… imagine what I could do for a new one. * * * A few posts back, faithful yard-apes may recall a certain gleeful noting of the fact that 10 years after it was published, the World’s Biggest Bookstore (shown above) in Toronto finally decided to stock a few copies of The Claus Effect, Karl […]
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Let me bend your ears about something for a minute. Or more to the point, let some of the elder Nickle men do so. Scroll down, and you’ll see three video links, to a three-part home doc I put together about a month back. It’s based on long conversation with my dad, Lawrence Nickle, and
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The launch is for Tesseracts Twelve, of which you’ve heard so much for so long. It’s happening on November 29, a Saturday, at three p.m., at Bakka-Phoenix Books. There will be cookies (Bakka Phoenix is well-known for their cookies). There will be me. There will be Claude Lalumière, Jill Snider Lum, Brett Alexander Savory, Grace
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… when leading up to what can only be described as a fulcrum moment in the history of America – and, one hopes, a terminus in the somewhat shorter history of Amerika – you doze off. There’s Obama, coasting along with something more than 200 electoral votes, Stephen Colbert on Indecision 08 desperately changing the
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… 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
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I say out-ish, rather than out, because the official launch is in a few days at the World Fantasy Convention in Alberta, and although you can purchase it here and here, I have yet to see it in a bookstore. But I post now to note a very kind review, from noted author and critic
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And look where that got us. Well, fool us once… We won’t make the same mistake in the oh-so-close American election. So, American yard-apes here goes. Don’t listen to these Russians. They’re obviously smitten. Listen to Obama Girl. She’s thinking straight. Alternatively, you can take a risk and go the classical route. Caligula for President:
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That being the consensus mind of judges into this year’s ChiZine short fiction contest (of which I was one). A few posts back, I copied a list of our top three winners. Well, now they’re online, here, in the latest issue of ChiZine. Go look. They’re good. And free.
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I say this never having met the fellow. But he’s got to have some smarts for pulling Tesseracts-Eleven, Cecil-Street-Irregulars pal-of-mine Madeline Ashby’s story Fitting A New Suit out of the slush-pile and posting it on his E-Zine FLURB. This is Madeline’s second fictional appearance (and the first one you get to read for free) and
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This is just a quick update on Pants Are For Company, for those of you who might have been setting your 2009 entertainment budget around an April release date for the collector’s edition of the collection. May as well keep that money in the term note for awhile longer, because Pants is being pushed back
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