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The obligatory one-time self-promo awards eligibility post
I had four works published this year:
Novella:
* Lazy Dog Out, Asimov's, Apr/May 2016
Novelettes:
* Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man, Asimov's, July 2016
* Detroit Hammersmith, Zero Gravity Toilet Repairman (Retired), Analog, Sept 2016
Short Story:
* Belong, Interzone #265, July-Aug 2016 ( Read more... ) -
Disrecommendation
Do not adopt from Big Fluffy Dog Rescue.
I trusted them, and it was a disastrous, costly, and heartbreaking mistake. Zero responsibility or empathy. -
mumbling to myself, mostly
Yeah, I don't post here nearly enough. ( But I'm gonna post something long so I should probably put a cut here. ) -
The Obligatory Annual Awards Post
This is the stuff-I-wrote-in-2015-you-might-like post. I spend a lot of 2015 revising a novel, and I wrote a few pieces (including a novella) that'll be out in 2016, so again it's not a huge list. I really hate self-promo, so if you do too, I promise not to do this again until next year :)
Short stories:
Tuesdays, Asimov's, March. Strangers in a ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
As a note, summer is my insane time of year at work, and at home I have to joy (O rapturous joy!) of being relegated to dialup internet. No, not by choice. (Insert rant about the socioeconomic issues of evil cable corps and rural towns.) So if I'm slow to respond to comments, it's not for any lack of interest or respect for what's being said. It's ( Read more... ) -
On Fandom, Conventions, and Kids (revised)
This replaces my earlier post about this. Much of the text is the same. However, I had both bad information and missing information that I think is important enough to restart this discussion cleanly. Also, I want to be clear from the very beginning that what I want from this is not to foster recrimination or dwell on my own aggravation, but to ( Read more... ) -
The Three Body Problem, with spoilers
(by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu ( Read more... ) -
Public Service Announcement
Many years back, there was a summer where there were three or four separate news stories about people rolling their cars into ditches and surviving trapped there for a number of days, collecting dew off the windshield, eating old McDonald's sauce packets, etc. I thought about that, and what it would be like to be trapped in my car for days and days ( Read more... ) -
A Conversation With Adobe Technical Support
A summary ( Read more... )
