Writing Eugene Fischer | 02 Mar 2010
The April/May double issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, containing my story “Adrift,” is now in stores. This is what the cover looks like, complete with a list of other people I am totally stoked to be sharing a table of contents with!
Look mom and dad! Finally! My name, up in ink!
Texas & Writing Eugene Fischer | 01 Mar 2010
Missions Unknown is a blog about science fiction, fantasy, and horror topics in San Antonio, run by John Picacio, Sanford Allen, and Paul Vaughn. Last week Sanford interviewed me for their regular feature, “Made in S.A.” He asked about my stories, my background with writing, Clarion, and my current interest in the Texas State Board [...]
Blog & Writing Eugene Fischer | 27 Jan 2010
Rabbit Hole Day 2010 has nearly been and gone without my doing anything to recognize it. Too many distractions this year. But this seems a fine time to collect in one place the Twitter and Facebook messages I churned out a year ago today.
MICROBLOGGING RABBIT HOLE DAY 2009
Jan. 26, 11:42 pm: Oh hell. Less than [...]
Blog & Writing Eugene Fischer | 27 Nov 2009
There is an interesting article on The Language Log about a particular type of misnegation that, until it was presented to me in a context that said, “this is wrong,” I was unable to see the problem with. It has to do with phrases of the type No NOUN is too ADJECTIVE to VERB. For [...]
Blog & Clarion & Fiction Eugene Fischer | 25 Sep 2009
To begin, other people’s good news:
First, and long run most important, Mary Anne had a baby! Howdy, Anandan. Welcome to the world.
Paul Berger sold one of his Clarion stories, “Small Burdens” to Strange Horizons. It should be showing up next year in the Spring, and it is a marvelous piece of work.
Meghan McCarron also sold [...]
Fiction Eugene Fischer | 09 Sep 2009
Keffy’s last publication was in the print magazine Sybil’s Garage, so I couldn’t link to it. But this one is online at Apex Magazine. This was another of Keffy’s Clarion stories, and has one of the best first lines that showed up that summer. It is also, as so many of his stories are, suffused [...]
Art & Writing Eugene Fischer | 05 Aug 2009
I can’t stop thinking about Brock Davis’s sculpture in this post. It is so suggestive of genitalia, as it was intended to be, but it isn’t actually shaped anything like any human genitals. It’s just a decorated aluminum can. And to me it equidistant between male and female, suggesting both, but neither predominantly; a clever [...]
Blog & Books & Fiction Eugene Fischer | 13 Jul 2009
So I’m paying hosting costs for this site, right? I bought a domain name and everything. I should do something with it. Here’s what I’m doing right now:
I’m in a bar, lurking in corners with my laptop and munching tiny hamburgers. Creepy and delicious! Even more exciting than what I’m doing right now: things on [...]
Clarion Eugene Fischer | 29 Apr 2009
Steffi wrote the first draft of this story at Clarion last summer, and after a couple of pages I put my pen down and forgot I was supposed to be critiquing because I was so engrossed by it. Steffi has a gift for marrying the mundane to the unsettling, and while this story of parasitic [...]
Amusing & Writing Eugene Fischer | 24 Apr 2009
Well, at least, I’m big enough to have had my work plagiarized by someone ostensibly from Ghana. The Grin Without A Cat blog reports the receipt of a strange submission for an anthology of fantasy stories by Filipino authors:
Specifically, someone sent in a pseudo-submission with this intro:
From: samuel ansah asare
Date: Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at [...]