My Clarion Workshopmate Shawn posted about RevolutionSF’s Clarion, Schmarion: A Fiction Contest. Heh.
Tag: Clarion West 2006
Neil Gaiman’s “I Cthulhu
Amusingly, earlier this summer one of my instructors suggested I should try writing crazy things when I am working on short stories. One of this suggestions was a story from the POV of Cthulhu. Looks like that one’s been done, by Neil Gaiman, in fact. For the record, I assumed comedy would be the only way to go, too.
Clarion West 2006 Instructors and Awards
Both Paul Park and Ian R. MacLeod are up for this year’s Sidewise Award, and it’s a very nice thing to see two such talented individuals being recognized, especially for an award for work in a subgenre I myself enjoy so much — alternate history. And in very big recent news, Paul Park is also up for the World Fantasy award 2006 for the novel format.
So How Was Clarion West?
All of my wriggling and trying to say it didn’t get much across, but Tinatsu went ahead and made a new blog and then said it better than I thought possible. For anyone wondering how Clarion West was, go read that post.
Jazzpunk
In honor of the novella I wrote in week 6 of the workshop, an alien-infested alternate history story that Vernor Vinge claimed was to jazz what hard SF is to science, when my turn for facepainting came during one of our final parties, I asked whether Tina could do the script you see below. It reads “je-jeu pun-keu”, which is how one would write “Jazzpunk” in Korean. (Though I might have misspelled that first vowel… it’s always a guess whether it’s a-e or eo-e. I predict the two will be collapsed into one vowel, probably a-e, within 200 years. Which …