Electronic copies of two more new old stories have gone on sale at Fictionwise this week: * "Kevin17" (F&SF, 1995) * "Mrs. Janokowski Hits One out of the Park" (Electric Velocipede, 2003) Cheap! Cheap! Cheap!
For the past few days, I've thought I might smell just a dash, just a soupçon, just one wafer-thin mint's worth of natural gas in the kitchen. I would sniff, and my wife would tell me I was crazy. It happens. Last night I thought
In which Bill and his trainer Elder Fowler take charge of missionary work in the lonesome prairie oil town of Brooks, Alberta, and many naughty words are uttered as a result.
Sometimes you do something and you know it's wrong and you shouldn't do it as you're doing it. You know that doing it will make you look like an asshole, and that a lot of people will see you being an asshole, but you
Richard Bowes's short story "There's a Hole in the City" was very likely the best work of short fiction published on the Web in 2005. It's currently in the running, with nine other stories, for the Million Writers Award for Fiction. Never
We are attending the opening of artist Edie Nadelhaft's new show "Cuddle" at BAMA Galleries in Hoboken tomorrow evening. You should too. Edie's a friend of ours, but we love her work over and above the obligations of friendship, and we wouldn't
I was browsing Amazon and came across the following assertion in a customer review of Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century (Orson Scott Card, ed.): Early science fiction (pre-1960s, let's say) is almost inherently more worthwhile than most later science fiction. Discuss.
Meme via ❦holyoutlaw: Search Wikipedia for your birthday, minus the year. List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year each occurs. Neat Facts: * 1040: King Duncan I of Scotland is killed in battle against his cousin and successor Macbeth. * 1994: Ilich Ramírez Sánchez,
I popped uptown today to have lunch with my lovely wife █████ and a few of our friends. I met █████ and Anand outside their office, but we were nearly frustrated in our attempts to reach the next rendezvous point by the Mitzvah Tank convoy rolling down Fifth Avenue with a police
I'm a little late to the party, but the album in heavy rotation on my headphones this week is American Edit, a mashup of Green Day's American Idiot by Dean Gray (second-level nom de plume of Party Ben and Team9). If you haven't
The New York Times is reporting: Scientists Call Fish Fossil the "Missing Link" Talk about deep time! I am in awe. (I move that Tiktaalik roseae be nicknamed "Darwin Fish.")
I keep meaning to post a quick overview of what we've done since the start of the weekend, but as I put it off the list of things to mention becomes longer and the task of reporting more daunting. I'll just plunge in, like a dog
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