I got home from WisCon last night to a wonderful review of Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, edited by Mike Allen. Allen finds his groove for this second annual anthology of weird stories, selecting 16 wonderfully evocative, well-written tales. Marie Brennan’s thought-provoking “Once a Goddess” considers the fate of a goddess […]
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01:06 You know… just once, I would like to go to a con without pulling an all-nighter at the theater. See you at Wiscon tomorrow? # 04:31 I’m waiting for the bus to the airport. Have I been to bed? Does a 20 minute nap count? # 04:38 Today’s shopping list consists of ginger ale,
Sure, I have to research props for stage, but I also have to research them for fiction too. For instance my upcoming story in Talebones, is set in England in the 1920s. I needed to find out if cigarette lighters existed by then. Yes, but hand held ones were still a couple of years away.
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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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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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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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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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Campbell nominee Aliette de Bodard has a fascinating extended blog post on what it’s like to write in a foreign language I could go on for a bit about the reasons I write in English (the main one being that SF and fantasy remain very much anglo-centred), but that’s not really the point of this
At Wiscon last year, Lynne M. Thomas approached me and asked if I’d be interested in having my work added to the Northern Illinois University SF Archives. In particular, she was interested in drafts and other things exposing the creative process. I was deep, deep in the throes of Impostor Syndrome and couldn’t figure out
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According to Jay Garmon, of Tech Republic, I’m one of “50 top-shelf geeks to be found on Twitter.” This amuses me. via 50 ubergeeks worth following on Twitter.
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We’re having a conversation on puptcrit (Puppet Critique), which is a listserver for puppeteers, about scripting for puppet theater. One of the major problems with writing for puppet theater is that it is a very specific and different skill set from writing for live actors. I don’t write the scripts for our shows, because that’s
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Of the awards given at WorldCon this year, the one I’m watching with the most interest (aside from short stories) is the Campbell. Since, by lucky chance, I’ve met all but one of this year’s crop of Campbell nominees, I decided to introduce them to you via a series of interviews. I’ll post one each
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I’m heading for Lunacon . Will I see some of you there? Friday How to Avoid Publishing Scams 6:00 PM (Brundage B) Warning signs, what to ask, and what to look out for. Participants: Sean P. Fodera[M], Mary Robinette Kowal, Joshua Palmatier, Ian Randal Strock, The Worst Advice I Ever Got? 7:00 PM (Brundage B)
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This week’s AMC column looks at the difference between stage magic and real magic. I spent a season working as a stage magician’s assistant. I wasn’t doing much magic, mind you, but it was enough to make me absolutely fascinated. One of the things he taught me was that If you know how it’s done,
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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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