Category: SF

  • Of Nebulas and New York City

    Just a quick post before I go back to my busy-busy mode.  The Nebulas were an interesting experience, especially as I went not having entertained winning as a possibility for even a moment, and so this provided me with more of an anthropological view of the event.  The hotel was snazzy and expensive, the drinks…

  • Photos of my week that I didn’t take

    Yes, that’s an advanced reader’s copy of One for Sorrow in front of me. Me and Rick at the Nebulas.

  • Interfictions give-away

    Small Beer Press is giving away some free copies of the new Interfictions anthology, but the free copies are limited, and here’s the way you get one for free:  reply fast to his post on the Small Beer “Not a Journal” website, review the book online or in print, interview one of the authors in…

  • Advice we should take now, too

    Gwyneth Jones is so smart: Much of the science-fiction establishment hated the cyberpunks. Science fiction was supposed to be about progress, and how advances in technology will inevitably create a better world. But they were right, and the truth they told is highly relevant to this new century of sci-fi come true. If a child…

  • Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84

    I’ll miss having him around.  His books have meant a lot to me at various times in my life.  He can make me laugh at suffering more easily than any other author I’ve read. New York Times article Really excellent audio interview at Bookworm

  • Trochu

    Last week I got this really cool Czech anthology called “Trochu”.  It’s edited by Martin Sust.  Martin published a Czech translation of “The Language of Moths” in it, along with some other really really cool stories by the likes of Hal Duncan, Jeff Ford, Theodora Gossonova, Ellen Klagesova, Tim Pratt, Alan Deniro, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Paul Melko,…

  • I Will Shout Youngstown

    I have been officially interviewed at the “I Will Shout Youngstown” blog.  If you haven’t checked out that weblog before, do take a look.  Tons of really interesting entries there about Youngstown and issues related to community revitalization, a subject many American cities are faced with at the moment.  I talk mostly about Youngstown in…

  • Map of Seventeen

    I found out this past weekend that my novelette, “Map of Seventeen”, will be published in the next installment of Viking’s YA anthology series that editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling are putting together.  So far Ellen and Terri have edited three in this series:  The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, The Faery Reel:…

  • Want to go to the Nebula Awards?

    Abebooks.com has joined up with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to offer a chance for readers to win two tickets to the Nebula Awards Banquet in New York City this May 11th through the 13th.  No travel is provided, but a two-night stay at the Marriot is included, so if you live in the…

  • Crawford Award

    Congratulations to M. Rickert, whose first collection Map of Dreams is this year’s winner of the Crawford Award!  The Crawford Award is given to a fantasy novelist whose first fantasy book was published during the preceding 18 months. It’s one of several awards presented by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and is…