help save polyphony!
Deborah Layne (wheatland_press), publisher and proprietor of the wonderfully excellent Wheatland Press, has just posted the following message on her blog:In 2002, the Polyphony anthology series debuted. Conceived as a short fiction venue for stories that would skate gracefully across the boundaries of s

since everyone else is doing it...
My Nebula-eligible fiction for this current cycle (not that I think any of it has even the slimmest change to get nominated, but hey, if you're in SFWA and feel like throwing a little love my way, I certainly wouldn't mind):"Stuck" (short story), Farrago's Wainscot, July 2008"The Apokalypsis Pentaptych" (short story), Qarrtsiluni, December 2008"The Time Traveler's Son" (short story

appeal for a sold book
Before Janet and I moved to Singapore in March 2007, I sold or gave away almost a thousand of my books to lighten the load and set free the ones I didn't think I would read again. More than a few of them I have regretted letting go, and every so often I reach for a book I think I still own. However, I find myself now really missing my copy of The Norton Book of Science Fiction (edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery), especially as I have been given the task of constructing the six-week science fiction unit for Secondary Two Language Arts next year. It was the main text used for my very first class

new fiction: in jurong
Yesterday I tweeted that my novelette "In Jurong," had sold to Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. What I didn't mention is how completely surprised I was to sell it to them; it's very obviously a fantasy (whereas QLRS, being a respectable literary review, seems to normally only publish mimetic fiction, although I haven't read every issue, so I may be wrong about that), not to mention that it's told in second-person POV, which is tough sell anywhere. But the story does have local appeal (it's basically an alternate world where the Jurong Birdpark has taken over all of Singapore), and they

new fiction: the world, under
My latest contribution to The Daily Cabal has gone up today, called "The World, Under."I wrote this story grenade the night that Janet gave birth to our daughter Anya. Taking Tim Pratt's own experience with the birth of his son River as inspiration, I wanted to see if I could still write a coherent narrative on very little sleep. I guess whether it's coherent or not is up to you, the reader, but I think it works. It's the setup for the larger story to come, but hopefully it still reads well on its own.This piece marks my first conscious attempt at continuing a series