Monthly Archives: September 2004

We all need a cause…and there are many good ones. My latest is not the most serious in the world, and certainly doesn’t address any of our globe’s many injustices, but it’s my cause and I’ll blog if I want to. Earlier this year Tor Books – a fine company that publishes many excellent books … Continue reading »

Niall Harrison, over at Coalescent, is reviewing Lucius Shepard’s enormous new 300,000 word short story collection Trujillo, story by story, here. Also, Ellen Datlow has just published Howard Waldrop’s latest story “The Wolf-Man of Alcatraz“, which you should check out.

This morning has been a bit of a blue morning. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been listening to a cd of acoustic reworkings of old Stephen Cummings songs and some old Elvis Costello country music, or because colliding deadlines are leaving me a bit out of sorts. It’s probably not a good thing, … Continue reading »

Niall Harrison has set up a Livejournal community, Short Form, for the discussion of new short SF and fantasy. If it lives up to the last Short Form, Scott Card’s review zine, it should be a valuable thing indeed.

The year is hurtling to a close, and with it the reading period for Science Fiction: Best of 2004 and Fantasy: Best of 2004. With a little luck, Karen and I’ll have final tables of contents for both books in a week, and I can then get down to the job of writing introductions and … Continue reading »