Time Master, Seasons Unceasing Received at Last!
No fault to the publisher, a check of the contract said I wasn’t due to get a print copy, and my two-year-old ledger had the payment recorded (though with PayPal skimming off one or two bucks). The book: SEASONS UNCEASING, officially published by Worldsmyths (cf. November 8 2022, et al.) in December 2022. But, while I had been waiting for an update on line edits, a number of which I had disagreed with on a previous pass, they had apparently just gone along with me on most and — apparently without letting me know (well, in fairness the Internet Monster has been known to eat messages too) — went ahead and released it.
The story: “The Master of Time,” originally published in the Summer 2002 FANTASTIC. And now in my hands, as big as life, starting on p. 111 of SEASONS UNCEASING, a collection of (to quote from the original call) [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. And which arrived now because, having run across the story folder and wondering why it hadn’t been filed a year-and-a-half back — it’s not unheard of, for instance, for publications to be delayed sometimes for longer than that — I discovered the book had in fact been published!
And so, what the heck, the book’s premise still seeming interesting — not to mention to fill a hole on my “trophy shelf” — I went ahead and ordered a copy from Amazon (for more on which, and/or to order a copy yourself, press here) which has just now arrived!
