You might notice a brand new counter in the sidebar. No, I didn’t change the title of something, I just had the experience (last Friday in fact) of my muse coming round, slapping me on the back of the head and screaming in my ear; “NO! You’re going to write Read more…
Well things have gone completely insane at the day job, rendering the posting here rather sparse. My department has lost two employees (really three, but the one was essentially a volunteer), and guess who’s taking up the slack? So the writing and the blog have suffered (60-70 hour weeks will Read more…
Yay! I just got my author copies of Blood & Rust: Two Novels of the Cleveland Undead, DAW’s omnibus reprint of Raven and The Flesh, the Blood, and the Fire, my two vampire novels. (Actually I got 16 of 40 copies, at 640 pages the book is kind of fat Read more…
Thanks to the SF Signal Blog, over the past few weeks I’ve had the chance to read a couple of articles about the politics of science fiction. It’s interesting to compare the thoughts of Eric S. Raymond and David Brin about the political subtext of Science Fiction in general, as Read more…
First in what I hope to be a ongoing series on the technical aspects of writing fiction, particularly genre fiction, and even more particularly, SF/Fantasy fiction. A challenge to all writers, and SF/Fantasy writers in particular, is the troublesome need to get across all the important background details that the Read more…
About the other anthology: My story “Fealty” is about the strange return home of a knight from the siege of Antioch, and his final crusade. From the cover blurb: Assassins—are they born or made? Do they choose this role out of necessity, because someone or something forces them to, or Read more…
As requested, a little info on the antho and my story in it. My story, “The Historian’s Apprentice,” is in large part a homage to Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun. It is a far-future Dying Earth story set long after an apocalyptic man-machine war that’s left the moon Read more…
Just got covers for two anthologies that are going to contain my stuff: Places to Be, People to Kill will be coming out June 2007, will contain the story “Fealty.” Man vs. Machine will be out July 2007, and will contain “The Historian’s Apprentice.”
My post on the definition of SF has spawned another discussion . . . It’s kind of fun seeing how my comments morph elsewhere on the net.
Pondering lists of movies got me thinking, in true stream-of-consciousness fashion, about what actually defines the genre. After all, quite a lot of purists have tried to say that Star Wars should be rightly categorized as Fantasy, and the Incredibles— and superhero stories in general– seem to step outside any Read more…