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HANZAI JAPAN gets a rave in LOCUS
Happy to see that the October issue of Locus Magazine has a rave of my dayjob anthology Hanzai Japan. I won't quote the whole thing, though I'd like to, but here is the conclusion: All of which is to...
View ArticleBART follies Or overdose schmoverdose
Plenty of people sleep in the Civic Center BART station, which is in a bad neighborhood quickly becoming a good one thanks to city plans for hypergentrification. Literally, one can step over heroin...
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The Martian
I was a big fan of the novel The Martian, which I found surprisingly mature for a first novel, much less an originally self-published one. When Ridley Scott optioned it, I wasn't surprised, but only...
View ArticleNew Story: "The Twentieth-Century Man"
Broken Eye Books, which is a micropress with ties to gaming, has put its new anthology Ghost in the Cogs: Steam-Powered Ghost Stories up for pre-order. (It isn't ultimately to be Kindle-only, but it is...
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Hanzai Japan, edited by Nick Mamatas and Masumi Washington
Check out my first attempt at using the share button here on good ol' LJ. Anyway, nice review of Hanzai Japan below, which hits the streets next Tuesday. Please pre-order!Originally posted by mrissa at...
View ArticleNew in-person writing class
Starting this Thursday, my next six-week genre writing course starts here in San Francisco.I had some thoughts on the subject of teaching genre fiction writing as well.Tell your friends!
View Article"Eureka!" in GLITTERSHIP
My short story "Eureka!", which I wrote one lonely, rainy Christmas day a few years ago for the anthology Where Thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe is now live for both your reading and...
View ArticleFriday Quick Fiction
The latest issue of Farrago's Wainscot is now live. It's a fun little magazine—it's basically for mildly formally inventive fiction of any sort, but the overwhelming majority of writers published there...
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It's All About The Rice, Grasshopper
Putting the bottom line at the top: Bottom line -- Gene Mapper is the most original hard SF book I've read this year.Originally posted by dr_phil_physics at It's All About The Rice,...
View ArticleLaunch Day, Sick Day
Home sick. Like actually sick. The sleep for four hours in the middle of the day sick. It is the launch day for Hanzai Japan, so if you like my taste in short fiction, please pick it up. Locus reviewed...
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LJ is still the best, even though nobody reads it anymore
Twitter is trying to do what LJ managed years ago, by offering polling power. Except you only get two options, and short phrases. See?The Impact of Social Media Engagement on Author Popularity.— Nick...
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Opie's Halloween
Opie was alive last Halloween, when we went to Vegas, but he didn't really know what was going on. This year, he noticed the pumpkins, and the candy, and after a bit of coaxing enjoyed his bat...
View ArticleThe New World Fantasy Award statuette
So, was was announced yesterday, after several years of controversy, the World Fantasy Award will no longer hand out busts of Lovecraft ('the Howie'). Instead, the award will be...hmm, nobody has said...
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Found on Facebook
It's always so funny, the people in a "community" who have no role other than to try to make themselves the arbiter of who is in and who is out.The lower the status of the individual in the community,...
View ArticleThe long-awaited terrorist massacre?
The main obstacle for ISIS doing shooting attacks in the US is that they may just blend in with all the other mass shootings in the US.Imagine the interrogation:"Why did you shoot all these...
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THE PLEASURE MERCHANT by Molly Tanzer
Remember when every author had an LJ and you could just say "New book by vegan_vulcan and everyone would know you meant Molly Tanzer? Those were the days. But these days, today, Tanzer's new book The...
View ArticleGladys Knight and the...
I'm not a member of SFWA and haven't been for years, but I was interested to see that they had made their reading list (not a long list, not a nominee list) public. This will certainly have an...
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