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| Friday, November 4th, 2005 | | 1:23 pm |
"Toril and Cort" excerpt
From Barbara Davies' sword-and-sorcery-flavored tale, "Toril and Cort", available in F/SF, Vol. 1They reached the treasury roof without too much difficulty - if you discounted the fact that Cort was terrified of heights. Toril rolled her eyes and wondered if The Trickster was influencing events. This was just the kind of joke the subversive god would enjoy. "Why don't you climb the rope, do the breaking and entering, then come down and open the front door for me?" asked Cort brightly. "Freya's tits! I don't have time for this." Before the little picklock could react, Toril had hoisted him over her shoulder and swarmed up the rope. She dumped him unceremoniously on the roof. "You're not the usual type of girl, are you?" he muttered when he had got his breath back. Toril recoiled the rope and considered their next move. According to the plans, there should be a trapdoor. Ah! "Depends what you mean by 'usual'." "Polite, gentle, good at housework --" She grabbed his collar with one hand. "Stop talking, get moving. That's your first job." She pointed to the padlock on the trapdoor. "All right, all right!" He set to work. | | Wednesday, October 12th, 2005 | | 3:00 pm |
Featured Author: Barbara Davies
Our next featured author is Barbara Davies. Her story in F/SF, Vol. I is the high fantasy tale "Toril and Cort." Watch for an excerpt to be posted shortly! Here, for now, is Davies' bio: Barbara Davies lives in the English Cotswolds and reviews fantasy fiction for Starburst. Her website can be found at: http://www.barbardavies.co.ukHer first short story was published in 1994. Since then her fiction has appeared in more than 30 magazines, ezines, chapbooks, and anthologies, including Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, F/SF Vol. 1, Neo-opsis, Khimairal Ink, Crossings, Ideomancer Unbound, nanobison, Neometropolis, and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. She also has stories upcoming in: Here & Now, Farthing, Midnight Street, and comic fantasy anthology Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy. | | Sunday, September 18th, 2005 | | 10:13 am |
M. T. Reiten
The following is an excerpt from featured author M. T. Reiten's story in F/SF, "The Thinking Part Is Me." See directly below for Reiten's bio. Our next featured author will be Barbara Davies. ------- "Mark, I'm warning you. Don’t take my head off!" Flynn observed the plastic and metal tele-awareness unit that contained Mark's thought pattern. Flynn found himself stuck disembodied on the inside—the wrong side—of the ship's aft engineering controls. Mark should have been two sections down inspecting the main drive plates, but instead he stood in the access tunnel, Teflon white and brushed titanium, arms fully extended and hands gripping the cranial housing on Flynn's unoccupied tele-awareness unit. The large main optics gave both disc-shaped heads a surprised look. With the agonizing precision of an archbishop at mass, Mark lifted the sensor-studded head from the torso that Flynn had occupied only moments before. The monitor cameras in the access tunnel fed Flynn's awareness, giving him the instant horror of watching his own decapitation. "Put my head back on!" Mark tucked the detached head under his arm like a football. "No. You'll just try to stop me." He stomped out the entry hatch in his hard metal body, heading forward. | | Monday, September 12th, 2005 | | 12:04 pm |
M.T. Reiten bio
Since having "The Thinking Part is Me" (his second-ever acceptance) picked up for F/SF, M.T. Reiten deployed to Afghanistan and his publishing career picked up. While in Central Asia, he won a Phobos Award and was selected a Writers of the Future winner. His story "An Oaken Memory" was published in PanGaia Magazine Nov03/Feb 04. He's excited to have stories coming out in International House of Bubbas from Yard Dog Press and Fantastical Visions IV early next year. Back in the states and a civilian again, he's not so excited about his return to graduate studies in electrical engineering ("Lasers") at Oklahoma State University, since academic advisors tend to frown on too much fiction in PhD dissertations. ---- Check back tomorrow for more on Reiten and an excerpt from his F/SF tale. | | Sunday, September 11th, 2005 | | 2:44 pm |
| | Monday, September 5th, 2005 | | 10:28 am |
F/SF: new home and name
Future volumes of the F/SF series will be switching to Rage Machine Books. G.W. Thomas and I are looking into changing the name of the series for its Rage Machine incarnation. Feel free to e-mail suggestions to cyberbain at hotmail dot com. This isn't a contest, so the only prize will be recognition of the fact that you came up with the name. | | Monday, August 29th, 2005 | | 11:59 am |
New C.A. Gardner poem
