m. c. de marco

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Via twitter: Razib at Gene Expression digresses from gene expression to the question of religion and fantasy. He manages to dig up more Jewish fantasy writers than Michael Weingrad did for his article in the Jewish Review of Books, Why There Is No Jewish Narnia:

To put it crudely, if Christianity is a fantasy religion, then Judaism is a science fiction religion.

Via twitter: nominations for the Nebula Awards are up at sfwa.org. I think the only thing I’ve read this year is Michael Burstein’s “I Remember the Future,” but several of the shorter works are linked so I can catch up.

Locus Online posts a brief obituary for Kage Baker, who died of cancer yesterday.

My shortest story yet was published today at Thaumatrope, an sf/f/h twitter fiction magazine. I dimly recall submitting it, apparently in response to a call for steampunk and/or holiday stories, but I figured Bad Elf had killed little Timmy and buried his body in the slush pile.

To submit your own 140 characters of immortal speculative prose, all you need is a twitter account.

A little horror story of mine will be appearing when least expected. More details will follow as they become available.

Via twitter: Kim Stanley Robinson has an article in New Scientist about Virginia Woolf, Olaf Stapledon, the Booker Prize, the current golden age of British science fiction, and stories of now. New Scientist also has eight flash stories up under the fiction of now, and a flash contest: 350 words or less, due October 15th.