Archive for June, 2007
Dragon Caught Twixt Heaven, Hell
Half-Life Is A Twofer
Thirteen Mulls Altered Genome
This ‘Lady’ Is A Tramp
June 21 —
SF author John Hemry, who won the Analog Analytical Laboratory (“AnLab”) Award this year for best novelette and best short story, told SCI FI Wire that his winning novelette, “Lady Be Good,” is the story of the first officer of an honest but down-on-its-luck tramp space freighter, who has to decide how far to go to keep the Lady going.
Kushiel’s Story Continues
New Novik
If only I had time to read it right now. Alas, I won’t be able to get to it for like a week. Damn commitments!
‘Julian’ Is Set In Depleted America
June 19 —
Multiple-award-winning SF author Robert Charles Wilson, whose novella “Julian: A Christmas Story” is a current finalist for both this year’s Hugo Award and Theodore Sturgeon Award, told SCI FI Wire that the story takes place in an oil-depleted and depopulated future America in which the Union has 60 states.
Free F&SF Fiction
F&SF currently has Chris Willrich’s story “The Thief With Two Deaths” posted on our website. It’s sort of an experiment in web publishing, so if you think it’s a good idea, be sure to let Gordon and I know about it. Enjoy!
The Thief With Two Deaths
by Chris Willrich
ONCE IN THE RAMSHACKLE avenues where Palmary meets the sea, a poet loved a thief with two deaths. It might have been the May-December match of a hundred poor songs and a thousand worse jokes, save for two points which balanced the scales: owing to his odd condition the old thief more resembled a man of nineteen than of ninety-nine; and the young poet had a taste for graveyards.It was in a graveyard that they sealed their fates.
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Shimmer — The Pirate Issue: Table of Contents
At long last, I present the table of contents for Shimmer — The Pirate Issue:
- A Hand for Each by J. Kathleen Cheney
- Captain Blood’s B00ty by Jeremiah Tolbert
- The Blackguard of God by Melinda Selmys
- Come to the
- Interview: An Inconvenient Pirate by Jen West
- The
- Pirates by Adeline Thromb Age 8 by Marissa K. Lingen
- The Sweet Realm by Jill Snider Lum
- The Furies by Rajan Khanna
- The Perfect Hook by Justine Graykin
- Hard Times for Bartleby Crow by Grant Stone
This was a lot of fun to put together. I’m really looking forward to seeing the finished product (and the artwork by James Owen!), and to hearing what people think of the stories.