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08/13/09
07/08/09
The stories behind the objects are true, but for some mythological reason, the buyers must be told the story is false in order for the rightful owners of the objects to be found.
07/08/09
I would guess the blue bottle.
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06/02/09
i also still order vinyl, cd's, and DVD's.
i enjoy owning physical things not digital stuff like i can go out and re-sell what a first edition PDF !!!
i do buy and sell things on the side.
06/02/09
This online stuff is going to mean the end of the "midlist" authors -- you're going to have a herd of tiny splintered writers and a few giant successes, but nothing inbetween. And the midlist is where the best work often happens.
The past, the history of every field is going to disappear too -- it'll just be The New Thing, which means you're going to see old ideas redone badly b/c writers and readers won't know. Cliches ahoy.
06/02/09
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06/02/09
Whereas I can read forever and a day, even if I'm also watching TV or listening to music. The Pre-Golden-Age novels mentioned on io9 have been great; I click over to Gutenberg and snarf a novel down on my laptop. (I read too quickly for the e-ink of Kindle et al. -- the refresh rate SUCKS on those)
I'm reading a lot more short stories/novellas now that they're online, though. Free is good for me, though not for the authors and editors.
Books still rule, esp. for the midlist stuff, which is where I find much of the best work. And used bookstores rule the most of all.
01/19/09
I must say, however, your story needs an editor.
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01/18/09
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01/18/09
PKD humor: All I really need to know I learned from Philip K. Dick.
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01/06/09
In fact, if you go to their website, and clink on the "contact us" link, you'll find something called "writer's guidelines" in which they tell you exactly how to submit things to them.
It took me approximately 8 seconds, which is probably slightly longer than it took you to type that comment.
01/06/09
@Pope, when you say 'go to their website', what exactly are you talking about? Which one of these anthologies? Eclipse? FastForward? Galactic Empires? Solaris? I see no 'writers guidelines' on any of those. Solaris even explicitly states that it doesn't accept anything that's not from a literary agent. I guess your definition of '8 seconds' is a bit different than mine...
01/07/09
If you're really a young author trying to "break in", then the only thing I can tell you from my author friends is that if you can't find a place to submit, you really aren't looking hard enough.
If you begin your search with the best of the best, or with book-form anthologies produced by big publishing houses, you will probably always be shit out of luck unless you're the next Samuel Delaney and you're fabulous.
01/07/09
Anthologies tend to be open or invitation only. Anyone can submit to Eclipse, for example -- you just have to keep an eye out for the reading period. There are several SF writer's market sites that let you know who's open and for how long.
01/07/09
And I'm not looking to break in, I'm just a reader who's wondering if the changing dynamics are going to ultimately be detrimental to diversity.
01/07/09
Look at it this way: there are 2 kinds of anthology. There's the anthology released as novel, which is probably by commission, and if it's submission only it's best of the best. This is released by a major house for profit and is designed to sell. This is a BOOK.
Then, there's the magazine anthology. This is the kind of thing that comes out bi-monthly, or quarterly, and is submitted to by blind submission, and is open to everyone. Let's call this a magazine anthology.
What Charlie is describing in the shift in F&SF is the creation of a new magazine anthology. Less stories, more fiction, higher quality, less issues.
So quit whining. And next time, read what I write before you argue the same point over and over, wouldja?
01/06/09
And now for some short story SF publishing rumors (okay, not quite as juicy as "who's the last cylon"): Night Shade Books will be taking over the very cool 'zine Electric Velocipede.
[www.electricvelocipede.com]
Same editor, same good quality. Hopefully, Jeremy Lassen and the gang will be able to champion this excellent breeding pool of new short SpecFic talent. No I don't work for NSB, just a big fan who would like to see books in print as opposed to on a screen device controlled by some Corporation.
01/06/09
[www.nightshadebooks.com]
01/06/09
Dumb of me, sorry. Just trying to drum up interest for some good writing.
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01/06/09
Daryl Gregory's story is so worth reading for any comic book fan, it's all like: what if you grew up in Latveria with Dr. Doom. Really, check it out, sooo cool. Just sorry the Ted Chiang piece didn't make it, or Beagle's "The Rabbi's Hobby". Oh heck, please check out a copy of Eclipse 2, the whole thing is really darn good.
That's right I said DARN.
01/06/09