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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Blog &Writing Eugene Fischer | 13 Apr 2009
My poll asking readers to tell me what genre they think my story “Husbandry” is has been up for a week now, and as of this writing the results are: 4 votes for “Fantasy,” 5 votes for “Science Fiction,” and 6 votes for “Something Else.” So it’s pretty close. The something-elses have, I think, some [...]
Clarion &SF/F Eugene Fischer | 08 Apr 2009
My Clarionmate Sarah Miller has had a lovely, elegant flash piece published at Everyday Weirdness. Take a few moments and make your day a little stranger by experiencing “The Music at Bash Bish Falls.“
Writing Eugene Fischer | 06 Apr 2009
My short story “Husbandry” has just gone up at Strange Horizons! I encourage you to read it, and hope you enjoy it. I have never been able to characterize this story to my satisfaction in terms of genre. I can’t decide if I think it is fantasy or science fiction. To that end, a poll:
Fiction &Health Eugene Fischer | 02 Apr 2009
The following is a classified communique, smuggled across the blood/brain barrier from counter-insurgency leaders in the cortex. ————— *URGENT MESSAGE FOR PARTISANS OF THE DEFENDERS OF THE DIGESTIVE TISSUES* It’s been a long battle. No one knows better than we do how entrenched and seemingly unstoppable are the rogue forces within the immune system that [...]
