Okay. Peter Watts is free right now (although that freedom could well be fleeting). And he is not a squid (although that is what his friends call him). Nonetheless, I’d like to direct you to Free The Squid, a comprehensive website set up by U.S. fan Chris Knall over the past few days: freethesquid.org. It’s […]
Just heard last week from the folk at Pseudopod, that my story in Tesseracts Thirteen, “The Radejastians,” will be adapted for podcast sometime soon. This will mark the third story of mine performed on the long-running weekly horror fiction podcast. To get a sense of how it might sound – go listen to the first
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It’s been two days since we began fundraising for Canadian sf writer Peter Watts’ legal defense – and the response from around the world has been staggering. The money that’s come in to date will see Peter financially solvent through the first hump of this ordeal – so thank you, world – but we have
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I got a detail wrong in the account I gave of Peter Watts’ incarceration, in the post below. I had understood that he had been released from custody in Port Huron, wearing nothing but jeans and a denim shirt, during a snowstorm – then walked across the bridge to Canada. In fact, officials in Port
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This posting might seem redundant coming as it does at 6 p.m. on Friday afternoon. But I honestly thought that waiting just four or five hours after putting the word out to Cory Doctorow and John Scalzi about my friend Peter Watts’ nightmarish legal situation, I would still be timely in posting a plea for
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We drank tea and ate scones and sang Cthulhu Christmas carols and carried on like the risen dead at the Merril Collection – and as a final Christmas miracle, my laryngitic voice held out long enough to render a uniquely terrifying reading of “The Mayor Will Make A Brief Statement And Then Take Questions.” As
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… and we’ll see how it goes, this Christmas Cream Tea reading. I spent the last couple of days battling laryngitis, and this morning have something resembling a voice. So I’m going to try and read a short story in such a way that won’t ruin everybody’s Christmas and start a run on returns for
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This came in from author Kaaron Warren (Slights), at the Mind Meld section of SF Signal yesterday, wherein she and other authors of note were asked to pick their favourite things of 2009: Best short story collection: Monstrous Affections by David Nickle. The cover is creepy, tapping into that visceral reaction we have when the
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I just found out yesterderday that Monstrous Affections is on the ballot for the 2009 Black Quill Awards. It is up for a prize in the category of Best Dark Genre Fiction Collection, alongside collections from Dennis Cooper, Robert Dunbar, Tom Cardamone and James Currier. This award, sponsored by Dark Scribe Magazine, is a young
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A little belated note to those of you in Toronto who either belong to or think you might like to join the Friends of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy in Toronto, and also want to pick over the sad remains of ChiZine’s stash of first-edition Monstrous Affections: Come to the library’s
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