Originally published on Facebook Oct 13 2013. Open letter to the independent bookstore: Today I was told that a reader of my acquaintance drove past the Barnes and Noble superstore in his immediate neighborhood, with its massive selection and ample parking, to travel the additional twenty minutes of local stop-and-start driving to the your establishment, […]
“Evangelist,” which sees print in the November ANALOG just now showing up in mailboxes, is likely my last original publication for calendar year 2015. It is, for those who care about such things, connected to my AIsource Infection future history, but freestanding. There are still a couple of reprints coming up, one in Ellen Datlow’s […]
On the subject of Lovecraft, to which we keep returning: My own take is that he was supremely talented at describing dread and disgust and horrifically deficient in describing anything else; his admitted and proud disinterest in people as subjects of fiction shows in his work and renders the whole remote and soulless. His racism, […]