It’s time once again for BYU’s science fiction and fantasy symposium: Life, the Universe, and Everything. Here’s my schedule: Thursday, Feb. 11 Noon: Mormons in Horror Believe it or not, there are active LDS who read, edit and write horror fiction. What tensions do they see with their faith and culture and this genre? How does their belief... read more »
Whether or not you can nominate stories for the Nebula Award, I'm allowing free access to read my short story "The Robot Sorcerer" until the Nebula nomination period ends on February 15, 2010. The story was originally published in the December 2008 issue of InterGalactic Medicine Show, and under the transition to the new Nebula Awards rules, it is... read more »
My story "Attitude Adjustment," which was published in the September 2009 issue of Analog, has been selected for The Year's Best SF #15, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. This is the first time one of my stories has been chosen for one of the annual year's-best anthologies, and I feel very honored. The anthology should... read more »
My car is officially totaled. I should find out in the next couple of days how much money I'll get for it. Woke up this morning with neck and shoulder pain. Saw a doctor, who said I have "a classic case of whiplash." He prescribed pain medication, muscle relaxant, and physical therapy, but said I was likely to make... read more »
At around 9:09:45 AM today I was involved in a car crash while on my way to work. The following is reconstructed as best I can from my memory, the record in my GPS, and hearsay. I was driving eastbound on 700 North in Lindon. Approaching the intersection with State Street, I could see the light was red so I... read more »
My short story "Rejiggering the Thingamajig" (which happens to be my current favorite among my published stories) is now available in the January/February 2010 issue of Analog Science Fiction magazine. The Orem Barnes & Noble had three copies when I checked. The teleport terminal had not been built with tyrannosaurus sapiens in mind. Resisting the urge to knock human-sized chairs... read more »
Edmund Schubert, the editor of Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, called me the day before I left for the World Fantasy Convention to offer me a position as assistant editor. After thinking about it for a day, I accepted. I’ll mainly be helping to read stories submitted to the magazine, choosing which to pass along to Edmund. Since IGMS... read more »
Apparently I never mentioned on my blog that the audio fantasy podcast PodCastle bought my story “Accounting for Dragons,†which first appeared in InterGalactic Medicine Show. Anyway, if you want to listen to the story, it’s here. (It’s free.) Steve Anderson did a great job with the reading.
Today is the release day for two first novels by good friends of mine: Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick and Servant of a Dark God by John Brown. Becca is one of my writing friends I’ve known the longest. She and I were in an online class together back in 2002 and then in an in-person writing group for a... read more »
Some scientists in Italy claim to have done so by showing how the image might have been produced using 14th-Century technology. Of course, there was no need to go to all that trouble. There’s a much more authoritative source which debunks the Shroud of Turin. From the Gospel According to St. John, Chapter 20: 6. Then cometh Simon Peter following... read more »
