Blog &SF/F Eugene Fischer | 03 Jun 2011
After a year away I returned to my first and favorite SF convention, WisCon. I last attended in 2008, and had such a good experience that I sent Nalo Hopkinson flowers as thanks for having convinced me to go despite my incredulity. As good as 2008 was, this year was even better. A big part [...]
SF/F &Video Eugene Fischer | 04 Jun 2010
I’ve been in blog hibernation for a while, and it may continue a while longer, but this meme caused me to stir–if for no other reason than because I want this list of writers in a place I can easily find it. First, the wonderful 3 minute video that inspired it: Then the meme: Bold [...]
SF/F &Video Eugene Fischer | 13 Apr 2010
That’s what I’ve heard, anyway. And I think I can scrape up that many. First, some good news: my story “Husbandry” was given an honorable mention by Ellen Datlow for her anthology Best Horror of the Year Vol. 2. Thanks so much, Ellen, I’m thrilled to make your longlist. Next, a digital version of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
SF/F Eugene Fischer | 14 Aug 2009
For one day only, John and Kristine Scalzi will match donations made to Strange Horizons, up to $500. I got to meet Kristine and John at Worldcon, and they are fully as amazing people as this act of generosity would suggest. Let’s help them make the most of this awesome gesture. Donate to Strange Horizons [...]
SF/F Eugene Fischer | 13 Aug 2009
Karen Meisner has explained that she and the other editors of the online SF magazine Strange Horizons, which is run as a donation supported NPO, have a problem I can easily relate to: a lack of facility for self-promotion. I need to merely think back to how my high school councilors tore their hair trying [...]
SF/F Eugene Fischer | 01 Aug 2009
The world today is a subtly changed place, full of mystery and curiosities. The tide of popular opinion waxes on strange shores: Long familiar things have mutated into nearly unrecognizable forms: But the most important change of the day? That would be this: What? You don’t see it? Understandable. Look closer: My friend and former [...]
SF/F Eugene Fischer | 25 Apr 2009
It’s an incredibly strong year for the best novel Hugo. The nominees are Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother, Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, John Scalzi’s Zoe’s Tale, Neal Stephenson’s Anathem, and Charles Stross’s Saturn’s Children. I’ve now read four of these five, and though I don’t know if I will be buying an Anticipation membership and [...]
SF/F Eugene Fischer | 12 Apr 2009
My parents met and socialized with Theodore Sturgeon at the University of Kansas before they were married–they claim to have the only copy of Venus on the Half-Shell (written by Phil José Farmer pseudonymously) signed by the real Kilgore Trout. EDIT: My father wrote to correct me: they got Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut, [...]
