This is the last interview of the 2009 nominees for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. I encourage you to find fiction by all of these authors and read them. Felix Gilman was born in London in 1974. He holds two degrees in history from Oxford, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, […]
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I’m sorry you’re getting a lot of twitter summaries this week. I’m slammed trying to get two shows up before I leave town for the Nebulas on Thursday. And yet, I dropped everything to take Maggie to the vet today. 12:49 Worried about Maggie. Rob and I realized that neither of us saw her eat
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Well look! My story “Scenting the Dark” from Apex Digest made the long list for StorySouth’s Million Writers Award Notable Stories 2008. The purpose of the storySouth Million Writers Award is to honor and promote the best fiction published in online literary journals and magazines during 2008. I’m very pleased to be on the list.
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For those that have been wondering about my passing references to 1000 toothbrushes, this is what I’ve been making with them. It’s for a dance piece the Chase Brock Experience is performing. That photo has about 600 toothbrushes in it. The final version has about 800. They are glued and wired together in mass. Moving
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Knowing my interesting in movement, my mother-in-law just sent me this video of 21 dancers, all deaf. I watched this the first time accidentally without sound. I had the speakers turned off but just thought it was silent on purpose. No, there’s music, but watching it without is a heck of a lot more compelling
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00:19 Removing the wrappers from 1000 toothbrushes is exactly as fun as it sounds. I’d invite you over to help if I could. # 18:47 Okay, seriously. The crows can dry any time now. On such a nice day, they have no excuse for being damp. # 22:49 We are trying to figure out when
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I clicked over to Handspring Puppet Company because I wanted to see more about Warhorse. What do you know? There’s a link to a 40 minute presentation about how the horses were developed, including a solid 10 minute demo of Joey the horse. You watch the puppeteers get into the figure and then they just
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09:41 I just finished interviewing physicist Michio Kaku about his book “Physics of the Impossible.” I highly recommend this book for SF writers. # 20:09 Heading up to drop off blood, dried milk and counterfeit money. Plus 3 copies of a love letter. # 21:33 I’m bending silverware. # 21:36 And in some cases, I’m
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Ever have one of those weeks where you just wanted to see carnage and bloodshed? I thought so. It turns out that epic fantasy has the perfect solution. Swing by and let me know what your favorite epic battles are..
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Now THIS is how to do overt puppetry. It’s from Warhorse, playing in London’s West End and the puppetry is by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company. via PuppetVision Blog: The Amazing Puppetry of Warhorse.
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I’m thrilled because my short story “The Shocking Affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland” will appear in John Joseph Adams’s anthology, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I’ve been wanting to make a sale to him for a while now because I’ve really liked the anthologies he’s put together. It’s a reprint anthology and this
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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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Canadian writer Tony Pi holds a doctorate in linguistics and works in administration at the Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto. His short stories have appeared or will appear in diverse venues such as Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Ages of Wonder (DAW), The Best of Abyss & Apex, Volume 1 (Hadley Rille), and
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I have been impressed with Jane Espenson’s work as a writer for a long time. She’s just truly won my heart in this interview. Q: People have said BSG didn’t need to be science fiction to get the story across. If that’s true, would it be even more true for Caprica? A: Any story worth
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