m. c. de marco

The 12 Days of Cthulhumas are in full swing at Tor.com. There’s other Cthulhu month content as well, including short stories by Neil Gaiman, among others.

Here’s a lovely flash fiction story by Erica Hildebrand, a fellow Odyssey graduate: Product Safety.

Via a mailing list: last month at Slate, Josh Levin spent a week contemplating the end of America. The high point of the week was this Choose Your Own Apocalypse grid featuring 144 apocalyptic and semi-apocalyptic endings. Readers’ top five choices started from Loose Nukes and went down from there.

Purple Pawn catalogs the board games and RPGs of Cthulhu.

Via whump.com: Lois McMaster Bujold spoke about genre in her guest of honor speech at the World Science Fiction Convention earlier this month. Here are her one-word genre definitions:

In fact, if romances are fantasies of love, and mysteries are fantasies of justice, I would now describe much SF as fantasies of political agency.

Via SFScope: Jay Lake will be judging Apex’s Annual Halloween Contest. The word limit is 1,000 words, and submissions (by email) are already open. The theme is Election Horror.

Some thoughts on zombies and genre continue here from Zombies Ain’t So Bad. When last we left our shambling friends, they were a species of smallpox in the larger subgenre of apocalyptic fiction.