Friday Quick Notes
From Socialist Worker: As for Abdelhadi, a queer Muslim activist, she probably didn't feel better two days later when the cover of the New York Daily News featured a photo of a dashing Marine holding a...
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Elizabeth Saxe-Coburg's secretary is poring over ancient documents, wondering if there is any way she gets to vote 500,000 times and a day late.
View ArticleBirth of a Brexit Meme
"You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!"Photo by @jeremiahtolbert. pic.twitter.com/20KuMJdKod— Nick Mamatas (@NMamatas) June 24, 2016That tweet was my most successful ever thanks to...
View ArticleLet's Get Creepy
The latest issue of Nightmare Magazine is available for purchase, and it includes my story "Der Kommissar's In Town." Ebook now, free to read in two weeks.If you can't wait, let me suggest a story by...
View ArticleDallas
I certainly don't support the ambush shooting in Dallas last night, but...The "but" is not a defense of the ambush shooting in Dallas last night...butBut when people defend the Second Amendment as a...
View ArticleSecond thoughts from the Right Wing
Newt Gingrich on the police and African-Americans: "It is more dangerous to be black in America," he said. "It is more dangerous in that they are substantially more likely to end up in a situation...
View ArticleI AM PROVIDENCE creaks to life...
My forthcoming novel I Am Providence (pre-order now for August release!) received a starred review from Booklist, which reads, in part:This smart, fun novel is filled with hilarious satire. The story...
View ArticleSome free, some cheap
My story "Der Kommissar's In Town" is now live at Nightmare Magazine for free reading. There's a little Q/A with me as well.I'm pretty excited that my day job at Team Rocket is the latest Story Bundle!...
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Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters, despite sharing the name of the 1984 film, is not a remake. Sadly, it isn't even a retread. It is a weird mess. If it is similar to anything, it is to the many tween-oriented TV shows on...
View ArticleI AM PROVIDENCE stuff
Got a couple other early reviews of I Am Providence. From Hellnotes: This book is not parody, but rather some insightful knowing looks that fans of Lovecraft will get, but it is also broadly funny...
View ArticleDo Three Things Still Make a Post?
I Am Providence is shipping now from Amazon. People have copies in hand. Get yours.What to say about the major party conventions this year, except to note the large number of people upset that the...
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Back
Been incommunicado—well, except for massive tweeting and FBing, since they are phone-friendly. I Am Providence came out, after a fashion. Hard copies started flowing from Amazon a bit early, and the...
View ArticleLast Day of Haikasoru Story Bundle
My dayjob Story Bundle ends in eleven hours! Five or ten ebooks, name your price (floors of $5 or $15). Includes two Locus Award-nominated anthologies (The Future is Japanese and Hanzai Japan), Philip...
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Get Crazy, Be Crazy, Stay Crazy—A Chat with Erica L. Satifka
I was thrilled, almost exactly ten years ago, to find an amazing story in the Clarkesworld slush, by an author with no prior publications except for one piece in a small convention-based journal....
View ArticleTwo tendencies in reviews of I AM PROVIDENCE.
So I Am Providence has been out for a few weeks, and the reviews from both reviewers and readers have generally been positive, with a few unusual twists (e.g., the paperback smells like crayons), and...
View ArticleAnother cheap thrill
Got five bucks? Download Saiensu Fikushon 2016, a new e-first mini-anthology of Japanese science fiction from my day job.We'll have hard copies exclusively at Worldcon later this week. See you in the...
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Worldcon Report
A great way to handle Worldcon is to be a dealer, spend much of the day behind the table, have some low-key dinner with friends, swan through a party or two, and then retire to the room by 10:30 or...
View ArticleComing Up For Air
Hey all, over at BullSpec, I review the new H. P. Lovecraft biography In the Mountains of Madness: The Life, Death, and Extraordinary Afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft. It reads, in part:“Yes, but…” or “No,...
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