In Which Gordon Van Gelder Suggests An Essential Change To My Blog

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It's against the code for a writer to say something nice about an editor.  But what the heck.  Gordon Van Gelder, the editor and publisher of F&SF has a pleasantly low-key sense of humor.

Here's this morning's conversation with him:



I think you'll get a laugh out of this one.
http://rickreads.blogspot.com/2014/09/2014-read-92-very-best-of-fantasy_29.html
---Gordon

[The link leads to a review of The Very Best of F&SF: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology , which includes the following characterization of one of my stories:
"Mother Grasshopper" by Michael Swanwick (1998). Pure Swanwickian whatthefuckery, a Malthusian fable of immortality set inside the eye of a grasshopper as big as several planets put together. It doesn't come together exactly right, the way my favorite Swanwick stories do; there's no emotional punch hidden behind the conceptual mastery. Terrific all the same.]

Gordon,
You were right.
Michael

As reviews go, "Pure Swanwickian whatthefuckery" is hard to beat.
Gordon

I expect to see it in the story notes next time I sell something to you.
Michael

You mean you're not going to use it as the new title for your blog?

----Gordon


Above:  Photo copyright by Ellen Datlow and used with her permission.  Gordon Van Gelder's emails are quoted with his permission.  Thanks, Ellen!  Thanks, David!
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