As noted earlier, John C. Bodin and I are excited to announce that we’ll be releasing “Three Days in May,” an anthology of science fiction related to the Indianapolis 500. We expect to see it drop on or about May 11th, which just so happens to be the day the Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens for […]
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Splitting Stories and a Note From Philip K. Dick
I’ve spent the last couple mornings working to restructure episodes 6 and 7 into a short story and a short novella (perhaps even dropping it into novelette territory–though we will see). It was a bit difficult to concentrate to concentrate this morning, though. First, I woke up considerably later this morning than normal (the cat […]
Read More ...Stories of the Month: Resolution Check-in #2
Here’s step two in my check-up on my New Year’s Resolutions. To (once again) remind, I made three resolutions. They were: Average over 20K steps a day Write fiction every day Read a short story every day I’m going to talk about the short fiction I’ve read this month (yeah, the month’s not over, but […]
Read More ...WotF Writers on the Prediction Trail
It’s been said that Skiffy writers don’t predict the future, but instead they propose and explore options. Here’s an article that begs to differ. Lots of fun bits here.
Read More ...Serious as a Heart Attack
Now that the danger appears to be over and all seems okay, I think I need to apologize to Neil Clarke (@clarkesworld), as the data is clear it was a submission of my latest work that caused him to have his little incident at Readercon. I mean, how much more obvious can you get? I […]
Read More ...Fiction at Subterranean
I’ve just ready two really interesting pieces of fiction that say a lot about relationships, in very different ways: Younger Women by Karen Joy Fowler. Mirror, Mirror by Tobias S. Buckell. Speculative fiction–gotta love it.
Read More ...Escape Pod Recommendations
So I’ve been on an Escape Pod jag while doing my health-club time lately. Two stories I can recommend: You’re Almost Here by Melinda Thielbar (originally published in Bull Spec), and Written on the Wind by David D.Levine. You can either download the podcast on those links or read the story in written form. Very […]
Read More ...Two Pieces from Strange Horizons
I see why Jed Hartman calls Joan Aiken’s The Third Wish his favorite three-wishes story ever. And I admit I’m not often into poetry, but I found this one by David C. Kopaska-Merkel to be kinda fun.
Read More ...Britney Spears does SF?
Since it’s in the title, I should probably lead with it … so here it is: Britney Spears does SF? # Since I’m in the media frame of mind, I’m currently reading a pair of books–Stephen King’s Full Dark, No Stars, and a “Best of” collection of Edmund Hamilton’s work. King’s work is great, of […]
Read More ...A Night at the Opera
I can’t wait until this gets to little ol’ Columbus, IN. I absolutely love the comment, too.
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