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I have a story out in the new issue of The Future Fire, a politically-oriented online SF magazine featuring a super-awesome ironical Nietzsche quote (perhaps the best kind of Nietzsche quote) about the value of escapism.

To invent stories about a world other than this one has ( Read more... )

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In which I digress (much) further about the not-coming apocalypse.

This is long. Sorry. I tried to break it into two parts, but it just wasn’t happening. Thanks in advance for your kind attention.


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I signed up to get a free copy of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction’s October/November “All-Star Anniversary Issue”, in exchange for which I am supposed to blog about it in some capacity. (See Gordon’s post about it in the F&SF blog, though I believe it’s now too late ( Read more... )

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Everybody please go have a look at Erin Hoffman’s excellent post on The Homeless Moon about the future of the print fiction magazine in the genre market. She addresses the realities of the situation with a frankness and practicality I haven’t seen-and it’s an undertaking I ( Read more... )

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Those of you who have not seen the movie might want to look away. I suspect there will be spoilers.

The Fountain is this movie by Darren Aronofsky about a doctor, Tom, researching an experimental drug from the Guatemalan jungle in order to find a cure for his wife Izzi’s brain ( Read more... )

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Funny how engaging with SF on this superficial level turns a lot of my fantasy-dependent opinions neatly on their heads.

I came across this post from Paolo Bacigalupi’s weblog (who I am more and more inclined to respect as both a writer and a person the more I read) about the ( Read more... )

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Thinking about this near-future post-global-warming apocalyptic utopian SF thing I’m working on, there occurred to me what seems like a great way to seriously screw up the earth. But I don’t really have the SF skills or the particular inclination to gloom and doom to write the ( Read more... )