Comments on: Wide-Spread Drug Abuse Reported in Fiction Community

By: Marry

Marry — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:00:02 +0000

Hey this is a very interesting article! Thanks!

By: Kathryn Cramer

Kathryn Cramer — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:51:29 +0000

In about 1983 when I was a student of Joanna Russ’s, she told the class about the results of a context for the best story written under the influence of drugs. The winning story, so she said, was written under the influence of — gasp — asprin.

By: Steve Buchheit

Steve Buchheit — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:06:38 +0000

I illicitly sniff babies foreheads. ::sobbing, imploring the Gods of the Nebulas:: I have sinned against you!

You know, this coming from someone has running conversations with his Evil Monkey is especially funny. Just saying. :)

By: ChrisBillett.net - (these are the lies) » Sci-fi drugs expose

ChrisBillett.net - (these are the lies) » Sci-fi drugs expose — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:33:04 +0000

[...] Vandermeer has posted a mind-numbingly blunt expose on drugs in the speculative fiction genre here, at his website, which had me snorting coffee out my nose, quite aside from whatever else I might have been [...]

By: Chris Billett

Chris Billett — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:27:02 +0000

No Hal, I think you hit it right on the head. You really seem to get the good shit, though. Who’s your dealer?

By: Hal Duncan

Hal Duncan — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:30:16 +0000

I only use writing because it improves my drug use. Without the writing I wouldn’t be nearly as creative in my chemical abuse. Sure, I know some people say that writing just messes you up, that you can straighten up and still be just as good a druggie, *better* even, but I honestly think that the writing increases my narcotics skills no end, that I wouldn’t be half as good without it. And I’m in complete control, you know. I can stop it anytime. Honest I can. It’s not an addiction, really it’s not.

Wait. Am I missing the point here?

By: Elf M. Sternberg

Elf M. Sternberg — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:52:33 +0000

I like alcohol, but really, only as a way of collecting field data. And most of my drug use is pretty well documented anyway.

By: Paul Jessup

Paul Jessup — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:49:40 +0000

“what else is everyone snorting these days”

I’m snorting the ground up bones of saints. I find I can’t start the day without a blow of saints in me nose.

By: Chris Billett

Chris Billett — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:25:27 +0000

I have a confession, and I think it’s best to start at the beginning. And by the beginning, I mean somewhere around the middle, towards the end, and then we can go back (a bit like the film Maverick?).

This fall, in Saratoga Springs, I was making my way towards BarCon at WFC when Jay Lake stepped out from behind a wavey curtain and, with the shortest of glances to check who was in earshot, muttered this: “we’re having cheese.” I, of course, had heard of these covert cheese meetings, and stepped through the door into a plain, empty room with scattered coats and a long table at the end. I was amazed to find Deanna Hoak and Kat Feete (amongst others) already there, and off their faces on cheese. Someone had even brought homemade products.

Bits of my life since I fell in with the science fiction crowd are vague at best. A week in March 2007 is just a haze (now we’re nearer the beginning), with flickering memories of whisky, wine, whisky again and then three more bottles of wine, and fading into stupour at three in the morning with Al Robertson, Heather Lindsley and Hal Duncan in a bar underneath Charing Cross Road in London, mutteringly somewhat incoherently about the best works of Ray Bradbury. WFC ‘06 is just a blur…

Clearly, I need help. Thank you for bursting the dam on this scandal, Jeff, and if you can hear this then help me, Evil Monkey, you’re my only hope. For President.

By: brendan connell

brendan connell — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:15:33 +0000

Actually, I find the combination of absinthe and high quality green tea to be quite effective.