Friday, August 31, 2012

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Cthulhurotica edited by Carrie Cuinn

Thursday, August 30, 2012

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Limited Edition Honey Month by Amal El-Mohtar

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

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Jabberwocky Issue 13 August 2012

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

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Crowd Funding
Stone Telling #8

Monday, August 27, 2012

Speculative Fiction Collections 2012

Last week, for the day job, we released the collection How to Traverse Terra Incognita by Dean Francis Alfar:

If there's any book by a Filipino author that I urge you to buy, it's this (you can also read the blurbs for the book from authors and editors I admire such as Lynne M. Thomas, Ann VanderMeer, John Grant, Rachel Swirsky, etc.).

But there's also A LOT of collections that have been released or will be released this year. In many ways, 2012 is the year of speculative fiction collections. Here's some books which I want to highlight (and you might have missed):
Cracklescape by Margo Lanagan
Crackpot Palace: Stories by Jeffrey Ford
At the Edge of Waking by Holly Phillips
The Secret of Evil by Roberto Bolano 
Errantry by Elizabeth Hand
Through Splintered Walls by Kaaron Warren
The Dragon Griaule by Lucius Shepard
The Woman Who Married a Cloud by Jonathan Carroll
Moscow but Dreaming by Ekaterina Sedia
Birds and Birthdays by Christopher Barzak
Fountain of Age by Nancy Kress
The Best of Kage Baker by Kage Baker
Permeable Borders by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Technicolor and other Revelations by John Langan

Space Is Just a Starry Night by Tanith Lee

Edit: From the comments, more collections!

You Will Meet a Stranger Far from Home by Alex Jeffers
Windeye: Stories by Brian Evenson
Earth and Air by Peter Dickinson
Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck

And as impressive as this list is, I'm also hoping the following authors get their own short story collections in the near future (if they haven't yet):
  • Rachel Swirsky
  • Ken Liu
  • Genevieve Valentine
  • Lavie Tidhar
  • Theodora Goss (a new one)
  • Catherynne M.  Valente (a new one)
  • Aliette de Bodard
  • Amal El-Mohtar
  • Mary Robinette Kowal (a new one)
  • Naomi Novik

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The Apex Book of World SF 2 edited by Lavie Tidhar

I Screwed Up

This is a post reprimanding myself.

Did this post need to be public? No, as it was between myself and another party. But to some extent, I screwed up and it's not something I'm intending to hide.

Over the weekend, I lost a friend. Here's a summary of events:
  • Earlier in the week, the other party got into conflict with a mutual acquaintance on Twitter.
  • The other party posted a blog entry on the subject a few days later.
  • I commented on the blog post.
  • A conversation took place on Facebook and when it was evident that the other party could not see my point, I informed them that I would be posting a rebuttal on my blog.
What happens next is where things eventually break down.
  • The other party asks that I don't post my rebuttal.
  • I decline.
  • The other party states that they will delete their post.
  • I agree with them and state that if they will delete their post, I will not post my rebuttal.
  • The other party accuses me of bullying.
  • I tell the other party that they should retain their post and that I would post my rebuttal.
  • The other party deletes it anyway.
Now I am both against deleting of blog entries and bullying, but intentions are usually irrelevant when it comes to the consequences of your actions.

I should have backed off when they offered to delete their blog entry. Maybe I should have just posted my rebuttal instead of informing them ahead of time. I shouldn't have encouraged the deletion, even when I later told them repeatedly to retain the post.

The other party considered this tactic bullying. It didn't seem so at the time to me but maybe it was bullying. I did use the statement "If it [the blog entry] stays up, I'll post my rebuttal," which comes off as threatening.

The fact that I found the blog entry to be reprehensible (because the narrative was a one-sided account of what happened and the other party was basically congratulating themselves while demonizing others involved) was besides the point. The situation could have been resolved better.

Friday, August 24, 2012

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Future Lovecraft edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia & Paula R. Stiles

Thursday, August 23, 2012

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How to Traverse Terra Incognita by Dean Francis Alfar

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

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Genocidal Organ by Project Itoh

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

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Monday, August 20, 2012

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The Cascadia Subduction Zone August 2012

Friday, August 17, 2012

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The Traitor Queen by Trudi Canavan

Thursday, August 16, 2012

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Harry Harrison Tributes
Crackpot Palace by Jeffrey Ford