F/SF Vol. I contributor C.A. Gardner reports she has a poem, "Bone," in the new issue of Poe Little Thing--No. 3, Summer 2005, published by Naked Snake Press. While it is difficult to keep up with all his appearances in the world of print, we can confirm Bruce Boston also has work in that issue... | | Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005 | | 10:18 am |
| | Wednesday, August 10th, 2005 | | 7:08 pm |
Rewriting the Future
So now Cyber-Pulp has cancelled all forthcoming anthologies. I'll leave the commentary to others. It will surely be plentiful. I'll focus instead on my own intentions and the fact that I'll do my damndest to follow through on my obligations and all projects I've put into motion. Forbidden Texts and Dark Highways contributors were recently updated on the status of those projects. Now, I also plan to look for a new publisher (and possibly new format, new name, etc.) for the F/SF series. I'll be keeping contributors informed. Volume I remains available through Cyber-Pulp for the time being. Contributors: I'll be sending this info out as an e-mail to contributors soon, but I'll also post it here. Regarding F/SF II: My hope is that everyone sticks with this project and believes in it as I do. Given the current state of affairs, however, I can understand if individual contributors might want to bow out. Please send me an e-mail should you choose to do so. Please note that it's been my intention to have the series be very open to reprints, so if you'd like to keep the story with me but also try sending it other places, feel free, just keep me informed. Regarding Monstrous and ModernMages,AncientMagic: My plan is to roll stories previously accepted for these projects into what is currently known as the F/SF series. Other than that, everything stated above concerning F/SF II goes here as well. More info, as it comes, will be posted both here and at The F/SF Anthology Blog. In the interest of the contributors, the people who make the stories possible, this blog will also continue posting excerpts from Vol. I as well as updates on contributor news. | | Saturday, August 6th, 2005 | | 5:32 pm |
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror honorable mentions
Congrtulations to the several F/SF, Vol I contributors who received honorable mentions in the just released Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XVIII. They include (w/ F/SF I story or poem title in parenthesis): Charles Gramlich - "Thief of Eyes" in The Parasitorium [Your editor has a story, "That Enveloping Darkness," in the same collection.] ("I Can Spend You") Kevin Anderson - "Ink Spot" in Lone Star Stories ("The Calling") Bruce Boston - 8 honorable mentions total - "The Changing of the Flesh" in Star*Line; "Crow People" and "Rat People" in Feralfiction I; "Curse of the Siren's Suitors" in Weird Tales; and "The Death of Statues," "Like a Bunch of Animals Pawing," and "Noir Slash" in Dreams and Nightmares; "In the Key of Shadow" in Flesh and Blood. ("The Wordmonger's Tale") Leah Bobet - "Sonnets Made of Wood" in Realms of Fantasy ("Playing the Dozens") ******* Many contributors to F/SF II were also honored. More information on that volume forthcoming.... | | Monday, August 1st, 2005 | | 8:15 am |
Dorr excerpt
Here, as promised, is an excerpt from James S. Dorr's "The Rose" his entry in F/SF, Vol. I, a tale from his Tombs series. --- There was no moon this night, nor on the next when, nearer and under a clearer sky, we recognized what it was we were approaching: The brightly lit towers and spires of the New City! We spent little time on sleep, traveling even by day, trusting to our engine's roof to protect from the sun's worst rays. As even inside the heat grew as an oven's heat, even with all our side-hatches open to catch such breeze as we could. Thus we continued, the moon now waxing first to a sliver, then to a half-coin, before we saw, this side of the river, the place of even more legends than the purple and orange and scarlet and yellow that winked before us, distorted by heat-winds, the shimmering lights from arabesque pinnacles — these at times outshining even the moon. But this new thing I spotted first, not knowing yet what I saw. "Look," I called, just as I had once at our caravan-serai called for the Master. "These are new lights I see, lower and nearer. Not nearly so bright. And colored as green as the streaks of your day-clothes." It was the white-headed one who answered. "It is the Tombs," she said. I did not believe this. Rather, I did, yet still I did not. The Tombs were a myth, I had always thought — a tale of those who traveled from the north, possibly told to them by others, a no-place where corpses were brought from the whole world, those wealthy enough to afford the journey. But now I had seen it, mutely glowing, the green gleam of grave-lights reflected in my own eyes. | | Tuesday, July 26th, 2005 | | 3:56 pm |
New Kewin story
I promise the Dorr excerpt is quickly forthcoming, but the F/SF contributor news just keeps rolling in. Check out Simon Kewin's latest story at Abyss and Apex. His F/SF, Vol. I contribution is the wonderful short-short "Algorhythyms". | | Monday, July 25th, 2005 | | 3:18 pm |
Speaking of Mr. Dorr...
