In Best American Short Stories 2007, edited by Stephen King, F&SF has one story reprinted and a few honorable mentions.
In the book:
Honorable Mentions (100 Other Distinguished Stories)
Here’s the F&SF-relevant info from Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best Science Fiction:
In the book:
Honorable Mentions:
* Slush Survivor
**Story by one-time slush survivor
Since all the cool kids are posting the honorable mentions from Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (edited by Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin Grant) that their magazines accrued, I thought I’d do so as well.
But first, reprinted in the book are:
Honorable Mentions:
* Slush Survivor
While on the subject of TV, why didn’t anyone ever tell me how freaking awesome Robot Chicken is? That show’s hilarious. It’s stop-motion animation random sketch comedy at its best. Don’t believe me? Check out this clip on YouTube and find out what happens when President Bush discovers his midichlorian count is very high…
And while you’re at it, also be sure to check out Flight of the Conchords, another great comedy show. FotC is about two New Zealand musicians trying to make it in the Big Apple. Every episode features some of the bands’ songs, which are presented as music videos within the context of the show. You can see (I think) every song/video from the first season here. Several of their songs are SFnal–including a great parody of Lord of the Rings (it was required they parody LOTR, being from New Zealand).
I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit that I’ve become hooked on watching Beauty and the Geek. For those that don’t know, B&tG is a reality show in which 10 female “beauties” and 10 male “geeks” all live in one house together, pair up into teams (one beauty/one geek on each), and compete in challenges designed to help the beauties become more than just a pretty face and help the geeks become, um, not socially retarded.
One thing that surprised me is how real the geeks appear to be. This isn’t one of those situations where you have people acting unlike themselves in order to get cast on the show; these guys are the real deal. And man, the producers really got a nice cross-sampling of geeks. This season they have a filker and a LARPer.
As if there were any question which one of these groups I most identify with, further evidence was provided in this week’s episode. During one of the one-on-one’s (when the beauty or geek talks candidly directly to the camera, out of ear-shot of the other contestants), one of the geeks was wearing a shirt (“Viva la Relativity!”) that I not only own, but was actually wearing right at that moment.
As I’ve mentioned previously, artist James Owen is illustrating Shimmer: The Pirate Issue. Not all of the art is done yet, but a few pieces are, such as this one and this one, and now we have the cover as well. He’s also posted a series of shots on the progression of the cover art from concept sketch to the final product.
SCI FI Wire print news, week ending
Avast! There’s not been much activity at ye olde blog lately, but I’ve got to run up the old Jolly Roger in honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day.To celebrate, the folks at Shimmer have released a trailer for the Pirate issue, have made the Pirate issue available for pre-order, and have made available one of the stories entirely FREE, which is just how pirates like stuff.
In other news, the reason the issue is now available for pre-order is that there were some slight delays, which have caused the publication date to be pushed back to Nov. 1, all set to debut at the World Fantasy Convention.
Oh, and check out some of the bloodthirsty pirate art by that rowdy seadog James Owen. (Plus even more art along with the free story!)
SCI FI Wire print news, week ending
SCI FI Wire print news, week ending September 7, 2007:
