Archive for October, 2003
viola!
October 31st 2003 at 5:50 pm
Done. Yah! It’s dead quiet because everyone is off at WFC enjoying themselves but I started ‘Necahual’ the ground up rewrite of a former not so good story on Monday and finished today a much, much better piece.
Now it’s off to the editor, winging its electronic way there.
Time to celebrate.
More Men Writing Science Fiction as Women
October 31st 2003 at 4:24 pm
Over at Books a Million the indefagitable Harriet Klausner weighs in with the following:
Popular male writers provide engaging new tales in this anthology and successfully do so from a female perspective. The concept is intriguing, but obviously gimmicky too. The tales are well written entries that cross (no pun intended the gamut of sub-genre lines. […]
Booklist weighs in on Men Writing SF As Women
October 31st 2003 at 4:12 pm
Amazon.com: Books: Men Writing Science Fiction As Women
Like Women Writing Science Fiction as Men (2003), Resnick’s new challenge anthology (”Hey, buddy, write a story from the perspective of a woman!”) yields results ranging from silly to genuinely touching, about everything from space exploration to a crazy cat-lady who is actually the AI in charge of […]
More Amazon Search Stuff
October 31st 2003 at 12:15 am
I have the most creative headers for these don’t I?
Anyway, Amazon.com sales jumped 9% on searchable books. I wonder if that is temporary as people play with it, or is it an actual feature that improves people’s ability to find and buy what they want?
I know the BNA (big name authors) in SF tend to […]
Holy Quantam Computing Batman!
October 31st 2003 at 12:11 am
Slashdot | Quantum Computing Breakthrough in Japan
The CNOT gate when coupled with a rotational gate would create a universal gate. The universal gate would be the basis for quantum computing. ETA for the first quantum computers: 10 to 100 years
SCI FICTION rejection
October 31st 2003 at 12:03 am
Ellen Datlow turned down one of my more kick ass stories. Drat.
Meanwhile I took Friday off and I’m here at the stroke of midnight jamming on a ground up rewrite of a story for a deadline that’s right now. I don’t imagine sleep is much of a possibility in the future, but man am I […]
Idea Unlimited
October 30th 2003 at 11:43 am
The New York Times invited a number of public figures to comment on technology that they would like to see. Cyberpunk maestro William Gibons weighs in with:
William Gibson: Lies Exposed in Telltale Colors
I want to PayPal for some nameless download out of an offshore data haven, something that feeds every piece of Web news […]
Amazon searches
October 29th 2003 at 10:54 am
Amazon.com: Books: Mojo: Conjure Stories
There is a lot of debate among writers and writers associations about Amazon’s new search technology that lets you search within the books themselves.
I have no clude what to think. But above is a link where the first 3 pages of my story in Nalo’s Mojo: Conjure Stories anthology ‘Death’s Dreadlocks’ […]
dishwashing moments
October 29th 2003 at 8:24 am
At the rumormill in Jim Van Pelt’s topic he writes
My best sentences and most moving stories are composed in the shower or while I’m washing dishes, but by the time I get to my computer, the wondrous and soaring structures have faded to whatever I end up getting on the page.
I have major washing dishes […]
Cat Trim Accident
October 28th 2003 at 5:36 pm
Cat Trim Accident
Just go and look.
I’m still laughing.
I’m sorry for the cat, but I’m still laughing.
