My short story Galileo Day is out online in Albedo 2.0
It is a story from an alternate history line that forked from ours in 1633, at the acquittal of Galileo. Seventy years later, Catholic monasteries are centers of research and higher learning. Christopher, a Theobaldian monk, is working hard on his contagion theory when... he meets Jacob Brucke, his newly-discovered half-brother.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Friday, March 30, 2012
Norwescon 35 April 5-8, 2012, SeaTac WA
I will be attending Norwescon this year. Read more to see my schedule
Saturday, March 17, 2012
The wave/particle duality of stories (from PseudoEssays in Narratology)
We have always known that our stories have a wavelike nature. From the onset of our history, they spread by undulatory movements in space. They radiated from their sources and were captured by ears of the recipients. Sometimes they compelled those recipients to retransmit them. Some stories were so compelling, that they made rhapsodists out of their listeners, persons who spent their lives transmitting the story again and again.
Such stories traveled far and wide, echoing, amplifying, or cancelling each other. Thereby even the loudest of them had weaknesses peculiar to waves: often they were garbled in transmission, or their recipients resonated with the story so much that their retransmission became much altered.
Such stories traveled far and wide, echoing, amplifying, or cancelling each other. Thereby even the loudest of them had weaknesses peculiar to waves: often they were garbled in transmission, or their recipients resonated with the story so much that their retransmission became much altered.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Saturday, July 2, 2011
BeneFictions
On Thursday, 6/30, Horrific Miscue, a group of Seattle speculative fiction writers to which I belong, held a reading of prose at the awesome Inner Chapters cafe (which is also a bookstore!) The proceeds from the reading go to support Japan's recovery efforts.
I think I will express everyone's opinion if I say that the event went incredibly well, and was fun and rewarding both for the writers and their audience. No matter how small such events may be, they require a lot of organizational work, and nothing would have happened without contributions of effort by many Miscue writer-members. Big thanks are due to Liz Argall, Cat Rambo, Vicki Saunders, Tod McCoy, Randy Henderson, Dallas Taylor, and Rashida (Eddie) Smith, who volunteered their time to make things happen: the venue, press release, web publicity, artwork, chapbook printing, audio/video support, donations management. Most of the above-mentioned folks also read their fantastic prose (also available as a chapbook). Others who joined in reading were local authors K.C. Ball, Keffy Kehrli, Sandra Odell, Kris Millering, and myself. Our emcee, the incredible Caren Gussoff, introduced us so imaginatively, that those introductions alone could be considered her flash fiction improvisation -- a special for the event.
In short, if anybody out there is reading this blog post because of the BeneFictions reading by the Horrific Miscue -- thank you. We just may do it again sometime in the near future, and we will keep you posted.
I think I will express everyone's opinion if I say that the event went incredibly well, and was fun and rewarding both for the writers and their audience. No matter how small such events may be, they require a lot of organizational work, and nothing would have happened without contributions of effort by many Miscue writer-members. Big thanks are due to Liz Argall, Cat Rambo, Vicki Saunders, Tod McCoy, Randy Henderson, Dallas Taylor, and Rashida (Eddie) Smith, who volunteered their time to make things happen: the venue, press release, web publicity, artwork, chapbook printing, audio/video support, donations management. Most of the above-mentioned folks also read their fantastic prose (also available as a chapbook). Others who joined in reading were local authors K.C. Ball, Keffy Kehrli, Sandra Odell, Kris Millering, and myself. Our emcee, the incredible Caren Gussoff, introduced us so imaginatively, that those introductions alone could be considered her flash fiction improvisation -- a special for the event.
In short, if anybody out there is reading this blog post because of the BeneFictions reading by the Horrific Miscue -- thank you. We just may do it again sometime in the near future, and we will keep you posted.
My sci fi story Death, Rebirth. An Heir, a Karakuri is out in Abyss and Apex this month. I read from this story at this year's Norwescon. I am delighted by the choice of artwork, and the little lily flower section dividers are an awesome touch, considering that there are some -- well, unusual lilies in the story.
Thanks and compliments to the editors and staff of Abyss & Apex!
Thanks and compliments to the editors and staff of Abyss & Apex!
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Internet is the greatest humbling device of all times. Have an "original" idea? Just type it in, and you'll know in a second how many people worldwide thought up exactly the same thing.
For a while, I have been joking how one or the other of my scientific projects would end up published in the Journal of Irreproducible Results. Whenever the results were... well, not reproducible. Then I thought, why not call a blog that? So I did, for about a month.
Just now, someone who has apparently been misdirected to my blog in his search for Irreproducible Results on the Internet, politely told me to rename my blog because the REAL Journal of Irreproducible Results already exists and is trademarked. Oops, sorry, my mistake. Didn't mean to hijack anybody's search for the magazine of science humor and trick them into winding up in my blog.
So back to the old name it is. That one has not yet given anyone any trouble. I think.
For a while, I have been joking how one or the other of my scientific projects would end up published in the Journal of Irreproducible Results. Whenever the results were... well, not reproducible. Then I thought, why not call a blog that? So I did, for about a month.
Just now, someone who has apparently been misdirected to my blog in his search for Irreproducible Results on the Internet, politely told me to rename my blog because the REAL Journal of Irreproducible Results already exists and is trademarked. Oops, sorry, my mistake. Didn't mean to hijack anybody's search for the magazine of science humor and trick them into winding up in my blog.
So back to the old name it is. That one has not yet given anyone any trouble. I think.
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