I'll be doing a book signing at the Orem Barnes & Noble on Saturday, January 17, starting at 1:00 pm. They will have copies of the Blood Lite and InterGalactic Medicine Show anthologies with my stories. (I believe they may also have a few Writers of the Future anthologies still in stock.) (more…)
I received a contract in the mail today for my short story "Attitude Adjustment." I figure it will appear in Analog before the end of the year. I wrote this story while recovering from getting stabbed four times in the gut by a masked man with a very sharp knife.
Probably the most useful government reform I can think of would be to have an unwaivable requirement that in order to vote in favor of any bill, a Senator or Representative must be present on the floor of the house for a reading aloud of the entire bill.
The online magazine Apex has reprinted (repixeled?) my Writers of the Future published finalist story "In Memory." It's free to read.
The Fix has reviewed InterGalactic Medicine Show #10, which includes "The Robot Sorcerer." Here's the money quote: The story is personal in scale and filled with mystery, action, and even tragedy. Stone explores many themes: the nature of life, magic versus technology, magic as technology, moral dilemmas, and self-sacrifice being only a few. He does so while also creating a... read more »
The InterGalactic Medicine Show Anthology, including my stories "Tabloid Reporter to the Stars" and "Taint of Treason," is now available as an audiobook from Audible.com.
I first read Brandon Sanderson's novelette "Firstborn" while proofreading the story for the Leading Edge, BYU's speculative fiction magazine, and I thought it was great. Brandon's usual genre is fantasy, but "Firstborn" is science fiction, and he pulls it off very well. Unfortunately, since the circulation of the Leading Edge is small, not many people had a chance to read... read more »
For any stock held now or bought within the next quarter and sold after 2010, reduce the long-term capital gains tax rate from 20% to as low as 4%, using a sliding scale of 2% reductions for each year the investment was held. This would have two major immediate effects: Encouraging investors to hold on to current investments for at... read more »
Edmund Schubert, editor of IGMS, has posted a little essay of mine about the writing of "The Robot Sorcerer." I'm glad that Edmund posts these essays by the story authors. One of the reasons I loved reading Isaac Asimov's short story collection The Early Asimov was because he interspersed the stories with autobiographical information, including how he came to write... read more »
My favorite short story I've read this year is "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" by Kij Johnson. It was originally published in the July issue of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, but now you can read it on her website.
