Editorial dreams
I don't think I've had a dream about editing before. Kind of funny that I should have one while I'm...
SH Flashback: “The Red Bride,” by Samantha Henderson
A new entry in my almost-weekly-again Strange Horizons retrospective: “The Red Bride,” by Samantha Henderson A bedtime story told to...
Yay, PG&E!
Yay PG&E customer service! Got home tonight, in a pretty good mood for the first time in a while, and...
Hugo-nominee gender update
I just followed a link to Kalimac's 2015 LiveJournal post showing author gender for Hugo-nominated fiction. I compared it with...
Introducing the Olsons, or the Olsens
About a year ago, I started going through the then-newly-digitized photos of my grandmother Helen's family. And I got a...
SH Flashback: “Talisman,” by Tracina Jackson-Adams
A new entry in my about-to-be-weekly-again Strange Horizons retrospective: “Talisman,” by Tracina Jackson-Adams A story about touch-hunger, and violence, and...
FBI file, continued
It's always a little disconcerting to get an envelope from the FBI. But in this case, it was another set...
Why I dislike Markdown
For those unfamiliar with it: Markdown is “a text-to-HTML conversion tool”—or, to put it another way, a simplified way to...
SH Flashback: “Archipelago,” by Anil Menon
A new entry in my almost-weekly Strange Horizons retrospective: “Archipelago,” by Anil Menon On an artificial island where everyone has...
Testing
I've now upgraded my and Vardibidian's journals to Movable Type 5.2. This is a test to make sure everything is...
SH Flashback: “The Fountain and the Shoe Store,” by Paul Steven Marino
A new entry in my nearly-weekly Strange Horizons retrospective: “The Fountain and the Shoe Store,” by Paul Steven Marino A...
SH Flashback: “L’Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars),” by Dean Francis Alfar
A new entry in my somewhat-weekly Strange Horizons retrospective: “L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars),” by Dean Francis Alfar...