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 [...]
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 [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 30 May 2009
This was my first SF convention, and was something of a test to see if I could enjoy conventions of any kind. Last summer, while I was in San Diego for Clarion, I went to ComiCon, which managed to awaken an inner agoraphobe the existence of which I had not previously suspected. But a week [...]
Uncategorized Eugene Fischer | 14 Mar 2009
A personal journal entry from several months ago begins with a quotation by Primo Levi, which I encountered in an essay by Ursula LeGuin. “It is the duty of the righteous man to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.” I wrote several paragraphs [...]
