You know what happens when you move cross-country in the middle of the Strange Horizons fund drive? You forget -entirely- to mention it on your blog. Horrors!
Strange Horizons has been publishing fabulous science fiction (and related nonfiction) every week since 2000. I think we do pretty good work, and we’ve helped introduce some of the [...]
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Posted in science fiction | No Comments »>On a much lighter note: our TiVo picked up ET recently, and I watched it last night.
You know, I’m trying to remember the last time I saw ET. It may have been in Spanish class (and thus in Spanish) in tenth grade. ET is one of those movies that I always felt like [...]
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Posted in personal, science fiction | 2 Comments »>I have, officially, too many books-in-progress. (Reading, not writing.) I usually have two or three going at the same time–different ones for different moods, or different locations–but this has just gotten out of hand.
The current list of books I’m partway through reading, plus the reason why I haven’t finished them yet:
Africa: A Biography of a [...]
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Posted in personal, science fiction | 7 Comments »>Closing tabs, as they say.
I’ve seen a lot of people linking to this article from National Defense Weekly, about SIGMA, a group of science fiction writers who are offering their services to the US government in an advisory capacity. News of this group has been around for a while–the idea being, presumably, that people [...]
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Posted in academic, personal, science fiction | No Comments »>Just the other day, I was thinking that it must be some kind of indication about my personality that I got a warm fuzzy happy glow when I heard a newscaster on NPR use the phrase “giant robotic arms on the space station” and not be talking about fiction. Giant robotic arms! On [...]
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Posted in personal, science fiction | 2 Comments »>So, as promised, what I thought about some of the books on the big 2007 list. I want to start with a little disclaimer, though–these aren’t really book reviews proper. I think a good book review should probably have some critical infrastructure, and should certainly have more thought put into it. This [...]
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Posted in personal, science fiction | 8 Comments »>There’s something deeply satisfying about taking a day or two at year’s end to regroup, reorganize, reflect. In high school and college, I used to set aside time at New Year’s to re-read all of my old journals and diaries; that tradition stopped when I stopped keeping a diary, but I still like the [...]
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Posted in personal, science fiction | 2 Comments »>This week’s issue of Strange Horizons is the last issue for 2007–our regular end-of-year hiatus is two weeks this year, for arcane calendaring reasons. This week’s issue also has a new episode of the podcast, featuring an interview with Maggie Hogarth, in which we have a great time talking about how the internet is [...]
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Posted in science fiction | 11 Comments »>Strange Horizons needs someone who understands Movable Type to look at
(and fix) something for us. It’s a one-time troubleshooting thing,
fixing some blog templates, something that really won’t take you long
if you have any experience with MT, and it would help us a lot. Email
me (groppi@gmail.com) if you think you can help. [...]
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Posted in science fiction | No Comments »>There’s a particular misconception about the Strange Horizons fiction department that I’ve seen kicking around in a few different places, and I just want to get one clear definitive statement out into the dialogue: we do not have any intentional editorial practices that favor female authors.
Look, we know the numbers as well as our critics [...]
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