Today, we move back to discussing writing, specifically, the beginning of a writing career. Considering I’m barely out of that phase, it’s really the only phase I feel confident in discussing. So: Read Bilal wrote last week: I have been reading science fiction and fantasy for a long time. Given that I am a science grad […]
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International Science Fiction Collection
Lavie Tidhar has long been one of my favorite authors, and we frequently published him at the Fortean Bureau. He’s a fascinating individual and it shows in his writing, which is very often influenced by his growing up in Israel. I like exotic locales in my fiction, and Lavie has a way of making places […]
Postmortem: What the hell was #futureJer?
My 3 month long experiment in 140 character fiction posts ended on Sunday. You can read my serial fiction #futureJer on the Thaumatrope website here. The premise was pretty simple: I attempted to imagine my life 2 years into the future if our economy doesn’t get any better. It’s fairly grim, but has a touch […]
First Story of 2009: Engines of Survival, by Larissa Kelly
At least, the first one I have read. My goal is to read at least one a week now that I am writing again. My thinking is Strange Horizons Fiction: Engines of Survival, by Larissa Kelly. It’s always the little things in the future that are the hardest to adjust to. You’ll be walking in the […]