Speaking of James S. Dorr, one short thing before we get on with the excerpt from his story from F/SF, Vol. I. Both your editor here ( David Bain) and Mr. Dorr have stories in the just-released Kopfhalter Magazine #2. Mine is called "The Trunk", Dorr's is called "And I Will Harden Pharaoh’s Heart". It is a groovy magazine. Slick cover. Not for the weak. Other content by Mike Arnzen, Ken Goldman, Aurelio Rico Lopez III. You will enjoy. | | Wednesday, July 20th, 2005 | | 12:21 pm |
Featured F/SF author: James S. Dorr
Our second featured author is James S. Dorr. (See below for our first, Charles Gramlich.) Below is the latest up-to-date bio on Mr. Dorr. Check back in a few days when we'll post an excerpt from Dorr's F/SF Vol. I entry "The Rose", a tale from his "Tombs" series. James Dorr's new book, DARKER LOVES: TALES OF MYSTERY AND REGRET, is due in Fall 2005 from Dark Regions Press (www.darkregions.com) as a companion to his current collection, STRANGE MISTRESSES: TALES OF WONDER AND ROMANCE (Dark Regions, 2001), while other work has appeared in such venues as ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE, NEW MYSTERY, FANTASTIC STORIES, SHORT STORY DIGEST, SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW, TERMINAL FRIGHT, LENOX AVENUE, GOTHIC.NET, CHI-ZINE, MARSDUST, SHADOWS OF SATURN, ENIGMATIC TALES (UK), FAERIES (France), REDSINE (Australia), and numerous anthologies. Dorr is an active member of SFWA and HWA, an Anthony (mystery) and Darrell (fiction set in the US Mid-South) finalist, winner of Best of the Web 1998, a Pushcart Prize nominee, keeper of a large, hyperactive gray and black cat named Wednesday (after Wednesday Addams of THE ADDAMS FAMILY and whose favorite toy is a plastic fake spider), a sometime semi- professional musician, and has had work listed in THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR eleven of the past thirteen years. | | Sunday, July 17th, 2005 | | 4:36 pm |
F/SF in the U.K.!
The UK Amazon is now listing F/SF#1 here: <http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/1897084048/qid=1121206450/sr=1-> They are charging £17.99 (though they list some used copies at £10.01) and say it is 'usually dispatched within 1 to 2 weeks'. | | Sunday, July 10th, 2005 | | 2:47 pm |
F/SF recv'd!
Okay, I've officially received a shipment of F/SF, Vol. I. The book is a thing of beauty, even if the editor does say so himself! It's also being ordered by my local library and we're going to be making a fairly big deal of it. More info on that later! | | Tuesday, July 5th, 2005 | | 10:36 pm |
B&N responds
Someone's working holidays at B&N. They responded to a contributor's query about F/SF Vol I's availability on their site: Thank you for your e-mail. Unfortunately, we do not have this book available for sale at this time on our site. However, we expect our site to be updated shortly showing the availability of the book. We apologize for the confusion. | | Monday, July 4th, 2005 | | 5:49 pm |
| | Sunday, July 3rd, 2005 | | 10:13 am |
F/SF Availability Weirdness
The weirdness continues. F/SF is now listed at Barnes & Nobles, but only as a used or out-of-print item. Meanwhile, there are apparently used copies available via Amazon.com for higher than Amazon's price. | | Monday, June 27th, 2005 | | 8:20 am |
F/SF Vol. I now at Amazon!
F/SF, Volume I is now available via Amazon.com! As of this writing, they don't have the cover art up and the book is also listed as not yet available. Hopefully the listing will be corrected soon, as the book does indeed have a cover and is indeed available. The good news is, even as a pre-order, you can save about five bucks off the cover price by ordering through Amazon. |
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