A Slightly Late Posting, or Is It Early: The Master of Time Accepted by Worldsmyths

The original call was for [f]antasy/science fiction stories, following the theme of “seasons.” (Seasons, weather, cyclical nature, ending, returning, regularity interrupted, growing things, dying things, planet sized impact, local microsystems . . . ) Well you get the idea. But what about a story then — a reprint, originally published in FANTASTIC for Summer 2002, reprinted in DARKER LOVES, etc. — about a great clock on the running of which time itself depends? And then, what if it stopped?

The book is to be called SEASONS UNCEASING, by Worldsmyths Publishing, and the story that came to mind, “The Master of Time,” about the apprentice to the Master Clockkeeper whose job is to make sure that never happens (cf., e.g., September 22 2016, et al., concerning another reprint of the story). But who has some other interests as well.

So yesterday, and not all that late really, Worldsmyths emailed its answer: Congratulations! Your story submission “The Master of Time” has been accepted into SEASONS UNCEASING: A WORLDSMYTHS ANTHOLOGY . . . Please follow the below link to access the contract and author information questionnaire. This followed in turn by instructions, some of which will be better completed at the library tomorrow (hence the “or is it early” of the headline above), plus information on the editing process to come, etc.

More of which will be here as — as does time itself — it comes to pass.