Month: October 2009

SETI Workshiop at Daejon KASI

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As part of the 60th Annual International Astronautical Congress hosted by KASI in Daejon this year (which is, by the way, the International Year of Astronomy!), Dr. Rhee Myung-hyun (an astronomer I met while taking part in the SOAO workshop earlier this year) organized a workshop on SETI and sent me an invitation to it. I decided to set aside a couple of classes (with makeup classes to be held, of course) to make the trip down to Daejon and hear what the discussion would entail. My friend Mark, also known as the physicist down the hall, joined me and …

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The Singularity Ate My Homework and Other Database Wrestling

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My employer doesn’t have good access to any of the fulltext databases with literature stuff (like MUSE or JSTOR). While it looks like this might get rectified in the next while, I am not going to be able to get my hands on this article. Which, in case you’re lazy, is titled “The Singularity Ate My Homework and Other Reasons I Can’t Predict the Future” by Ariel Mameon. It was published in the New York Review of Science Fiction back in 2004, is apparently available in the Texas A&M database.  Or am I misunderstanding the listing? I’m wanting a look …

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Of Melei, of Ulthar

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“Of Melei, of Ulthar” appeared in the October 2009 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine, which was thrilling for me. (And even better, it appeared on the Locus 2009 Recommended Reading List! And got an Honorable Mention in Gardner Dozois Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection, and was on the long-list for the British Fantasy Awards 2010!) The story was also reprinted in Ross Lockhart’s Lovecraftian anthology The Book of Cthulhu II in September 2012, and was podcast by Far-Fetched Fables at the end of September 2014. I was especially happy to have my work appear at Clarkesworld, as  it was one of …

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“Of Melei, of Ulthar” — Online at Clarkesworld!

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New story! New story! My newest story — “Of Melei, of Ulthar” — is online in the October 2009 issue of Clarkesworld, along with a very intense story titled “Spar,” by Kij Johnson. (This is also the story being podcast this month at Clarkesworld, too!) (Interestingly, we have shared a table of contents before, in Asimov’s SF, last summer. It’s a pleasure to share a TOC once more with as distinguished an author as Johnson. Here’s her website, by the way.) EDIT: Ugh, and as someone whose own work has appeared in the nonfiction section of Clarkesworld before (here), I’m …

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