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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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:
Health &Writing Eugene Fischer | 01 Apr 2009
Yesterday I had a tickle in my throat that metamorphosed in the night into something more akin to a forest fire. And I’m on day 2 of a weird, intermittent nose bleed. And as I mentioned a little while back, I’ve lately been suffering from an increase in the severity of my Crohn’s symptoms. But [...]
