As a result of some sf writer infighting you need to neither know nor care about (though if you have a desperate urge to find out, see here and here), today has been given the extraordinarily irritating title of “International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day”. The good thing about this is that it means many sf writers (and other sf types) have been posting samples of their work online for free, gratis. There are roundups here and here; my picks:
- “Missile Gap by Charles Stross
- “Palimpset” by Catherynne M. Valente
- Various by David Langford, but especially “comp.basilisk FAQ“
- A “lost Interzone column” by John Clute, featuring reviews of books by M. Rickert, Philip Reeve, and Robert Charles Wilson
- The Wilson book Clute reviews is Julian, which Jed Hartman recently e-textified
- “Manifest Destiny” by David Schwarz [pdf]
- An extract from The Child Reader and the Reading Child by Farah Mendlesohn
- “Putting the pieces back together again: making sense of Damon Knight’s Humpty Dumpty” by Graham Sleight
In keeping with the spirit of the day, I’m going to put up a review I wrote for NYRSF. For bonus marks, see if you can spot my tics.
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