Blog Eugene Fischer | 28 Oct 2009
“In some crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1947
SF/F Eugene Fischer | 23 Oct 2009
People interested in the ongoing discussion about the future of short fiction may be interested in the most recent episode of The Sofanauts. The Sofanauts is usually a show about current events in the SF field, but this week’s episode is a special with writers Jeff Vandermeer and Jeremy Tolbert and Asimov’s editors Sheila Williams [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 22 Oct 2009
It’s kind of appropriate that I’ve stayed in bed sick all day. Today is the 1-year anniversary of one of the most astoundingly terrible days I’ve ever had. I know, because it was so awful that the last thing I did before I went to bed that night was post about it on Facebook, for [...]
Amusing &Blog &Video Eugene Fischer | 22 Oct 2009
I’m been sick in bed all day, and the pressure in my sinuses seems to be pushing directly on the being-vaguely-pissy center of my brain. But as many of my friends are sick too, we can all goof off on twitter together. KatWithSword Have just learned that I am being nominated for a postdoc fellowship. [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 12 Oct 2009
Days 26 and 27 of my grandmother’s 1936 trip to Europe, covering her time in the Netherlands and Brussels. (Previously: Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.) Hague July 19, 1936 Sun. Landed this morning at 6 and went to our hotel (Du Passage) for breakfast. Then started on a sight [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 04 Oct 2009
Days 18 through 25 of my grandmother’s 1936 trip to Europe, covering the rest of her time in London and her trip to Stratford on Avon. (Previously: Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.) [London] Saturday Eve, July 11 [1936] Our trains got in this afternoon about 3:45 and by the time we [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 02 Oct 2009
Days 12 through 18 of my grandmother’s 1936 trip to Europe, covering time spent traveling in and around London and Torquay. (Previously: Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.) London Sunday, July 5 [1936] We started out about 10 this morning to see the changing of the guards but realized it was too late for [...]
SF/F Eugene Fischer | 01 Oct 2009
My friend and Clarion classmate Damien G. Walter has been agitating for a movement in support of speculative fiction’s short story markets, and it has culminated with Oct. 1 being designated Support Our ‘Zines Day. He is urging all of us to find ways today — monetary contribution, private communication, public oratory — to express [...]
