Dancing in the Vacuum
A new edition of my science fiction short story collection, SINGULARITIES, is coming out next week, and I'm pleased with that. First off, I love the new cover for it, which is retro-futuristic fab...
SINGULARITIES
I think it captures the spirit of the collection. I can't help but be a little wistful about it, as this collection contains 11 heavily-rejected short stories of mine from a time when I tried very hard to get short stories picked up somewhere, anywhere, and failed.
Now, one could look at the collection as a bunch of loser stories, since they never found their proper homes back in the day ("the day" being around 2005-2015, if memory serves).
But I think the stories are all really good (and I'm still my toughest critic of my own work), so I guess we'll see what people think, assuming anyone reads them. I'm proud of the stories in this collection, and as a time capsule of where I was at the time I wrote them.
Those stories are all very emblematic of where my head was at that time, so I suppose I'm kind of wistful and nostalgic about them, as they reflect my preoccupations at the time.
They should have found homes, but didn't (remember my previous grousing about how venues began drying up? Yeah...). At least this way, they get to "live" -- the original collection contained nine stories, but I added two more from my archive (I have a lot of stories in there) to buff it up to eleven (heh, maybe a SPINAL TAP nod, there).
It also reflects a time before I adopted pen names to cover my science fiction. I am a longstanding fan of science fiction, and wrote those stories under my own name.
Since then, I willfully migrated my science fiction into one of my pen names -- Dean Vale, specifically -- where all future SF I write will go. You can see my existing Dean stories here:
Dean Vale
Both are terminally unread books, as is my literary tradition, but I'm proud of them, too.
However, as I've said before, I'm slowly backing away from indie horror, so you can be sure there'll be more Dean Vale science fiction stories coming in the future.
In fact, I've already written two SF books, which will be appearing in '24 and '25, if all goes well.
In the meantime, if you want to see how I approach science fiction, check out SINGULARITIES, or those Dean Vale stories, and you'll see.
Short story collections are notoriously hard sells, but these still deserved that new edition, and I'm happy they'll blast off again, even if they ultimately burn up on reentry.
SINGULARITIES
I think it captures the spirit of the collection. I can't help but be a little wistful about it, as this collection contains 11 heavily-rejected short stories of mine from a time when I tried very hard to get short stories picked up somewhere, anywhere, and failed.
Now, one could look at the collection as a bunch of loser stories, since they never found their proper homes back in the day ("the day" being around 2005-2015, if memory serves).
But I think the stories are all really good (and I'm still my toughest critic of my own work), so I guess we'll see what people think, assuming anyone reads them. I'm proud of the stories in this collection, and as a time capsule of where I was at the time I wrote them.
Those stories are all very emblematic of where my head was at that time, so I suppose I'm kind of wistful and nostalgic about them, as they reflect my preoccupations at the time.
They should have found homes, but didn't (remember my previous grousing about how venues began drying up? Yeah...). At least this way, they get to "live" -- the original collection contained nine stories, but I added two more from my archive (I have a lot of stories in there) to buff it up to eleven (heh, maybe a SPINAL TAP nod, there).
It also reflects a time before I adopted pen names to cover my science fiction. I am a longstanding fan of science fiction, and wrote those stories under my own name.
Since then, I willfully migrated my science fiction into one of my pen names -- Dean Vale, specifically -- where all future SF I write will go. You can see my existing Dean stories here:
Dean Vale
Both are terminally unread books, as is my literary tradition, but I'm proud of them, too.
However, as I've said before, I'm slowly backing away from indie horror, so you can be sure there'll be more Dean Vale science fiction stories coming in the future.
In fact, I've already written two SF books, which will be appearing in '24 and '25, if all goes well.
In the meantime, if you want to see how I approach science fiction, check out SINGULARITIES, or those Dean Vale stories, and you'll see.
Short story collections are notoriously hard sells, but these still deserved that new edition, and I'm happy they'll blast off again, even if they ultimately burn up on reentry.
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