Archive for December, 2010

Small Burdens

Lois Tilton at Locus Online was lukewarm regarding my “Stereogram” piece, but when my story “Small Burdens” came out in Strange Horizons back in March, she gave it a “Recommended.”  The other day, in her year-end wrap-up, she called it one of her three favorite Strange Horizons stories of the year: Strange Horizons, now on […]

Kuroda Bushi – A Translation

This isn’t the type of thing I usually put up on this site, but someone may find it useful one day, and it should be on the internet somewhere. A friend is studying to be an opera singer, and for a performance project she was assigned an old, traditional Japanese folk song called a min’yo […]

Well, That Could Have Gone a Lot Worse

The BSFA’s Short Story Club has ended, and they are in the post-mortem phase now.  My “Stereogram of the Gray Fort, in the Days of Her Glory” got some of the harsh treatment I expected, but it looks like my story polarized the group more than most, and the discussion also included a few comments […]