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… Ad Astra being the Toronto science fiction convention (or the syfy convention, based on the apparently new thinking south of the border). It’s happening weekend after next (March 27, 28 & 29) here, and here’s my schedule: Friday 9 p.m. I’m in Salon 241, talking about the value of Hectic Day Jobs. (Panelists are […]

… but not, I fear, in the way that Zack Snyder intended. My good friend and j-school pal Shlomo Schwartzberg got me into a pre-screening of Watchmen last night – and I was pretty excited about it. I was, let’s be honest, desperate to love this movie. In 1986 when Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’

… sometimes gets onto Pseudopod. Just found out this morning that the folks at Pseudopod, who last year did this excellent rendition of “The Sloan Men,” want to do something similar with my story “The Inevitability of Earth” – a prime example, if I say so myself, of the select subgenre of gravity horror. The

… the continued postings of new positive reviews of Tesseracts Twelve (in which I have a story), like this review here? Tough.

Few posts back, you may recall me shouting-out Sticky Wonder Tales, a story by Hugh A.D. Spencer published some time ago and read by he and me on the internet more recently. Well, that reading’s got some attention. Cory Doctorow boingboinged it earlier this week, and before that the Internet Archive posted it, along with

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, I learned a couple of days ago, here, is gone. According to co-editors Kelly Link, Gavin Grant and Ellen Datlow, St. Martin’s Press will not be publishing their massive year-end round-up of horror and the fantastic this year, or likely ever again. And we’re all poorer for it. For

… here’s a shout-out for Hugh A.D. Spencer (and me!), whose story, “Sticky Wonder Tales,” is up at On Spec’s site as a dramatic reading, here. Why mention it in the yard? Couple reasons, thanks for asking. First reason: it’s a kickass story – funny and sad and just a little bit gross – and

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

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

… 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