Wylde’s Kingdom

… this time from The Fix – an online short fiction review. Read it here. Reviewer Jason Sanford loved or liked every story in the book, writing of them: “… not a single one of which isn’t good or great.” If I parse his review-let of “Wylde’s Kingdom” correctly, I’m guessing it falls into the […]

… among other things, counting the days until we will no longer have to use the word Ought to describe the current decade. Then it’s the teens, I guess. But that’s all a matter of amateur speculation for now. In the meantime, there’s business for fanciers of professional speculation: the 2009 Aurora Award nominations are

Yesterday (Saturday November 29, ’08) at Bakka-Phoenix is when it happened, just as I predicted here, for Tesseracts Twelve. As promised, there were cookies, and books, and readings, and after that signings. Jill and Michael did not do a Sonny-and-Cher style duet, but no one seriously expected it. Right? Here are some pictures, courtesy of

… because the reviews of the all-novella-all-the-time anthology edited by Claude Lalumière and contributed to by me are lining up. So far, it’s two-for-two. This one, from SFRevu reviewer Colleen Cahill, is just as kind as the last one (see below). Read it here. Here’s what she said about my story, Wylde’s Kingdom: “David Nickle

… in the form of a tiny slice of “Wylde’s Kingdom,” available here. The sample is the same one that’s included here, at Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing’s website. But this one comes with a soothing soundtrack (see above). And some wikis…

…Lalumière, that being, the editor of Tesseracts Twelve and my story “Wylde’s Kingdom,” of which you’ve all heard plenty on this blog over the past month. Claude also noted my tendency to drone on and on and on about T12 and my great big story, and so assumed that I’d seen the cover for the

Well that’s a cryptic old title line, isn’t it? In October it will be a tiny bit less cryptic, when Tesseracts Twelve comes out, with my novella “Wylde’s Kingdom” taking up large amounts of real estate between its covers. Claude Lalumière, the editor of this edition of the long-lived Canadian speculative fiction anthology, let me