Monthly Archives: September 2009

Saturday morning

The strains of John Darnelle’s Mountain Goats singing about Sax Rohmer (it always makes me think about Charles, who had all of the Fu Manchu novels), the girls sitting watching The Gilmore Girls (do they even get most of the … Continue reading

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Mind gets melded while the Fisch gets the prize!

John DeNardo just posted the first half of an new SF Signal Mindmeld, Behind the Scenes…How the Hottest Short Fiction Anthologies Are Created, and I’m included.  Looks like a great posting, and I can’t wait to see what discussion arises. … Continue reading

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Wednesday AM, quickly

A mixed morning, good folk.  Movement at last on the Godlike Machines front. For those of you who have been wondering, it looks like the book will now come out in January, 2010. I hope to see cover images and … Continue reading

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Asimov, with tears…

I’m in the midst of my odd catch-up style of reading for The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. Today was stories from a Peter Beagle collection, a few magazine stories, and Tor.com. The highlight of the day’s … Continue reading

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Reading

Oh, and right now I’m reading Ellen Datlow’s Lovecraft Unbound and Poe (I’m late getting to this one), Dann & Dozois’s The Dragon Book, Dozois & Martin’s Songs of the Dying Earth (I have to dip into this), issues of … Continue reading

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