Ramsey Shehadeh and Epidapheles in F&SF
I should probably call this post, Keyan Bowes and the Insufficiently Immodest Author.
Browsing at Borders on a rainy evening, I flipped through the spec-fic magazines - and there, in Fantasy and Science Fiction, was a story by my Clarion 2007 classmate, Ramsey Shehadeh. It was called Epidapheles and the Insufficiently Affectionate Ocelot.
Before I explain my utterly gleeful reaction, I should say two things, okay three things: Many of our classmates keep each other informed when they sell stories. Ramsey isn't one of them. Many keep us informed when a story is published. Ramsey isn't one them either. And Epidapheles and the unsatisfactory ocelot wasn't a Clarion story.
However: We did workshop a different Epidapheles story at Clarion, and it was a delight. I'd say it's in the same genre of intelligent lunacy as Terry Pratchett. So this was a terrific surprise, and I'm about to read it with great anticipation.
[ETA: I read it. It's wonderful. Epidapheles has a familiar called Door, who's an invisible sentient chair. The story has sword-wielding vultures and a goblin army...
I believe F&SF will also be publishing other Epidapheles stories.
(And Ramsey: We'd love to know. In advance. So we can watch for it.)
[ETA: I can't believe I misspelled Epidapheles four different ways in this post... corrected now.]
[ETA2: I can't believe that not only did I spell Epidapheles five different ways, all of them were wrong.]
ETA 3: F&SF has put it on line!]
Browsing at Borders on a rainy evening, I flipped through the spec-fic magazines - and there, in Fantasy and Science Fiction, was a story by my Clarion 2007 classmate, Ramsey Shehadeh. It was called Epidapheles and the Insufficiently Affectionate Ocelot.
Before I explain my utterly gleeful reaction, I should say two things, okay three things: Many of our classmates keep each other informed when they sell stories. Ramsey isn't one of them. Many keep us informed when a story is published. Ramsey isn't one them either. And Epidapheles and the unsatisfactory ocelot wasn't a Clarion story.
However: We did workshop a different Epidapheles story at Clarion, and it was a delight. I'd say it's in the same genre of intelligent lunacy as Terry Pratchett. So this was a terrific surprise, and I'm about to read it with great anticipation.
[ETA: I read it. It's wonderful. Epidapheles has a familiar called Door, who's an invisible sentient chair. The story has sword-wielding vultures and a goblin army...
I believe F&SF will also be publishing other Epidapheles stories.
(And Ramsey: We'd love to know. In advance. So we can watch for it.)
[ETA: I can't believe I misspelled Epidapheles four different ways in this post... corrected now.]
[ETA2: I can't believe that not only did I spell Epidapheles five different ways, all of them were wrong.]
ETA 3: F&SF has put it on line!]