Crap crap crap crap. J.G. Ballard is dead. What a great writer. I especially loved the short stories, especially the ones that totally rewired your brain, made you see space and time differently. Crap. UPDATE: My Omnivoracious appreciation.
Everything has a form and a function, and everything has a story of some kind. A knife is no different. It tells a story in the precision of its crafting, or the imprecision. The choice of materials, each of which came from somewhere specific, hints at setting and context: “Black lip pearl overlay,” “Madagascar Rosewood.” […]
Just got back from Vinyl Fever, where they were having special in-store performances and sales. I just got my advance for the nonfiction collection, and am a big believer in celebrating each book by indulging in something cool, for myself or someone who helped with the project. In this case, I was really selfish and […]
A little rough this morning, but happy to be sitting down with this and to have gotten that. Yeah! Leena Krohn makes me smile. Gawd, I gotta get Bookfinch off my desk so I can get back into some fiction writing…meanwhile, this site, pointed out to me by Matt Staggs, makes me laugh really hard. […]
As I’ve mentioned here before, my story “Fixing Hanover” from Extraordinary Engines, edited by Nick Gevers, was picked up by three year’s bests: Rich Horton’s Science Fiction: Best of the Year (now being bundled with the fantasy volume), Jonathan Strahan’s The Year’s Best Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Infinivox’s The Year’s Top 10 Stories of […]
Cult Pop has just put up the video of their interview with me and Ann. Click on episode #28. Recorded very early this year, I think. The alien baby, a Romanian spaceship, and other props make an appearance. Strangely, or perhaps not so strangely, the interviewer never asked us what that crazy stuff was, even […]
(Me, nattering on…) Shared Worlds 2 has been finalized, and you can find the information about the camp below. I’ll be there for two weeks and Ann for one week. The plan is for Tobias Buckell to helm a creative writing track in week two, but the final distribution of tasks/teaching responsibilities depends at least […]
I’m so stupid I either didn’t realize or had temp-forgotten one of my friends in NYC has a blog, and right now it’s featuring something called Germ of a New Insanity.
Um, this just pulled up across the street. Maybe they’re here for Irmalinda Pitkaginkel, the crazy shut-in or maybe they know something I don’t and they’re here for me. In any event, probably a good idea to hurry up and post this pretty random post…
I’m thrilled that “The Situation” is a finalist for a Shirley Jackson Award. You can read the novelette on GeekDad/Wired and you can still buy the PS Publishing book of it in the 500-copy version, I believe. Congrats to Ann for Fast Ships, Black Sails being up in the anthology category–she did most of the […]