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Craters
According to Amazon, this book is going to be released on July 8, but I have a copy now, so I thought I’d share it. My story, “Craters,” which first appeared in Future Weapons of War has been included in the volume. I read this book every year as well, so it’s nice to be included. Tweet This Post … Read entire article »
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Editorial June 1996
The Dated Essay of the Month comes from the June, 1996 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, which I used to edit. As I tried to pick which dated essay I was going to choose this month, I looked at all of my June editorials. Some are REALLY dated and should remain in the issue in which they were published. But this one caught my fancy. I had forgotten that we did a new writers issue of F&SF. I kind of remember now, but mostly because the editorial itself refreshed my brain. After I finished reading the essay, I looked at the June, 1996 issue, hoping to see that all of the new writers contained within had become familiar names. They hadn’t. A … Read entire article »
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The Power of Human Reason
Apparently it’s short story week. Another short story just appeared in Future Americas edited by John Helfers and Martin H. Greenberg. It’s a futuristic cop story called “The Power of Human Reason,” and it was a lot of fun to write. Tweet This Post … Read entire article »
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Substitutions
One of my favorite publications, the year’s best mystery & crime, edited by Ed Gorman and Marty Greenberg, has just come out, and this time, I’m lucky enough to have a story in it. “Substitutions” is a fantasy story with mystery elements, or a mystery story with fantasy elements. In any case, the main character works for Death. This series occasionally uses sf/f/h stories with crime or mystery elements, which is one of the reasons I love it. I’ll be reading this edition soon. Tweet This Post … Read entire article »
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May Recommended Reading
I’m late posting this because it’s already been a busy month. And the list is short, since I taught a workshop. Reading a lot of student manuscripts cuts into my reading time. (Mostly proposals and queries this time. By the end of the workshop, they were very, very good–but I can’t recommend them, since most folks will never see them.) I also read a lot of books that passed the time, but just didn’t excite me. So here’s what I did enjoy in May: Barth, John, “Toga Party,” Best American Short Stories, edited by Stephen King, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008. Talk about judging a writer by his reputation. I’d always heard that Barth was lit’rary—which to me often means snobby and unappealing. His books look dry … Read entire article »
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Algis Budrys
The news came across the lists this morning: Algis Budrys died. On the one hand, his death was not a surprise. AJ had been sick for a long time. On the other hand, it’s quite a shock. It seems like I’ve known AJ all my life. When I met him, he wasn’t well, but he wasn’t horribly ill either. It just seemed that AJ would be around forever. I met AJ in June of 1985, when I attended Clarion Writers Workshop in East Lansing, Michigan. In those days, I wasn’t a genre reader. Or at least, I didn’t know I was a genre reader. I read every book in my path. I also subscribed to fiction magazines, including F&SF. I had … Read entire article »
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Asimov’s Readers Choice Award Photo
I wasn’t able to attend the ceremony where the awards were given out, so my certificate arrived this past week. So here I am (among the flowers) with the framed certificate. Just pretend I was accepting the award there. Tweet This Post … Read entire article »
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