…F)“On Horizon’s Shores”, IGMS, issue 14, September 2009. Will email. You can find a longer list of what I published in 2009 here at my website. If you feel like reading anything in the short fiction department, feel free to email me and I’ll provide you with a e-copy (PS: the offer applies whether you’re a voting member or not; I’d be delighted to share what I published). Next post will feature actual content, I swear….

…live in an age of miracles because we live in an age of knowledge. Modern computers are finally powerful enough to process all the complex data contained within a human cell. The only barriers remaining between our present understanding a cure for any disease you can name are time and money. These are not insignificant barriers. New technologies are always expensive. And, to be blunt, the world has a limited supply of really smart people, and a n…

…in a scad of anthologies including two Year’s Best (Dozois’, and an audio compilation). 2011 is also the year I completed Obsidian and Blood, through publication of Harbinger of the Storm in January, and Master of the House of Darts in November, and saw the first volume translated into French. In RL, several things happen that I won’t go into, but the two things I can mention is that I changed jobs, and that the H and I moved back into Paris, aft…

…s 4-5/15) “The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn,” Usman T. Malik (Tor.com 4/22/15) Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com) “Waters of Versailles,” Kelly Robson (Tor.com 6/10/15) Novelette “Rattlesnakes and Men,” Michael Bishop (Asimov’s 2/15) “And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead,” Brooke Bolander (Lightspeed 2/15) “Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds,” Rose Lemberg (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/11/15) “The Ladies’ Aquatic Gardening Society,”…

…’s currently missing, but the basic plot is starting to be reasonably leak-free. At chapter 16 out of 25. Going to watch a few episodes of Chevalier D’Eon now, a decidedly odd anime set in France during the reign of Louis XV. Gorgeous backdrops, but obviously done by someone who had very little idea of the history of Paris–for instance, the obelisk of La Concorde was brought back by Napoleon, about 50 years after Louis XV; the big, large airy stre…

Still brainstorming the %% urban fantasy. Gotta figure out how to tie together a violent break-in and a fire at a middle school into the same plot… (preferably without having the same vilainous figure involved in both, because it’s such a cliché). On the plus side, I now have my romantic options for the MC figured, except there’s a pesky husband in the way… (I’m tempted to inflict random grievous bodily harm, but it feels like a copout). I sent o…

…ew copies of Obsidian and Blood and probably a few other anthologies. Feel free to drop by and chat! -Sunday 1pm: Youth and Youthfulness in SF Science fiction, in its dominant form, is an American invention, and stereotypically has the outward-looking optimism of a young country in its DNA. How can contemporary sf reflect the best of that tradition without over-simplifying its worlds? What is the role of writing YA and writing diversity in keeping…

…nada fine, but there’s a very high probability I might end up stuck in Montreal on Wednesday 🙁 Thursday 2:30pm-3:00pm: reading. Will be reading a longer portion from the novella On a Red Station, Drifting. Come if you like Vietnamese on space stations, food porn and strong female characters! Friday 1pm-3pm: group reading for John Joseph Adams’ Epic anthology (aka sharing a TOC with Ursula Le Guin and Kate Elliott, squee!). Vice President Suite (ro…

…stories by Ken Liu, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Nisi Shawl, Vandana Singh and many other fine writers. You can buy direct from Candlemark and Gleam here, either the physical copy or the ebook (and physical copies come with a DRM-free ebook), or on amazon. If not in the US, check the Book depository here. And, if you still need extra motivation, check out the reviews, interview and excerpt website here….

…as the natural order of things, too–that they had to modernize in order to compete, to become more Western because the West was so clearly intrisincally superior. They massively sent their children to Western schools–to London, Paris–to be educated as a mark of privilege. Some countries, like Japan or Thailand, managed to modernise and retain national independence and some measure of culture. Others… had less success. Yes, there was military super…