I received my shiny new copy of Interzone this weekend with my story “Saving Diego.”  It’s not my first story in print, but it’s probably the largest venue I’ve been published in so far.  I was blown away by David Gentry‘s art for my story.  A mid-eastern-looking man crouches in a windowsill before a desert cityscape.  In the distance are satellite dishes and antennas.  It’s so damn close to what I had envisioned when I wrote the story.  It makes me really happy. Also in the issue are Alaya Dawn Johnson’s …

Stewart O’Nan Paul Tremblay Last night we were entertained by two very talented authors. Paul Tremblay read from his The Little Sleep about a narcoleptic private Dick, and Stewart O’Nan read from his Songs for the Missing. Both excerpts, it was interesting to discover, were not speculative in any way that I could see, but the audience did not seem to mind one bit (note the “fantastic” in Fantastic Fiction) which, as one blogger aptly noted this morning, is what Alice Turner meant when, in creating the series, she attempted …

According to a recent news article, the cost of Obama’s health care plan, which hopes to bring health care to all Americans, is something on the order of $1.5 trillion over ten years.  And while that may seem like an exorbitant amount, remember that our six years in Iraq has already cost us more than $600 billion.  And the war has killed 4200 Americans, wounded 30,000, and has killed at least 180,000 Iraqis, and some estimates put that number much, much higher.  Let’s also not forget that we just spent …

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present: Stewart O’Nan, author of novels such as A Prayer for the Dying, Snow Angels, The Night Country, and two nonfiction books, The Circus Fire and Faithful : Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season (with Stephen King). His novel, Songs for the Missing and his screenplay “Poe” have just been published & Paul Tremblay, author of the collection Compositions for the Young and Old and the hard-boiled/dark fantasy novella City Pier: Above and Below. He’s also …

Pam McNew’s poem, “No Word for Goodbye,” published in Sybil’s Garage No. 5, has been nominated for a Rhysling Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association.  Winners will be announed at ReaderCon. Congratulations Pam!