Monthly Archives: September 2004

Hmmm. Don’t know if this new look is going to work out, but I’m going to try it for a little while. I’ve temporarily knocked out the comment links, but will put them back shortly, and have deleted the email contact info. That wil be fixed soon, too.

Finally…! … a sensible solution on how to stop Locus dominating the Hugos. Cheryl Morgan, in the latest Emerald City, suggests that we should “get 1,000 of your friends to go out and subscribe to Locus so that Charles goes above the 10,000 limit. I’m sure he wouldn’t mind too much.” I suspect not, either, … Continue reading »

As the short fiction season winds down for me, I’m slowly able to turn my attention to reading novels, which is a good thing. I love short fiction, but I need to switch back and forth from time to time, or I begin to get a little nutty. So, the other day I picked up … Continue reading »

Jeff VanderMeer mentions over at his blog that if you purchase a copy of his extremely fine collection Secret Life from the good folks at Ziesing Books you can get a personal, one-off secret life written just for you. I think this is an extremely cool, fun thing and readers of this blog should definitely … Continue reading »

Assuming all goes to plan, in the next two weeks or so I have to write two main volume introductions to Science Fiction: Best of 2004 and Fantasy: Best of 2004, as well as (I think) twenty-five individual story notes. I have previous notes for nine of the story authors, but that’s still something like … Continue reading »