Monthly Archives: January 2009

I’d only just discovered his music a year or two ago, and had slowly fallen in love with it.  And he’s dead. At 60. I am far more saddened by this than I’d ever have expected.

The post office is a tiny shore where, occasionally, wonders wash up.  This afternoon I went to collect the mail and found the advance uncorrected proof of Wild Thyme, Green Magic: Stories by Jack Vance. This is the third and almost certainly final volume of the work of the great Jack Vance that I have … Continue reading »

There is a report over at SFSCope.com that Realms of Fantasy will cease publication with its April 2009 issue.  If this is confirmed then it’s very sad news indeed.  Realms of Fantasy has been around since 1994 and seemed a very solid, dependable publication. With the loss of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and … Continue reading »

I just got news that Sophie Strahan has sold her first short story, “Pegasus Makes a Friend”, to children’s magazine Alphabet Soup.  As delighted as we are – and we *are* delighted – we caution the reader that this work should of course be read as juvenilia.  Sophie, who is now seven, was only six … Continue reading »

An uncertain day yesterday.  Marianne had to play trumpet with her band at local Australia Day citizenship ceremonies.  Such things are sufficiently dull that even she didn’t want us to go.   That said, a small part of me wonders when and if she’ll opt for citizenship herself.   She’s been here ten years nearly (this May, … Continue reading »