On a sad note, SciFiction is a gone thing. Of course, wherever Ellen Datlow lands next will be the new hot spot for speculative stuff. Just hope the wait isn’t too long. My selfish reason for being sad, of course, is that I cut my teeth on OMNI’s fiction* back in the 80’s. Which is […]
instead of thumbnails, which would be prettier, just some links, bullet-style, cause I’ve got no time here: Austin Statesman Reader (I think this is the one with the title I dig) NYT [1] NYT [2] Houston Chronicle Austin Chronicle, 4 parts: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4
I can only remember two–the first-first glimmerings of BIRD & FAST, then the full glossary for BIRD (okay: there were two novellas as well, but they’re gone, now, sorry). That FAST piece, I wrote it deep in the morning, after having just lied to an editor at a party that I’d finished the novel already.
Early, scary stuff here. All of it right about fifteen years old. Not sure how I ever learned to write, really. Just that I had to. Included: “The Parrot Man,” which has a scene in it I’ve still yet to stop trying to tell; “West Texas Dirt,” which got me my first-ever fiction award, and
first Texas Monthly interview second Texas Monthly interview Hub Stuff Interview Lubbock newspaper interview
