Well no, not really. Just forgotten under a pile of other, um, things. But now that I've unearthed (unsilconned? dug out of the bit bucket?) this account, I should do something useful with it.

Real Soon Now.

"The sleeper ship Raven sliced the icy, inky, tans-Plutonian darkness a light-year out from Earth." So begins "Poetic Justice", a deep-space psychological horror story that's also a tribute to Edgar Allan Poe's "A Cask of Amontillado". I wrote this for the anthology Space Horrors, and it is now available as an ebook for Kindle, Nook, and other ( Read more... )

I was very pleasantly surprised to see my collection Starfire & Snowball in the mid-30s on the Amazon Bestseller list. Granted, that was Amazon's Science Fiction Anthology list, but I'll take it. It's in e-book form; if you don't have a Kindle you can download free Kindle reader software for most computers and smartphones. More details a few ( Read more... )

There's been some weird stuff reported recently on the arXiv science preprint site. A couple of cosmologists point out that some fundamental "problems" with what we think we see in the universe -- dark energy and a deficiency of big-bang lithium -- go away if we just assume that space as a whole doesn't have to be homogeneous as to properties. ( Read more... )

I'm back from the North American Science Fiction Convention, NASFiC, in Raleigh NC. It was a lot of fun. I met a lot of my fellow writers from Codex, chatted with several editors, and did a bit of partying. More details on my home website here.

Clearly I need to put a more-prominent link to this on my browser, so that I can update it more frequently. A lot of stuff has happened in the past six months that I haven't mentioned here. See my home site (http://www.alastairmayer.com/) or facebook or ... well you get the idea ( Read more... )

November is National Novel Writing Month, and I've been head down cranking out the prose every day so far. I just broke the 45,000 word mark, 90% complete, so I'm into the home stretch. At least as far as NaNo is concerned -- most markets for the genre I'm writing in are looking for more in the 75k to 100k range. That's okay, my novel will ( Read more... )

MileHiCon, the Rocky Mountain regional science fiction and fantasy con, is this weekend. It's at the Hyatt in the Denver Tech Center.  Come have a good time.  Check the link for details.
I’ll be there, I’m on a few panels, but don’t let that stop you. ;-)

My short story "Light Conversation" has been accepted by Analog magazine! This is my first sale to Analog or any of the Big Three SF magazines (the other two being Asimov's and Fantasy & Science Fiction). I'm thrilled, I've been reading Analog since I was a teenager.  No, I don't know when it will appear yet -- probably middle of next year, from ( Read more... )

I really need to be updating this more often.  Apparently there's a Wordpress plugin that will allow me to do that from my main web page.  Ah well.

Footprints
Since my last post here, the Footprints anthology (edited by Jay Lake and Eric Reynolds, from Hadley Rille Books), with my story "Snowball", was launched on July 20th, the 40th anniversary of ( Read more... )