Monthly Archives: September 2009

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 humor? – lucky we’re still in season 2), an empty mail inbox, the vague feeling … Continue reading »

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. Today also comes with GOOD news. Jason Fischer of Not If Your Were the Last … Continue reading »

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 so on shortly. It’s going to be a joy to see this book published. I’m … Continue reading »

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 reading was “Eros, Philia, Agape” by Rachel Swirsky. Swirsky is a terrific writer who’s been … Continue 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 F&SF and Asimov’s,  while also catching up on stories from Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and Subterranean. … Continue reading »