Post Category Paul on 07 Aug 2011
Two years ago I posted this anecdote about the stuffed chimpanzee in this photo. To recap, during the 1930′s, a curator in the American Museum of Natural History adopted the chimp on a trip to Africa, named her Meshie, and attempted to raise her as part of his human family for years, treating her like [...]
Post Category Paul on 19 Jul 2011
… and it’s wonderful! Grame Dunlop and Ann Leckie do a beautiful dual reading. The podcast is here: PodCastle 166: Stereogram of the Gray Fort, in the Days of Her Glory. It gets an R for violence! Also, Rich Horton’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2011 Edition, which includes this story, has just [...]
Post Category Paul on 05 Feb 2011
Okay, I know I’m starting to sound like a one-hit wonder here, but my Fantasy Magazine story “Stereogram of the Gray Fort, in the Days of Her Glory” continues to get some exciting attention. First: It made the Locus 2010 Recommended Reading List! Right up there with a bunch of real writers whose stuff I [...]
Post Category Paul on 05 Jan 2011
It looks like it’s time for spec-fic writers to start thinking about award nominations, and I want to point out my short story “Stereogram of the Gray Fort, in the Days of Her Glory,” which appeared in Fantasy Magazine in June 2010. I think it’s worth some attention. When it was published, Rich Horton wrote [...]
Post Category Paul on 18 Dec 2010
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 [...]
Post Category Paul on 04 Dec 2010
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 [...]
Post Category Paul on 01 Dec 2010
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 [...]
Post Category Paul on 11 Oct 2010
The members of Altered Fluid are donating a critique as part of the KGB Fantastic Fiction raffle. All ten current members of the group will critique a story up to 7000 words from the winning ticket holder, either in person or via Skype. Fantastic Fiction at KGB is a NY-based reading series featuring luminaries and [...]
Post Category Paul on 22 Aug 2010
The editorial staff of Vector, the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association, is running an online short story club – each week from late August through November, they’re discussing a noteworthy or interesting story that has been published on the internet recently. And I’m stunned to say they’ve selected my “Stereogram of the [...]
Post Category Paul on 02 Aug 2010
This month, Clarkesworld Magazine is running an interview with (most of) the members of Altered Fluid, in which we discuss writing, and writing groups, and each other. It was a lot of fun. Jeremy L. C. Jones emailed us the questions and we shared them as a Google doc. This let each of us answer [...]