http://kriswrites.com Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:44:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I finally had the opportunity to see this movie. It's marvelous. Not a lot of action--it's a movie about intellectual pursuits. As a person who was on the debate team (yes, major geek) and who had a few teachers like the character Denzel Washington played, the movie ... http://kriswrites.com/2008/07/02/the-great-debaters/ 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 ... http://kriswrites.com/2008/06/27/craters/ 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. ... http://kriswrites.com/2008/06/25/editorial-june-1996/ 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. http://kriswrites.com/2008/06/19/the-power-of-human-reason/ 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. ... http://kriswrites.com/2008/06/16/substitutions/ 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 ... http://kriswrites.com/2008/06/15/may-recommended-reading/ http://kriswrites.com/2008/06/13/g-men/ 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. ... http://kriswrites.com/2008/06/10/algis-budrys/ 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. http://kriswrites.com/2008/06/08/asimovs-readers-choice-award-photo/ By the end of the next week or so, the entire Retrieval Artist series will be available on Audible.com. Currently, you can get The Disappeared, Extremes, The Recovery Man, and the novella that started it all, The Retrieval Artist. Jay Snyder, the reader of the novels, is doing ... http://kriswrites.com/2008/06/07/retrieval-artist-fans/