Fighting words
Something Vardibidian said about this whole cartoon-inspired violence mess reminded me of something--although the below is at best a side...
Rebound
At the Evanses' Christmas dinner in 2004, I saw my old friend Lola for the first time in years.
Curly quotes
There continues to be tremendous confusion among some SH submitters over the distinction between curved (or slanted) quotation marks and...
RTF submission system beta test
If you'd like to submit a story to Strange Horizons as an RTF file (rather than converting it to plain...
Rangergirl and the case of the snappy dialogue
I'm about a quarter of the way through Tim's novel The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, and so far I'm enjoying...
Items: Awards
News and info about various upcoming sf-related awards: The Speculative Literature Foundation's Fountain Award is taking nominees. Editors, please send...
Not quite a record
In January, 2006, the Strange Horizons fiction department received 339 submissions, which is 3 short of the record set in...
Back home; my back; chair back
Arrived home safely on Sunday evening. My lower back has been hurting for the past week. It's sore in a...
Locus Recommended Reading List
Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading list for 2005 is now online. Congratulations to everyone whose work appears on the list! I...
R.I.P., Cynthia McQuillin
Just discovered that filksinger-songwriter Cynthia McQuillin died two weeks ago, on January 14, of renal and respiratory failure, at age...
Neology feed
In case anyone's interested but missed it, Irilyth has kindly set up a LiveJournal feed for my Neology wordblog. At...
Navigation
The first rule of Jed driving solo is: Jed can navigate, or he can drive. He can't do both at...