Assorted sf items
Various things:
- Today's the first day you can send Zeppelin stories to David and Jay's anthology. The last day is in six weeks. I better get crackin'—I have a rough outline, but I haven't started actually writing the story yet.
- Jim Van Pelt has updated his Campbell-Eligible Authors list to include authors whose first eligible work appeared in 2003. The 2003-debut list includes several cool folks, including a couple whose stories we've published (Yay, Sarah! Yay, Barth!) and two rather astonishingly prolific debuts:
- Greg Beatty qualified with a story in The Mammoth Book of Road Stories in January and proceeded to see nearly sixty other stories published over the course of the year, in all sorts of venues from Sci Fiction to a variety of good semipros, not to mention some poetry and another four dozen stories still upcoming in various places.
- Jay Lake qualified with a Writers of the Future story in August. Jim VP doesn't list stories that appeared before the Campbell-eligible publication, or Jay's list would be probably be several times as long; since August, somewhere around 20 or 25 of Jay's stories have appeared in print, with another couple dozen upcoming in the next couple months, and that's not counting the two short-story collections. (See Sherwood Smith's review of Tales from Lake Wu.)
- Coincidentally, Greg and Jay both have stories in the shiny new issue of Abyss & Apex that went up today; this issue also features a story by Hannah Wolf Bowen.
- I feel like I'm being Jay's PR guy in this entry, so I won't mention that it was he who pointed me to Explore Mars Now, a nifty (though slow) site that lets you interactively explore a Mars base.
- Finally, an item that doesn't have anything to do with Jay at all: Chris Stires's SFReader article The Submission Pile, providing figures on number of submissions received by various sf-related publications. I posted some commentary about that in the editor topic at the Rumor Mill.
- Oh, okay, one more thing: a Guy Gavriel Kay essay on historical fiction and historical fantasy (among other things).
