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.
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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At long last, I present the table of contents for Shimmer — The Pirate Issue:
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.
Go forth and download!
As of Friday, June 15, 2007, SCI FICTION will no longer be availabe on SCIFI.COM.
SCIFI.COM would like to thank all those who contributed
and those who read the short stories over the past few years.
Soon it’ll be gone forever!
I can’t say this makes any sense to me. Why take it down?
UPDATE: Eugene Myers suggests archiving the site on your own PC for your own personal private use if you want to be able to access the site later. He recommends using HTTrack Website Copier.
UPDATE 2: Several people have also mentioned to me that SCI FICTION is completely archived on The Wayback Machine, here. On the internet, nothing ever dies!
June 13 —
Editor/lexicographer Jeff Prucher told SCI FI Wire that his book Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction attempts to cover the shared language of science fiction writers, critics and fans–as well as those terms that originated in SF and have subsequently been adopted by mainstream society or other subcultures.
What was your favorite story in the June 2007 issue of F&SF? Cast your vote in the favorite story poll!
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| Selection | ||
| Sweet Trap – Matthew Hughes |  15% |
5 |
| An Eye for an Eye – Charles Coleman Finlay |  18% |
6 |
| Wizard’s Six – Alex Irvine |  12% |
4 |
| First Was the Word – Sheila Finch |  3% |
1 |
| Lazaro y Antonio – Marta Randall |  38% |
13 |
| Elegy – Melanie Fazi |  6% |
2 |
| Plumage from Pegasus: It’s All Goodkind – Paul Di Filippo |  0% |
0 |
| I wasn’t impressed with any of them. |  9% |
3 |
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| 34 votes total | ||
May’s acquisitions include: