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The Wall of Storms, by Ken Liu
Review copy provided by the author.
When Ken Liu's The Grace of Kings came out in 2015, I found myself unable to review it objectively. Objectivity was impossible. The stories I'd heard as a child about the fall of the Qin dynasty and the rise of the Han had been incorporated into a Polynesian-themed wuxia fantasy, blending elements made ( Read more... ) -
All Our Differences and All Our Stories
Hey, all.
So in my last post, I mentioned that there's a Kickstarter up for the Hidden Youth anthology, which I'll have a story in if it gets funded ( Read more... ) -
Fiction update
Hey, all. It's been a while since I last posted here, and it turns out I have some news.
1) I have a story--"Blood Reckonings"--up in Beneath Ceaseless Skies #201.
2) Hidden Youth, the follow-up to the anthology Long Hidden, is running a Kickstarter. If it's funded, my story about a half-Hakka female Taoist exorcist banishing ghosts at the end ( Read more... ) -
Some Thoughts on Reviews, Comprehensiveness, and 'best' short stories
So let's talk a little bit about short fiction reviews, the rhetoric of 'best', and stuff like that.
Neil Clarke had an editorial recently in which he argued that short fiction reviews don't have much value - his proxy for 'value' being whether they drive readership, in terms of measurable impact on incoming web traffic. With some exceptions - he ( Read more... ) -
New story in BCS
So my story "Fire Rises" is in this week's Beneath Ceaseless Skies ( Read more... ) -
Putting the Fun back in Fungus
So in addition to today being release day for Last First Snow, Mrissa has a new story up on Strange Horizons: "It Brought Us All TogetherAs I've said elsewhere, I'm particular fond of this one, because I feel that it gets many things about the performance of grief and the ways compassion is and isn't extended in the wake of tragedy exactly right. Plus, ( Read more... ) -
Premise vs. Structure vs. Text
So this year I was on the pre-convention Seminar before Fourth Street. Despite covering professionalism, voice, and critique in 3 separate discussions, we barely got through half of the things we had notes for, which is about par for the course. So here are some notes on one of the topics we didn't get to.
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Do not approve. Still not resigned.
So I gather from twitter (of all the ways to find out) that irishninja died today. I only met him once in person, in San Francisco when he was in town for the weekend, but he was someone I could talk anime and symphonic metal with, and who seemed genuinely happy editing the website for Magic: the Gathering. I would say he had a good heart-- and he did, in ( Read more... ) -
Minicon panels
So I'll be at Minicon 50 this year, and should you want to see me on panels (or at my reading with mrissa) here are the times and places and topics involved.
Friday, April 5, 1:00 PM - Anime and Manga for Speculative Fiction Fans: From the days of Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy and its intelligent robots, manga and anime with science fiction and fantasy ( Read more... ) -
Not a review: Foundational Narratives and the Grace of Kings
So. Let's talk about foundational narratives ( Read more... )