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An Interview With Charles Stross

Submitted by melvin on Sun, 07/08/2007 - 18:47

"I sold my first short story in 1987, to Interzone. From 1987 to 1995 I think I probably sold upwards of a hundred thousand words of short fiction. However, I only broke the surface in the US with my first sale to Asimov's in 2001. Which is why everybody seems to think I'm a new writer."

Notes On A Speculative Poetry

Submitted by melvin on Sun, 07/08/2007 - 18:23

Memories of the past are about as reliable as memories of the future....

Why Orwell Doesn't Matter

Submitted by melvin on Sun, 07/08/2007 - 11:55

George Orwell had the good fortune -- or misfortune, depending on your perspective -- of being an honest man in an exceptionally dishonest time. The world has always been filled with liars, of course...

Dormant Beasts

Submitted by melvin on Sun, 07/08/2007 - 11:51

The Dormant Beast is a near-future story, which is to say, harsh, grubby, and convoluted. Bilal gives us the now-mandatory Blade Runner anticipations of days to come, the mise-en-scene a politically dystopian automobile graveyard draped with wiring and rife with multinational neon, omnipresent logos, and endless flickering security cameras and computer screens....

War In The Age Of Intelligent Machines

Submitted by melvin on Sun, 07/08/2007 - 07:02

Sprawl of automata, bereft of tongue...

In The Jardin Des Plantes

Submitted by melvin on Sun, 07/08/2007 - 07:00

Angels pull back the curtains round a bed / To look down on the faces of the dead...

A Few Moments To Breathe

Submitted by melvin on Sun, 07/08/2007 - 06:51

We took a few minutes to breathe, but afterwards / Were made the darling of the tribes. I judged / Our work sufficiently done in Wadi Ais...

What are the payment terms?

Submitted by escoles on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 07:16

Two copies of the anthology and a one-year membership to R-SPEC.