Fovea &c.

I’m collaborating with a classmate from Clarion West (shall I out you, sir?). The working title, which my collaboratron said was a placeholder but I rather like, is “Fovea.”
Yeah, I had to look it up, too.
It is what looks to be my first story involving, you know, space suits, landing on a seemingly deserted planetoid, [...]

Wonmi Ghosts and Wonjjang Proofs

I was hiking Wonmisan (Wonmi Mountain) just now. It was dark, and got me to thinking about ghost stories. I’m supposed to be working on one independently, but I let it stall. It’s for this call for stories, but the problem is, I don’t really know any famous Korean ghost stories. When I’ve asked around, [...]

Fan Mail

I got fan mail today. Perhaps my first piece of Fan Mail ever.(1) It was about “Lester Young…” What a very nice feeling. It made my day.
But now I should clear off my desk and grade some essays and exams.
With a big grin on my face.

1. I’m not counting comments on the site here, because, [...]

Around the Corner…

Can you smell it? Just there, around the corner: the end of semester.
I’ve got three exams next week, though thank heavens two of them are oral exams and graded on the spot. I will receive a stack of fifteen essays to grade, feedback unnecessary since they’re “final exams” and Iam unable to return them to [...]

Asimov’s July ‘08 — Fictionwise eMagazine Edition Up

For those living outside of the English-speaking, American-magazine-distributed world who are interested in reading my recently-published story “Lester Young and the Jupiter’s Moons’ Blues” in the July 2008 issue of Asimov’s SF, you might be interested in the Fictionwise eMagazine edition.
(There’s DRM, of course, and I don’t usually buy things with DRM myself — though [...]

Linux/Nethead Injokery

I haven’t actually been working on “A Killing in Burma” lately — the semester has kind of turned into a swarm of bumblebees and I haven’t had much time to do anything besides school stuff — but I did get a little work done on my draft of “Ten Spikes and a Hammer,” a story [...]

Stuff Going On

Been busy like mad, and traveling for the next few days, but briefly:

I’m getting my students to release stuff (or let me release their stuff) online. The first in a series of projects is now up at YouTube: my Korean students considered popular stereotypes believed in Korea about foreign countries (like France, America, South and [...]

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