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Nick Mamatas's Blog
January 13, 2020
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February 19, 2019
December 5, 2018
Eligibility Post, 2018
Hey sleepyheads, here's what I got up to this year, publishing wise:
Short fiction (reverse chronological order):
“Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring.” Transmissions from Punktown, ed. Brian M. Sammons, Dark Regions Press, December 2018. (SF/horror)
“The Twin Dragons of Sentimentality and Didacticism.” Mechanical Animals, eds. Selena Chambers and Jason Heller, Hex Publishing, November 2018. (SF)
“The One Who Walks with a Limp.” Vancouver Noir, ed. Sam Wiebe, Akashic Books, November 2018. (crime)
“The Landline.” CuriousFictions.com, October 2018.
https://curiousfictions.com/…/1049-nick-mamatas-the-landline (crime)
"Chapter 9" of the Serial Box serial novelette EXQUISITE CORPSE, October 2018. (horror/SF)
“Under the Casket, A Beach!”, Silent Garden #1, October 2018. (ghost story)
“The Glottal Stop.” The People’s Republic of Everything, Tachyon Publications, August 2018. (near-future SF/thriller)
"The Transcendental Number" in Broken River Review #1, ed. J David Osborne (crime, SF element)
“Three Scores.” Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder, eds, Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto, Black Balloon Publishing, June 2018. (crime)
“The Girl Who Loved Cthulhu.” The Cackle of Cthulhu, ed. Alex Shvartsman, Baen Books, January 2018. (horror, comical)
“A Night Out at a Nice Place.” Apex Online, January 2018.
https://www.apex-magazine.com/a-night-out-at-a-nice-place/
(SF)
I published a short fiction collection this year:
The People's Republic of Everything, Tachyon Publications, August 2018.
Three pieces of non-fiction appeared this year:
Harlan Ellison, Rest in Anger for Legacy.com
A review of The Book of Greek & Roman Folktales, Legends & Myths, in Marvels & Tales (academic journal)
Only One Way to Write the End of the Individual: Jesus F. Gonzalez's The Corporation in Clickers Forever, February 2018, ed. Brian Keene.
One media presentation:
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed and Anarchism, presented at The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, Stichting Perdu, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2018.
Here is a list of the books I edited at my day job that came out this year:
Haikasoru (all SF):
Legend of the Galactic Heroes 6: Flight, by Yoshiki Tanaka
Sisyphean, by Dempow Torishima
The Thousand Year Beach, by TOBI Hirotaka
Legend of the Galactic Heroes 7: Tempest by Yoshiki Tanaka
Legend of the Galactic Heroes 8: Desolation by Yoshiki Tanaka
VIZ Media:
King of Strong Style 1980-2014 by Shinsuke Nakamura (non-fiction, sports biography)
Nier:Automata: Long Story Short by Jun Eishima and Yoko Taro (videogame tie-in novel)
Comics/manga:
English adaptation of "Frankenstein" in Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection.
Some of this may be or make me eligible for awards, so we'll see what doesn't happen.
Short fiction (reverse chronological order):
“Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring.” Transmissions from Punktown, ed. Brian M. Sammons, Dark Regions Press, December 2018. (SF/horror)
“The Twin Dragons of Sentimentality and Didacticism.” Mechanical Animals, eds. Selena Chambers and Jason Heller, Hex Publishing, November 2018. (SF)
“The One Who Walks with a Limp.” Vancouver Noir, ed. Sam Wiebe, Akashic Books, November 2018. (crime)
“The Landline.” CuriousFictions.com, October 2018.
https://curiousfictions.com/…/1049-nick-mamatas-the-landline (crime)
"Chapter 9" of the Serial Box serial novelette EXQUISITE CORPSE, October 2018. (horror/SF)
“Under the Casket, A Beach!”, Silent Garden #1, October 2018. (ghost story)
“The Glottal Stop.” The People’s Republic of Everything, Tachyon Publications, August 2018. (near-future SF/thriller)
"The Transcendental Number" in Broken River Review #1, ed. J David Osborne (crime, SF element)
“Three Scores.” Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder, eds, Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto, Black Balloon Publishing, June 2018. (crime)
“The Girl Who Loved Cthulhu.” The Cackle of Cthulhu, ed. Alex Shvartsman, Baen Books, January 2018. (horror, comical)
“A Night Out at a Nice Place.” Apex Online, January 2018.
https://www.apex-magazine.com/a-night-out-at-a-nice-place/
(SF)
I published a short fiction collection this year:
The People's Republic of Everything, Tachyon Publications, August 2018.
Three pieces of non-fiction appeared this year:
Harlan Ellison, Rest in Anger for Legacy.com
A review of The Book of Greek & Roman Folktales, Legends & Myths, in Marvels & Tales (academic journal)
Only One Way to Write the End of the Individual: Jesus F. Gonzalez's The Corporation in Clickers Forever, February 2018, ed. Brian Keene.
One media presentation:
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed and Anarchism, presented at The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, Stichting Perdu, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2018.
