Intercom SF Station
Can anyone out there read Italian? This Italian SF site, Intercom Science Fiction Station, contacted me about reprinting some of my interviews (in translation). It looks pretty nice, but of course I can’t read it. Looks like they’ve got a reprint of Terry Bisson’s “They’re Made Out of Meat,” but other than that I don’t know what’s going on over there. I’m curious if anyone’s heard of them.
Lunacon 2007 — Pre-Launch
I’ll be attending Lunacon this weekend. Here’s my schedule if anyone’s interested:
SATURDAY: 7PM – 8PM
Title: Ask the Editors
Description: Magazine editors discuss what they’re looking for, what they see too much of, and do’s and don’ts for genre short story writers and poets.
Participants: John Joseph Adams, Douglas Elliott Cohen, Wendy S. Delmater[M], Marvin Kaye, Hildy SilvermanSUNDAY: 1PM – 2PM
Title: Escaping the Slush
Description: What makes a story or book stand out in the slush pile?
Participants: John Joseph Adams, Douglas Elliott Cohen, Liz Gorinsky, Peter Heck [M]
Wow, look at that broad range of topics!
Star Chamber Relaunches
Star Chamber: The Harbinger Saga, the online collectible-card game, relaunched at the New York Comic Con last month with the release of a new expansion pack called Maelstrom, Sony Online Entertainment director of development Scott Martins told SCI FI Wire.
F&SF’s February 2007 Acquisitions
February’s acquisitions include:
- Finisterra by David Moles (13,000 words)
- One Bright Star to Guide Them by John C. Wright (12,500 words)
- Salad for Two by Robert Reed (5,800 words)
Devilish Is Faust In School
Shimmer: The Pirate Issue update
Okay, so I’ve waded through most of the submissions now. I’ve still got 27 in my inbox that I haven’t read yet. Everything else has either been rejected or been set aside for further consideration (or possibly inexplicably lost–possible, but unlikely).
I want to say again how pleased I’ve been with the overall quality of submissions. I only wish more of them were shorter and/or I had more room for stories in the issue. Unfortunately, I received many stories that pushed the word count limit (5000), and some that exceeded it. Well, it wouldn’t be unfortunate if they were no good, but a lot of them were, so there’s going to be a lot of tough choices to make.
Looks like I have 29 in the “Under Consideration” folder, totalling more than 113,000 words. Admittedly, some of those are just stories I think I need to re-read to make sure before I pass on them, but still — that’s a lot of good fiction there, and less than a quarter of that is going to make it into the issue, so competition will be fierce.
For those wondering about overall numbers, I’ve got 100 stories in the rejection folder, so add that together with the 27 unread and the 29 under consideration, looks like we got 156 stories submitted overall.
Impact Wraps Axis Trilogy
Australian alternate-history author John Birmingham told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, Final Impact, concludes his Axis of Time trilogy.
Dude, do your own homework…
I got this email message at my MySpace account today:
I was searching Frankenstein on myspace and I stumbled upon your name. I have this essay to write about it, and I was wondering if you can help me? Is it ok if you give me an outline on what I should write about? Please help a brother out, thank you.
I am supposed to identify some aspects of Frankenstein that both reflect the Enlightenment and Romanticism and I’m supposed to explain what Mary Shelley might be stating or implying about both movements.
Please help! Thank you so much.
Anyone inclined to help the poor bastard?
I wonder how *my* name came up when he was searching for Frankenstein. There’s no mention of it on my profile…
F&SF Mar. 2007: Favorite Story Poll
What was your favorite story in the Mar. 2007 issue? Vote in the poll! Let your voice be heard!
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| The Helper and His Hero, Part 2 – Matthew Hughes |  26% |
10 |
| Dance of Shadows – Fred Chappell |  18% |
7 |
| The Devil Bats Will Be A Little Late This Year – Ron Goulart |  21% |
8 |
| Magic with Thirteen-Year-Old Boys – Robert Reed |  8% |
3 |
| Memoir of a Deer Woman – M. Rickert |  11% |
4 |
| I wasn’t impressed with any of them. |  16% |
6 |
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| 38 votes total | ||