… then you all do too. From boingboing: Now take a moment to uncurl from that foetal position, and join me in congratulating the winners and honourable mentions from the 2008 Chizine Short Story Contest – in which yours truly was a judge. From Brett Alexander Savory’s blog: Final results!Here we go, folks. Thanks to […]
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Saw this one on boingboing, and usually I’d leave it at that. But after checking out the above gateway-drug video, I noticed that the twisted puppeteer of terror Matt Ficner had posted a couple of other, less wholesome videos (do I have to say not for kids? I guess I have to say not for
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… not me, this time — I’m way past first times for most things that you can safely blog about in these repressive times — but my pal Madeline Ashby, whose first published story, descriptively titled “In Which Joe and Laurie Save Rock and Roll”, made honorable mention in Gardner Dozois’ Year’s Best Science Fiction.
Well, I’m back now, from my weekend at Polaris — where we spoke of Balthar’s nosebleed and Dexter’s fake orgasms; Cronenberg’s Dracula and Cordwainer Bird’s The Starlost; novels that are too long to sell, and stories that are too short to bother about. All in all, a good, busy weekend out, spent talking to people
I’m going to Polaris in Toronto this weekend! As a guest! With television actors! Some explanation may be in order. Polaris is a big old science fiction convention that until Star Trek effectively went away a few years back was Toronto Trek. Now it’s a convention devoted to SF with a media slant, with a
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So yeah – Jonathan Coulton, Superstar of the American Internet, came up to see the Canadian Internet last night. And the Canadian Internet saw him back. At least we did: we being me, my partner Karen Fernandez, and Peter Watts and Laurie Channer. Karen, who knows her way around a Canon Powershot like no other,
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