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 [...]
Tags: christmas, strange horizons
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 [...]
Tags: podcast, strange horizons, technical difficulties
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. [...]
Tags: strange horizons, technical difficulties
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 [...]
Tags: feminism, strange horizons
Posted in science fiction | No Comments »>There are a lot of great Halloween stories out there. I just want to point out the one that’s still my favorite: The Great Old Pumpkin, by John Aegard. A classic holiday tale!
Tags: halloween, strange horizons
Posted in personal | 1 Comment »>This started out as a slow morning–I puttered around a little with making coffee and washing dishes and whatnot before sitting down to check my email. As a result, it took me a little while to find out about the World Fantasy Award nominations, and to figure out why I had email from people [...]
Tags: strange horizons, twenty epics, world fantasy award
Posted in science fiction | 10 Comments »>The Strange Horizons fund drive has only about five days left before it ends. (We’ve extended it once already, we’re not extending it again. It’s over next Wednesday.) We’re currently about $2000 short of our goal. That’s not an impossible amount of money to raise in the time given, but it’s [...]
Tags: fund drive, strange horizons
Posted in science fiction | No Comments »>The problem is not, really, that I don’t have anything to say. It’s more that I have too much to say. I’ve got so many things that I want to write about that they’re all getting jumbled up with each other when I try to actually sit down and post.
Such as: the expected [...]
Tags: miscellany, strange horizons, teaching
Posted in academic, personal | 2 Comments »>Collected points of (possible) interest:
It’s fund drive month at Strange Horizons! We haven’t been publicizing this as much as we ought to, and I have a large share of the blame for that, but still, fund drive month! Your donations allow Strange Horizons to continue providing high-quality speculative fiction (and nonfiction! and poetry! [...]
Tags: mars, science, strange horizons
Posted in science fiction | 10 Comments »>What I assumed was a quick thinking-time housecleaning break yesterday turned into a full-scale cleaning assault. Somewhere around the point where I decided it was a good idea to sweep behind the hot-water heater, I realized what was going on. On some level, it is apparently very important to me to have a [...]
Tags: birthday, history, strange horizons
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