For those interested in my story “Sarging Rasmussen: A Report by Organic,” which is appearing in the Shine anthology, there’s an excerpt online. Yup, the story is what you might think it is from the excerpt: Pick-Up Artists meet the Green Movement meet the UN, basically. If you like it, there’s a huge pile of preorder links right there in the sidebar of the same page.
Tag: publications
Shiny!
oh my word, these pages, full of stars: how they Shine! The stars to which I refer are, of course, bright and shiny ideas about this future we’re tumbling toward, and not the authors, of which I am one. Just got my contributors’ copies of Shine, the new anthology of optimistic SF edited by Jetse de Vries that Amazon says is coming out on March 30th. I’ve only read a little of it, but it looks like a hell of a ride! If you want on, you can preorder it at a bunch of places: Jetse has links for all …
Alone With Gandhari
As of right now, my story “Alone With Gandhari” is online as part of Clarkesworld issue #42. (Yeah!) If you’re more of a fiction listener, I can happily direct you to the wonderful Clarkesworld podcast of the story in which the tale is narrated (and briefly but insightfully commented upon) by the ever-sensitive and dramatic reader Kate Baker. The rest of the lineup is well worth checking out, too: Jeremy L.C. Jones interviews Kij Johnson (about, among other things, her Nebula-nominated “Spar,” which appeared alongside my last story in Clarkesworld) and there’s a short piece on neuroscience and SF by …
Purdy Covers and More Publication News…
Well, it’s time for an update. I may have mentioned some of this before, but to make sure I’ve mentioned it all: Carmelo Rafala has added my story, “The Broken Pathway” to The Immersion Book of SF, Vol. 1, which is due out sometime this spring from Immersion Press. It’s a story near to my heart, because it’s set in the neighborhood where I live, but a little over a century ago, during the Sino-Japanese war (the bit that trespassed into what is now “Korean” territory). It features Korean monks, a Japanese geomancer, some government officials, and the mountain I …
Apex Readers’ Poll and Anthology
Well, the final edit for “The Bodhisattvas” is finally in the can (thanks to Jonathan Strahan for very useful nitpicking and questions), and I’ve been nudged to mention that there’s a reader’s poll over at Apex for the best new fiction piece (“Story of the Year”) of 2009. Tons of good work there, so if you’ve been reading Apex Magazine this year, check out the list, maybe refresh your memory, and vote for what you liked best… which of course is my story, “Cai and Her Ten Thousand Husbands”, right? Right? Speaking of which, the Apex anthology collecting “Cai…” and …
Six Word Story, Ahem,
Not that I consider this a serious publication, but I figured, if Ernest Hemingway (and a bunch of Wired contributors) could do it, so could I. (Arrogant, I know. Well, actually I figured that if he could do it powerfully, I could do something maybe passable.) The result is, I have a “six-word memoir” coming out in this book. I get a contributor’s copy, but no money, of course. It’s amusing, though I’m not really in the practice of giving away content, really. I am actually not fond of But it is just six words. Since I don’t have any …
Shine Acceptance
Well, way back when, Jetse de Vries (who, I’m pleased to see, makes me feel much better about my own lack of posting here — he hasn’t updated since summer!) announced he would be putting together a short-story collection titled Shine, featuring optimistic near-future SF. Of course, I immediately began working on something, and what do you know? When I met him this summer, he told me that he was taking the story I submitted to him. Between that and the bearhug he gave me on first meeting, Jetse made quite an impression on me, and it was a very …
Banned in China: Your Assurance of Quality Content
The title of this post is a throwaway comment Bruce Sterling made in his lecture, “The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole” (mp3, video with terrible audio), in the course of mentioning that most scientists who are able to do the scary stuff that frightens Bill Joy are unlikely to be willing to take up residence in the caves of Afghanistan or up in North Korea just to get the freedom to research things that have been banned by everyone else. It reminded me of a funny thing an ex-student in Beijing told me — this blog is blocked …
“Of Melei, of Ulthar” — Online at Clarkesworld!
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 …
“SF in South Korea Today” — Article Live
For those following my on-and-off series on SF in South Korea, I just got an email from Jetse de Vries that my article summing up my recent gleanings on the topic, and also including a certin amount of the information I got from an “interview” I had with Jeong So-Yeon at Sobaeksan, has gone live at Shine Anthology’s blog. You can see it here.