I'll be making a return appearance as Jim Freund's guest on "Hour of the Wolf" this Saturday, August 9th, on WBAI 99.5 FM, from 5:00 am to 7:00 am, Eastern Daylight Time. We'll certainly talk about my science fiction,
Any mathematicians or physicists out there? I'm working on a story that takes place on a torus-shaped space station. Assuming the torus is one mile in radius (1584 meters) and revolving around its center, I'm trying to calculate what the rotational period of the station
My short story "Kevin17," from the February 1995 issue of F&SF, was just reprinted in that magazine's Russian edition: That's my original byline in the upper left corner, D. William Shunn, transliterated.
Well, █████ and I had a splendid weekend. We started out with cheap, yummy Thai food at Sea, Second Avenue and 4th Street. I had a lychee mimosa, and ate the lychee. Then we walked down to the Bowery Ballroom to see what maybe possibly this time really will have been
A marvelous little treatise on the difference between science and religion.
This morning on the W train, a slender blonde woman in a low-cut black slip of a dress and oversize black wraparound sunglasses sat diagonally across from me making slow, wet love to a cherry-red Charms Blow-Pop. (It's a gray, humid day in the city,
My short story "Love in the Age of Spyware" (originally titled "Observations from the City of Angels") has just debuted at Salon.com: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/07/16/city_of_angels If you're not familiar with Salon (unlikely in this
Looking back over the past few years, I'm astonished at some of the things I've accomplished. I don't need to enumerate them here (although it would be fun), but I will point out that I now ride my bicycle to work once or twice
Don't you hate it when you work on a post for half an hour, submit it, and the web broswer can't connect to the server? And then you hit the BACK button and the form reloads and your post is gone? Yeah, I hate it when
So I was hanging out in the newsgroups at sff.net when my friend the gifted writer Mark Bourne made some kind of self-effacing throwaway comment about the relative modesty of his own accomplishments in comparison to my fiction sale to Salon. Well, I couldn't let this
More on Clarion. It's pleasant to hear the the MSU administration is "rattled," though what that means to the survival of the workshop is unclear. This from the SFWA Online Update that arrives from time to time: Near the first of the month, Michigan State University
█████ woke me up a few minutes ago. About the first thing I said was: "Promise me we'll never have to live in a giant underground city populated by hostile warring factions."
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