Post Category Paul on 30 Jun 2014
I spotted the July/August issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction featuring my story “Subduction” in my local Barnes & Noble this morning. There it is, tucked between Tin House and Rosebud. And in a cool bit of synchronicity, today’s xkcd comic was called “Subduction Licence.” So in case you were wondering, that’s subduction. . […]
Post Category Paul on 27 Jun 2014
The Kindle digest version of the July/August Fantasy & Science Fiction is up on Amazon now. It’s free. And it features my story Subduction. You can get it here. Choose “Buy Now With 1-Click” and it will show up in your Kindle reader, or in the Kindle app you have on any other device. Get […]
Post Category Paul on 26 Jun 2014
I’m just going to say this, and if you can’t deal with it, tough. The American Museum of Natural History, where I have been an educator and tour guide for the last thirteen years, will open an exhibition of live spiders and other arachnids on July 4. It’s called Spiders Alive! And I am one […]
Post Category Paul on 25 Jun 2014
The critics have started to post reviews of the July/August issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction, which includes my story Subduction. The first one we heard from was Lois Tilton in Locus Online — she gave my story a “Recommended,” and wrote: Excellent adult fiction…an inspired notion, and the prose makes it a joy to […]
Post Category Paul on 17 Apr 2014
The embargo is over and I’m free to announce this: My story “Subduction” has been bought by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, to appear in the issue guest-edited by C.C. Finlay (July/August)! This is a particular thrill for me because I recall reading F&SF as far back as middle school, and it was […]
Post Category Paul on 08 Feb 2014
Holy cow, has it really been this long since I last posted here? Here are a couple of items to bring the news about my writing more or less up to date: Last July my story “Good Deaths” appeared in the anthology Zombies: Shambling through the Ages. “Good Deaths” is two parts Japanese ghost story […]
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 […]