Interview: Kali Wallace on “Botanical Exercises for Curious Girls”
– Tell us a bit about “Botanical Exercises for Curious Girls.” “Botanical Exercises for Curious Girls” is the story of a young girl who lives a very isolated, very restricted life, and the day she...
View ArticleInterview: Chet Williamson on “The Final Verse”
– Tell us a bit about the story. “The Final Verse” is about a slightly over-the-hill country/bluegrass singer who becomes involved in a search for the supposedly missing verse of a classic traditional...
View ArticleInterview: Don Webb on “Fine Green Dust”
– Tell us a bit about the story. It blends two ideas. On one hand it is the encounter with the young woman by the middle aged man that teaches him he is middle aged and not lover material. This is...
View ArticleInterview: Peter David on “Bronsky’s Dates with Death”
– Tell us a bit about the story. The protagonist is an elderly gentleman named Bronsky (probably Jewish, although he didn’t say for sure) who is not only utterly prepared for death, but he keeps...
View ArticleInterview: KJ Kabza on “The Ramshead Algorithm”
Tell us a bit about the story. There’s a portal to the place between worlds, and Ramshead Jones has found it. In fact, he found it over 9 years ago in the hedge maze in his own backyard, and ever since...
View ArticleInterview: Karl Bunker on “Overtaken”
– Tell us a bit about the story. A “sleeper ship” carrying a human crew in suspended animation on a centuries-long journey between stars, is overtaken by a much faster and newer ship from Earth. The...
View ArticleInterview: Chris DeVito on “Anise”
Tell us a bit about the story. If I had to categorize “Anise,” I’d label it “inner-space opera” — the internal blood and thunder of the mind (with some thud and blunder for comic relief). But the story...
View ArticleInterview: Daniel Marcus on “Bright Moment”
– Tell us a bit about the story. Arun is a scientist working on project to terraform a Jovian moon in a distant solar system. While on R and R, surfing the moon’s ammonia ocean, he catches a brief...
View ArticleInterview: Carolyn Ives Gilman on “The Ice Owl”
Tell us a bit about the story. “The Ice Owl” is about a smart, slightly alienated teenager named Thorn who has grown up traveling from planet to planet along with her charming but irresponsible mother,...
View ArticleInterview: Douglas A. Anderson on Evangeline Walton
– Tell us a little about Evangeline Walton. Evangeline Walton was born Evangeline Ensley—the “Walton” came from a family name which she used to form her penname. She was an only child, with a very...
View ArticleInterview: Naomi Kritzer on “Scrap Dragon”
-Tell us a bit about “Scrap Dragon.” Back in the spring of 2010, there was an online fundraising auction to raise money to defray the expenses of a liver transplant for a woman I know through fandom....
View ArticleInterview: Ted Kosmatka on “The Color Least Used By Nature”
*Tell us a bit about “The Color Least Used by Nature.” From start to finish, this story probably took me longer to write than anything else I’ve ever written. It took an insanely long time, in fact,...
View ArticleInterview: Felicity Shoulders on “Small Towns”
– Tell us a bit about “Small Towns.” “Small Towns” takes place in France in the wake of World War I; it’s the story of a particularly small and sheltered child growing into a young woman, and of a...
View ArticleInterview: Alexander Jablokov on “The Comfort of Strangers”
– Tell us a bit about “The Comfort of Strangers.” OK, so it’s an alien sex story. Or at least it started out that way, though it developed a bit more emotional subtext as it developed. While it seems...
View ArticleInterview: Richard Bowes on “The Queen and the Cambion”
– Tell us a bit about “The Queen and the Cambion.” TQATC is about two British legends, Queen Victoria who reigned for most of the 19th century and Merlin, said to be the son of a demon and a nun,...
View ArticleInterview: Michael Blumlein on “Twenty-Two and You”
– Tell us a bit about “Twenty-Two and You.” It’s a tale about genetic engineering and a young couple head over heels in love and faced with a Mephistophelean decision. Their genetic future (and...
View ArticleInterview: Sean McMullen on “Electrica”
‑ Tell us a bit about “Electrica.” The idea behind Electrica is that an intelligence from the geologically distant past has been preserved in amber. While experimenting with a form of electrostatic...
View ArticleInterview: Matthew Corradi on “City League”
– Tell us a bit about “City League.” “City League” is a story about memories, baseball, and being shy. The setting is a near future in which memories can be isolated and manipulated as commodities,...
View ArticleInterview: Andy Stewart on “Typhoid Jack”
– Tell us a bit about “Typhoid Jack.” In a future where society has relinquished most control to cybernetic custodians known as “Farmers,” Jack Lowe, former Chief of Peace, pursues the not-quite-legal...
View ArticleInterview: Chris Willrich on “Grand Tour”
– Tell us a bit about “Grand Tour.” It’s a slice-of-life story set on a future Earth that, while it may not be truly utopian, is peaceful and wealthy, such that it’s not at all crazy for a family to...
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