Disunited Imagines Alternate America
Hugo Award-winning author Harry Turtledove–whose novel The Disunited States of America is a finalist for this year’s Sidewise Award for works of alternate history–told SCI FI Wire that the book is set in the late 21st century in a world where the Constitution didn’t replace the Articles of Confederation and the United States fell to pieces in the early 19th century.
Harbingers Is Repairman Jack’s 10th
Sitting On A Throne Of Lies
F&SF May 2007: Favorite Story Poll
What was your favorite story in the May 2007 issue of F&SF? Cast your vote in the favorite story poll!
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| The Master Miller’s Tale – Ian R. MacLeod |  21% |
6 |
| Kaleidoscope – K. D. Wentworth |  21% |
6 |
| Telefunken Remix – A. A. Attanasio |  11% |
3 |
| The Tamarisk Hunter – Paolo Bacigalupi |  29% |
8 |
| The Great White Bed – Don Webb |  4% |
1 |
| Plumage from Pegasus: Grow Old Along with Me – Paul Di Filippo |  0% |
0 |
| I wasn’t impressed with any of them. |  14% |
4 |
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F&SF April Acquisitions
April’s acquisitions include:
- Balancing Accounts by James L. Cambias (7550 words)
- A Ten Pound Sack of Rice by Richard Mueller (4500 words)
- Who Brought Tulips to the Moon by S. L. Gilbow (5800 words)
- She Rides (poem) by Sophie White (16 lines)
Wolf Bridges Human, Animal
Interzone Goes Mundane
Andy Cox, editor and publisher of Interzone, has announced that the May-June issue next year will be a special issue devoted to Mundane SF, guest-edited by Geoff Ryman. What’s Mundane SF? Ryman says:
What makes a story Mundane? A few simple rules:
– no FTL travel or communications
– no aliens
– no time travel
– no parallel universes
– no immortality or telepathyWe believe that these SF ‘inventions’ are powerful myths whose presence may be drowning out some very important ideas. They may be entertaining to write and read about, but could there be something else we are all missing? The time comes when someone has to throw these babies out of the bathwater and see if there is life besides.
No matter how strong your convictions are regarding the inevitability of one, or all, of the above so-far non-existent phenomena, you can still write Mundane SF if you set your story between now and when the first of these becomes possible within your own personal belief system.
Sounds like it’ll make for a cool issue. Stories should run between 2,500-5,000 words. Deadline is October 31, 2007. Submit here.
Items of Interest
- Shared Worlds: a new SF/fantasy workshop program for high school juniors/seniors, presented by Wofford College. This year’s keynote speaker is Greg Keyes.
- Mass Perturbation Fantasies: a new SF review blog. Check out the review of “Elegy” by Melanie Fazi (from F&SF).
- New Earth: the new Earth-like planet recently discovered just 20 light-years away looks a lot like a Chesley Bonestell cover. (via Quartz City)
- TV Links: a vast array of links to streamable video of your favorite TV shows.
- A Class Act: Marleen Barr writes to Locus and uses the VA Tech tragedy to pimp her book.
- Paper Cities: Matt Kressel, publisher and editor of Sybil’s Garage announced that his own Senses Five Press will be publishing a new anthology: Paper Cities, edited by Ekaterina Sedia. It’ll be out in November 2007, but you can go read Catherynne M. Valente’s story, “Palimpsest,” right now.
