-nominated story. That first surge is Evil Robot Monkey. The second is the Giant Block of Foam.
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Evil Robot Monkey
I have three version of Evil Robot Monkey to offer for your consideration as one of the Hugo nominees for Short Story. It was originally published in the Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, vol. 2 edited by George Mann. You may download a pdf of “Evil Robot Monkey“, illustrated by me. I do layout
“Evil Robot Monkey” has been nominated for a Hugo!
Here’s another post that you’re reading days and days after I write it. Short form: My story, “Evil Robot Monkey” has been nominated for a Hugo! !!!! Longform: Jodi and I had a show last Thursday night and went out afterwards with his sweetie, Sam, to hang and celebrate that it went pretty darn well.
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Review: Evil Robot Monkey, audio
Charlie Jane Anders has given my audio recording of Evil Robot Monkey a gloooooowing review at io9. It’s a great examination of art and the creative process, and what it feels like to be an artist who’s looked at merely as a curiosity or as a momentary amusement for child barbarians. And art as a
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The Guardian’s take on exciting new SF and fantasy writers
Jay Lake sent me this link to the Guardian today, so you know, I clicked through out of curiosity. The headline was “The next generation of SF Writers” and then there’s a photo of a spiral arm galaxy, the caption of which is, “In a galaxy far, far away … Hill, Kowal or Scholes?” Um.Â
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Locus Online: 2008 Recommended Reading List
Hey! Evil Robot Monkey made Locus’s 2008 Recommended Reading List. That’s pretty nifty.
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More Borderlands Audio
Actually, it turns out that John Nichols posted all of the stories we read in neatly discrete chunks. Very exciting! My stories: Nails in my Feet Trip, Trap, Tripping http://ljsummit.com/wordpress/evil-robot-monkey-by-mary-robinette-kowal Things we read together: Denise Jones, Super Booker by John Scalzi The State of Super Villiany by John Scalzi Scalzi, solo: Missives from Possible Futures
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Sale! “Evil Robot Monkey” to Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best!
I’m stunned. “Evil Robot Monkey” will be appearing in Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best Science Fiction. You know, there were anthologies that I regularly bought before I started writing seriously. This is one of them, because the selections were always thought-provoking and that’s what I loved about SF. And to have one of my stories in
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Sale! “Evil Robot Monkey” to Rich Horton’s Science Fiction: The Best of the Year
I’m delighted that “Evil Robot Monkey” will be appearing in Mr. Horton’s anthology, Science Fiction: The Best of the Year 2009. This is the second of my stories that he’s taken and I’m thrilled that he continues to enjoy what I do. Here’s a snippet of Evil Robot Monkey, as a teaser. Sliding his hands
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Audio: Evil Robot Monkey
Evil Robot Monkey first appeared in the Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, volume 2. To test a new microphone, ((A Blue Snowball mic, which I think I might love)) I decided to record this because it is darn short. Here you go. Six minutes of science-fiction. [audio:https://maryrobinettekowal.com/audio/evilrobotmonkey.mp3] Sliding his hands over the clay, Sly
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The Fix reviews The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume 2
The Fix gave a lovely favorable review to The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume 2, edited by George Mann. It included this bit: Mary Robinette Kowal’s “Evil Robot Monkey,†the shortest piece in this anthology, is a smart tale about monkeys with implants and a cautionary tale of how intelligence can sometimes be
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