Now there’s a goal: become so famous a writer that hawt alt-girls write dirty tribute songs about you. And this is a picture of Mr. Ray Bradbury’s reaction to watching the video:
Hey folks, good news! The Tangled Bank, an anthology of spec-fic centered around themes Darwinian, has launched. Edited by Chris Lynch, it’s an anthology that strives to fill a fairly shocking gap in science fiction — fiction about evolution. It’s amazing that, given that evolution may be the single greatest, life-changingest scientific discovery ever, there [...]
So on January 14–my birthday!–I and two other contributors to the Interfictions 2 Anthology gave a reading at the Solas Bar that was sponsored by St. Mark’s Bookstore. Jeffrey Ford and Alaya Dawn Johnson read, respectively, “The War Between Heaven and Hell Wallpaper” and “The Score,” while I got through about half of “The Assimilated [...]
So the new Tor.com is out, and it is pretty snazzy. For those of you who haven’t been following, Tor has, for months now, been teasing the sci-fi community with freebie fiction and wallpaper giveaways, all building up to their new vision for a sci-fi/fantasy/horror/bizarro clearinghouse. You ask me, I think its plans for the [...]
Blind Irishman sees with the aid of son’s tooth in his eye Thu Feb 28, 1:30 AM ET DUBLIN (AFP) – An Irishman blinded by an explosion two years ago has had his sight restored after doctors inserted his son’s tooth in his eye, he said on Wednesday. Bob McNichol, 57, from County Mayo in [...]
Note: I’ve edited this entry to clarify what I meant and to remove an inflammatory comment I made. Interzone is England’s longest-running Science Fiction publication, and this month, besides featuring Michael Moorcock, they have published my story, “Exvisible.” I couldn’t be happier: this is my second time to be published in Interzone, and both times [...]
I haven’t checked every online sci-fi mag in existence, so I suppose I can’t answer this question with absolute scientific certainty. But I am guessing yes. Strange Horizons is an Internet success story: the work they publish gets nominated for the biggest awards in speculative fiction (Hugo, Nebula, etc.); they have built a lively community [...]
Courtesy of Wired magazine: “General Dubris” here is guarding the entrance to the 2007 Robogames. You can see more pictures here, including a frightening robo-clone of a mild-mannered Asian man, but this was by far my favorite. Just looks cool. Would make a good web banner. I could see basing a whole web concept around [...]