My friend (and F&SF’s humor competition editor) Carol Pinchefsky just had an article published in The New York Times. It’s not about science fiction or writing–it’s the story of how she ended up with her husband–but go read it anyway!
You can now read the F&SF stories that have made the preliminary Nebula ballot on the magazine’s website. The stories are:
I recently posted about my collection of F&SF, mentioning how I had every issue except for the November 1983 issue. Well, aspiring writer and all-around cool guy Andy Wolverton came to the rescue and sent me a copy he’d picked up at a sidewalk sale. Thanks Andy!
Now my collection is truly complete. Excellent, he said, in his best Monty Burns voice.
Feb. 15 —
The Elysium Commission is a futuristic tale with a literate former war hero-turned-investigator. Author L. E. Modesitt wanted to consider what might happen in a generally capitalistic future society in which cloning and high-technology information systems are the norm.
If you go to http://www.cmdistro.com and type HATE into the search box, you’ll receive 14% off every title that has “hate” in the title.
One day only (today, duh). So go get your hate on!
Nova Swing is space noir, SF author M. John Harrison told SCI FI Wire. The book is set in roughly the same milieu as his Tiptree Award-winning novel Light.
Back in August, I posted about my visit to The Met, and was dismayed over the fact that I brought my camera, but neglected to bring a change of batteries, and so ran out of power after just a few photos. Well, I made another trip this weekend, this time armed with fresh batteries in the camera, and an extra pair in my pocket. As a result, I took lots and lots of photos this time. I didn’t get to everything in the museum I wanted to see, but that just gives me an excuse to go back. This time around, I documented the armor section pretty well, and I viewed a temporary exhibit on faces in medieval sculpture, though this exhibit forbade photography (even flashless, apparently).
View the whole set here.
