From David Gerrold this month comes [brain fart edit] a new story [/brain fart edit]; Bruce McAllister offers a brief tale of a pulp writer; Melanie Fazi (courtesy of translator Christopher Priest) tells the tale of two missing children; and Gene Wolfe takes the reader to the asteroid belt for a tale of futuristic documentary filmmaking. Also, just when you thought it was safe to stop sending us poetry, we bought a humorous poem from Sophie M. White.
SCI FI Wire just published a piece I wrote about horror writer Weston Ochse’s Stoker Award nomination for Best First Novel.
The June 2006 issue of F&SF is now on sale. It features the following stories:
– “Animal Magnetism” by Albert E. Cowdrey
– “Counterfactual” by Gardner Dozois
– “Why the Aliens Did What They Did to That Suburb of Madison, Wisconsin” by Tim McDaniel
– “Hallucigenia” by Laird Barron
– “The Protectors of Zendor” by John Morressy
– “Terms of Engagement” by C. S. Friedman
You can read reviews here and here.
Spilogale, Inc. is the name of the publishing company that publishes F&SF. The company was named after the genus name of a spotted skunk, pictured here.
That picture is hanging above the archway that leads into the reading room.
There they are, Gordon’s Howies. That’s what the World Fantasy Award looks like, folks, isn’t it snazzy? (Hats not included.)
I don’t know where that Oscar came from; I think Gordon must have stolen it. They look so much bigger on TV…
One of the many silly things around the office. (Note: that’s not actually Gordon.)
Gordon and his sister apparently have a tradition of trying to give each other the ugliest gift every year. This was one of the things he received. More recently, she gave him that soap-on-a-rope gargoyle I blogged about earlier.
