Lynda E. Rucker's Blog, page 18
December 3, 2012
other people’s words: 3
For today, something old and something new.
Something old: from the archives of the sadly departed site Infinity Plus, an excerpt from the Conrad Williams novel London Revenant, one of my favorite books from the last few years. At the World Horror Convention in 2010 in Brighton, I was chatting with a couple of guys about the fiction we liked and the conversation took that great passionate turn it does when you realize you have really similar tastes and so there we were, the three of us, raving...
November 28, 2012
news: Nightmare Magazine sale
I’m very pleased to report that I’ve sold my story “The House on Cobb Street” to the John Joseph Adams-editedNightmare Magazine, a terrific new showcase for horror fiction that debuted this autumn. If the likes of Laird Barron, Ramsey Campbell, and Sarah Langan sound good to you, check out their October and November issues which can be purchased in e-reading formats or read online.
November 26, 2012
other people’s words: 2
An ongoing effort, each Monday, to point you to stuff old and new to read around the web. Mostly I’m focusing on highlighting sf/f/h fiction online, but I reserve the right to mix it up at anytime!
Today I’m linking to a back issue of Clarkesworld and a story by Nnedi Okorafor that I find interesting, in part, because it’s uniquely suited for the web: From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7 is the report of a field worker on an alien planet that uses audio files and mouse-over text with the names of...
November 23, 2012
is horror troubled?
Well, of course it is. Horror is all about the forbidden. It’s the decadent, the death-loving, the unspeakable, the taboo. It’s dark desires and things best left alone (but sometimes irresistible). It’s sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Horror’s the bad kids in the back of the class, the troublemakers, the ones smoking and loitering and hanging out in the wrong places at the wrong times with the wrong people.
Unfortunately, if we take this troubled schoolkid metaphor a little further, it must be...
November 19, 2012
other people’s words: 1
I wasn’t able to get the blog post written that I wanted to write last week (it’s still coming!), but here’s something else I’ve been wanting to do. There is so much good stuff to read (and listen to, and watch) online, and I don’t do enough of it and I bet you don’t either. So I’ve been thinking for a while of doing a weekly thing where each Monday I point you to one or two or more things I ran across online over the previous week that particularly impressed me. This also helps to keep my bl...
November 8, 2012
“Red at the End of the World” in Daily Science Fiction
My story “Red at the End of the World” is now available to read for free online at Daily Science Fiction.
Coming next week: real, actual content that’s not all about me, me, me.
October 29, 2012
subscribe to Daily SF
If you subscribe (free!) to Daily Science Fiction, you will not only receive my story “Red at the End of the World” in your mailbox for a Halloween treat this October 31. You’ll get a short story every weekday!
And if you don’t want to subscribe (maybe, like me, your email box is already ripe for an episode of Hoarders: The Virtual Edition and you’re trying not to sign up for anything else in the online equivalent of swearing you won’t buy any more lots of Beanie babies on eBay), you can read...
October 25, 2012
Interview at F&SF
You can read an interview with me at the F&SF site. I talk about my story in this month’s issue of F&SF, “Where the Summer Dwells,” as well as what I write in general, what I’m working on, etc.
October 19, 2012
“The Last Reel” at Pseudopod
My short story “The Last Reel,” originally published in Supernatural Tales #10(2006) and reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #18, is live at Pseudopod, read by Mark E. Phair. Enjoy!
October 17, 2012
Octocon 2012
And just two weeks after a lovely Fantasycon weekend comes Octocon, the national science fiction convention of Ireland! Now giant conventions are not my thing at all — I stopped in at DragonCon a couple of years ago to meet some friends for dinner and drinks and while that part of it was delightful, it was pretty much the definition of everything that does not appeal to me in a con. But Octocon is small even by my small-con standards. I suppose such a small con, one with many participants who...
