Some scattered thoughts, notes, links etc from around the Interweb:
- Jetse De Vries has resigned from Interzone. I’ve been meeting Jetse at WorldCons for the past handful of years, and I think he’s been doing a terrific job as part of the IZ editorial crew. We just spoke in Denver so it wasn’t a complete shock, but I am disappointed. I wish both Jetse and the IZ gang the best, and can’t wait to see what they come up with separately in the coming years.
- Subterranean has a new story up by John Scalzi. I really liked this. I don’t know if it’s one of the year’s best, but it’s a lot of fun. BTW, what is it with superheroes? I have a superhero story in Eclipse Two, this is a superhero story, and I just saw two new anthos of superhero stories in Planet Books. Is it the Marvel movie goldrush biting at a broader cultural level, or something else?
- Eclipse Two just disappointingly lost a story, and I’m debating trying to find another.
Interruptions come. More….
I think all of it comes down to change. Publishing goes through cycles, and recent media products exhibited great success in recent years. Batman, Ironman, Superman. Combine that with the fact that the U.S. is still engaged in a war, and you’ve got an environment where people want to see heroes, they want someone or something to come along and save them. Subconsciously, I think it makes people more acceptable to those particular tropes.
Thanks for the kind words, Jonathan.
We’ll see what the future brings, although I surely hope it’ll include us having a drink sometime, somewhere (if not World Fantasy, then in Melbourne at the latest).
Best of luck with finding a replacement story for Eclipse Two and a belated thanks for the acknowledgement in Eclipse One (which I bought at Denvention).
Definitely. I’ll be in Calgary, and in various WorldCon type events to come.