Archive for April, 2007

F&SF May 2007: Favorite Story Poll

What was your favorite story in the May 2007 issue of F&SF? Cast your vote in the favorite story poll!

May 2007: Favorite Story Poll
VOTING IS NOW CLOSED

Selection  
Votes
The Master Miller’s Tale – Ian R. MacLeod 21% 6
Kaleidoscope – K. D. Wentworth 21% 6
Telefunken Remix – A. A. Attanasio 11% 3
The Tamarisk Hunter – Paolo Bacigalupi 29% 8
The Great White Bed – Don Webb 4% 1
Plumage from Pegasus: Grow Old Along with Me – Paul Di Filippo 0% 0
I wasn’t impressed with any of them. 14% 4
28 votes total

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F&SF April Acquisitions

April’s acquisitions include:

  • Balancing Accounts by James L. Cambias (7550 words)
  • A Ten Pound Sack of Rice by Richard Mueller (4500 words)
  • Who Brought Tulips to the Moon by S. L. Gilbow (5800 words)
  • She Rides (poem) by Sophie White (16 lines) 

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Wolf Bridges Human, Animal

Apr. 30 —

Fantasy author Jane Lindskold–whose novel Wolf’s Blood is the conclusion to her Firekeeper Saga–told SCI FI Wire that the series is about a woman who is the bridge between the animal and human worlds: human in shape, wolf in outlook.

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Interzone Goes Mundane

Andy Cox, editor and publisher of Interzone, has announced that the May-June issue next year will be a special issue devoted to Mundane SF, guest-edited by Geoff Ryman. What’s Mundane SF? Ryman says:

What makes a story Mundane? A few simple rules:

– no FTL travel or communications

– no aliens

– no time travel

– no parallel universes

– no immortality or telepathy

We believe that these SF ‘inventions’ are powerful myths whose presence may be drowning out some very important ideas. They may be entertaining to write and read about, but could there be something else we are all missing? The time comes when someone has to throw these babies out of the bathwater and see if there is life besides.

No matter how strong your convictions are regarding the inevitability of one, or all, of the above so-far non-existent phenomena, you can still write Mundane SF if you set your story between now and when the first of these becomes possible within your own personal belief system. 

Sounds like it’ll make for a cool issue. Stories should run between 2,500-5,000 words. Deadline is October 31, 2007. Submit here.

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Items of Interest

  • Shared Worlds: a new SF/fantasy workshop program for high school juniors/seniors, presented by Wofford College. This year’s keynote speaker is Greg Keyes.
  • Mass Perturbation Fantasies: a new SF review blog. Check out the review of “Elegy” by Melanie Fazi (from F&SF).
  • New Earth: the new Earth-like planet recently discovered just 20 light-years away looks a lot like a Chesley Bonestell cover. (via Quartz City)
  • TV Links: a vast array of links to streamable video of your favorite TV shows.
  • A Class Act: Marleen Barr writes to Locus and uses the VA Tech tragedy to pimp her book.
  • Paper Cities: Matt Kressel, publisher and editor of Sybil’s Garage announced that his own Senses Five Press will be publishing a new anthology: Paper Cities, edited by Ekaterina Sedia. It’ll be out in November 2007, but you can go read Catherynne M. Valente’s story, “Palimpsest,” right now.

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Odd Couple At Heart Of Virtu

Apr. 26 —

Fantasy author Sarah Monette, who is a current finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, told SCI FI Wire that her latest novel, The Virtu, is in a lot of ways the second half of her first novel, Melusine.

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Wastelands Update

Some of you may have noticed that Galleycat recently ran a little piece about the sale of my post-apocalyptic reprint anthology, Wastelands. Also, a notice recently ran in, I believe, Publisher’s Lunch, which my agent, Jenny Rappaport, replicates here.

While I’m at it, I should also say that the new pub date is Feb. 2008, I’m told. Also, I secured a few more permissions: Stephen King’s “The End of the Whole Mess” and Octavia E. Butler’s “Speech Sounds.”

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