Antiticaption, the 2009 Hugos held in Montreal, has opened the doors for Hugo nominations today, so I thought I’d mention which of my stories came out in 2008. [bfentry id=15 full] (“Evil Robot Monkey” will be appearing in both Rich Horton’s Science Fiction Best of the Year and Gardner Dozois’s The Year’s Best Science-Fiction) [bfentry […]
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I failed to link to two of my twitfics up at Thaumatrope. There’s not any real way to do a teaser of fiction that’s only 140 characters long. So… This story from Christmas Eve is not safe for family. And the story from Christmas day is.
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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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I’m delighted to announce that my short story “At the Edge of Dying” will appear in the anthology Clockwork Phoenix 2, edited by Mike Allen. The first anthology was full of amazing stories and I’m thrilled to be in the second incarnation. Here’s a teaser: Kahe peeked over the edge of the earthen trench as
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Thaumatrope is a new twitterzine that delivers 140 character stories. You think that’s impossible? Check out horror story and see what you think. The first issue also has an interview with Scalzi and fiction by Kenneth Newquist. Oh, I’m particularly proud to be in the first issue because of this bit from the About page:
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I participated in this week’s Mind Meld at SF Signal on The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2008 Q: What were the best genre-related books, movies and/or shows you consumed in 2008? [We also added this note: They don’t have to have been released in 2008. Feel free to choose just some of the genres
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While I’m at it, here are some place name generators. Largely I use the Ever-changing Book of Names, if I can’t come up with something on my own, but this is a handy set of online resources. Nine French Boys has a lot of generators that are pretty decent. Scroll down the page for their
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There are times when I’m writing and I’ll give a character a name that feels good, then realize that I’ve got two other characters whose name sounds just like that or looks too similar on the page. Like I had a story with Josie and Jodie. Not okay. It’s confusing for the reader. So when
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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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One of the sites I enjoy reading because they talk about theory in intelligent ways is SF Novelists. Today’s post, by Marie Brennan, is about the concept of practicing as a writer. To me, writing feels kind of the same way. Sure, I can always revise; if I realize that thing my characters did last
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In the interview that I did with Alethea Kontis for Subterranean Press, she asks me about the funny story that goes with “Waiting for Rain.” The short form of my answer is that I initially sent the wrong file. After we had a good laugh (thank God) he suggested that when he ran the story
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I think Stealth Halloween went over pretty well. Of the costumes that I know about there were: a cylon, a werewolf (but it wasn’t a full moon), Monk (from the show), the mall goers from Night of the Living Dead (before the zombies attack), a muggle, a clone, Sarah Palin and John McCain. I believe
While I’m travelling… Steampunk. A subcategory of science-fiction or fantasy? Discuss.
Personally, I think the outcome of this has the promise to be pretty darn exciting. A message from Roy Blount Jr.: A couple months after I became Authors Guild president in 2006, we met with Google to propose a settlement to our class-action lawsuit. The Guild had sued Google in September 2005, after Google struck
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I’ve been reading Juliette Wade’s blog for some time now. She’s a linguist and anthropologist who also writes SF. Her insights in to culture are well-written and uniformly insightful. I look forward to her posts. Today’s post is called, .Don’t make them all the same and deals with different approaches to creating multi-cultural fantasy characters.
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