Here is a list of the books I edited at my day job that came out this year:
Haikasoru (all SF):
Legend of the Galactic Heroes 6: Flight, by Yoshiki Tanaka
Sisyphean, by Dempow Torishima
The Thousand Year Beach, by TOBI Hirotaka
Legend of the Galactic Heroes 7: Tempest by Yoshiki Tanaka
Legend of the Galactic Heroes 8: Desolation by Yoshiki Tanaka
VIZ Media:
King of Strong Style 1980-2014 by Shinsuke Nakamura (non-fiction, sports biography)
Nier:Automata: Long Story Short by Jun Eishima and Yoko Taro (videogame tie-in novel)
Comics/manga:
English adaptation of "Frankenstein" in Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection.
Some of this may be or make me eligible for awards, so we'll see what doesn't happen.
November 8, 2018
Kindle Daily Deal
Hello ancient social media-ers.
The People's Republic of Everything is a Kindle Daily Deal, for today. Two bucks, cheap! It's already hit #1 in five unimportant microcategories, so that's fun.
The People's Republic of Everything is a Kindle Daily Deal, for today. Two bucks, cheap! It's already hit #1 in five unimportant microcategories, so that's fun.
September 6, 2018
Anarchist StoryBundle is Live!
Not escapism, escape PLANS! The Anarchist storybundle, including the first ebook releases ever of Dennis Danvers's The Watch and Lisa Goldstein's The Dream Years is now live. Oh, and my early anthology The Urban Bizarre is also in ebook for the first time!
Thirteen books.
Fifteen bucks.
Some proceeds to the Prisoner Literature Project and Books Through Bars.
Check it out.
https://storybundle.com/anarchist
Thirteen books.
Fifteen bucks.
Some proceeds to the Prisoner Literature Project and Books Through Bars.
Check it out.
https://storybundle.com/anarchist
August 29, 2018
The People's Republic of Everything is OUT!
Really! My collection is shipping now! See? And it got a starred review from Booklist! An extremely positive review from Publishers Weekly! And one from Lightspeed Magazine! And one from Vol1 Brooklyn!
It's not like I can blog anymore! (Reasons, reasons...) so if you want me content, the book really is it!
It's not like I can blog anymore! (Reasons, reasons...) so if you want me content, the book really is it!
March 17, 2018
March 16, 2018
Greetings, three people who still read Livejournal!
My next fiction collection, which will include the preferred text of Under My Roof, is called The People's Republic of Everything and is up for pre-order now!
Check out the cover!
And the table of contents:
Walking with a Ghost
Lab Rat
Arbeitskraft
North Shore Friday
The Great Armored Train
Tom Silex, Spirit-Smasher
Slice of Life
The People’s Republic of Everywhere and Everything
The Glottal Stop (original to this volume)
The Phylactery
A Howling Dog (first time in print)
The Spook School
We Never Sleep
Dreamer of the Day
Under My Roof (author's preferred text)
You can pre-order at the link above or on Amazon. Other e-tailers to follow!
Check out the cover!
And the table of contents:
Walking with a Ghost
Lab Rat
Arbeitskraft
North Shore Friday
The Great Armored Train
Tom Silex, Spirit-Smasher
Slice of Life
The People’s Republic of Everywhere and Everything
The Glottal Stop (original to this volume)
The Phylactery
A Howling Dog (first time in print)
The Spook School
We Never Sleep
Dreamer of the Day
Under My Roof (author's preferred text)
You can pre-order at the link above or on Amazon. Other e-tailers to follow!
February 5, 2018
Hugo Award Post
I don't normally write up eligibility posts for my own work, but I do have a day job that makes me, and the work I produce there, eligible, for the Hugo Awards. Here's my output from 2017; if you liked it, please consider me for Best Long Form Editor:
Orbital Cloud and A Small Charred Face, plus the two Legend of the Galactic Heroes titles also qualify for Best Novel (so do Juni Taisen and the tie-in work, but I think the Haikasoru four are more Hugo-friendly), and LOGH also qualifies for Best Series.
Manga in Theory and Practice would make a best Related Work.
Please check out the books when considering your ballot!
Orbital Cloud and A Small Charred Face, plus the two Legend of the Galactic Heroes titles also qualify for Best Novel (so do Juni Taisen and the tie-in work, but I think the Haikasoru four are more Hugo-friendly), and LOGH also qualifies for Best Series.
Manga in Theory and Practice would make a best Related Work.
Please check out the books when considering your ballot!
January 21, 2018
The Last Weekend
My zombie novel The Last Weekend has been bookbubbed. It's $1.99 (cheap!)
Kindle: http://amzn.to/2DpqPX7
Kobo: http://bit.ly/2DoGA0r
NOOK: http://bit.ly/2DACFRp
Google: http://bit.ly/2F1PFg3
Tell your friends, tell your mama.
Kindle: http://amzn.to/2DpqPX7
Kobo: http://bit.ly/2DoGA0r
NOOK: http://bit.ly/2DACFRp
Google: http://bit.ly/2F1PFg3
Tell your friends, tell your mama.
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