tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113696462024-03-07T03:44:32.941-05:00BeluthahatchieThis is a blog by Andy Duncan, a fiction writer, teacher and journalist, mostly in that order.Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.comBlogger482125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-58985486434637569742022-02-13T09:01:00.003-05:002022-02-13T09:01:35.533-05:00"Rights are inherent": Letter to the editor, Feb. 12, 2022<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsiitRKrbJn0LxeddKEVZZAZnz2YzdFXuBuwLbkAdPn4GBDGiaDaBYNdEZP_oY4NZg0_ChpteQxgcIYmIQwQmOCDPdCJSVWrY1kuvBfN7cK9mclUhLVTHrcoTAAGA298J943uPtDKtG6kSeqDgx-XvLxzBylT9Akui9eios7N75OT8RhtOPp4=s3232" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1952" data-original-width="3232" height="387" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsiitRKrbJn0LxeddKEVZZAZnz2YzdFXuBuwLbkAdPn4GBDGiaDaBYNdEZP_oY4NZg0_ChpteQxgcIYmIQwQmOCDPdCJSVWrY1kuvBfN7cK9mclUhLVTHrcoTAAGA298J943uPtDKtG6kSeqDgx-XvLxzBylT9Akui9eios7N75OT8RhtOPp4=w640-h387" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p>The <a href="https://www.times-news.com/" target="_blank">Cumberland Times-News</a> published by latest letter to the editor this weekend, dated Feb. 12, under the headline "Rights are inherent." The text is below.</p><p>==</p><p style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rights
must be earned, argues David Biser of Cumberland (“Rights, duties and
everything in between,” Feb. 3). “Duties precede rights,” Biser says.
“Duties are the foundation upon which rights are built and founded.” To
forget this, to emphasize the primacy of rights over duties, is in
Biser’s words “a recipe for disaster,” a guarantee of “anarchy and
chaos.” </span></p><p style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Let’s
present Biser with a newborn infant – a squirming, squalling embodiment
of pure, naked Need. Does this baby have a right to be fed, clothed,
sheltered, loved? Not in Biser’s world-view. What duties has this child
performed, in its first minutes of life? For that matter, what duties,
what work, could it possibly accomplish? What good is it, really, to
anyone? </span></p><p style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Oh,
sure, a sentimentalist could point out that a theoretical someone might
enjoy caring for the thing – but has that person earned the right to
raise a child? What duties have they taken on, in order to be granted
this enormous privilege, in the flat, arid, quid-pro-quo landscape of
Biser World? </span></p><p style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Having
discarded this infant, and all its lazy, noisy, unqualified ilk, let us
widen our view of Biser World. All the aged and the infirm, for
example. What duties can they possibly fulfill? They may have served
their purpose for a time, but now they might as well be babies; and we
have dealt with babies. </span></p><p style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Meanwhile,
who is tallying how many households actually deserve to expect
ambulance service, fire and police protection, clean air and water,
proper medical care? These rights must be earned, after all. </span></p><p style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">How
about the right to vote? How many poll taxes and other qualifications
does Biser World impose, to ensure that only the deserving get to cast a
ballot and have it count? </span></p><p style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
same efficiencies, one assumes, are in place to deny the undutiful, and
hence the undeserving, of all other rights they might unreasonably
claim: to a fair trial, to education, to opportunity; to their right to
be heard, to be visible – indeed, their right to exist. </span></p><p style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
turn away from this dystopian wasteland with a shudder. Biser World is,
at base – and a baser base cannot be imagined – a terrifying,
heartless, nightmare scenario, the antithesis of America, of
civilization, of humanity. That many people, including some of our
Allegany County neighbors, are secretly and not-so-secretly working to
bring it about, makes it even scarier. </span></p><p style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Let’s work instead for a society based on cooperation, on communication, on compassion, while we yet have the rights to do so.<span> </span><span> </span> </span></p><p style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Andy Duncan, Frostburg<br /></span></p>Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-40500722113299998082020-11-11T11:27:00.000-05:002020-11-11T11:27:00.420-05:00Letter to my undergrad students, Nov. 9<p> <i>I sent this letter via Canvas Announcements to all my Frostburg State University classes Monday, Nov. 9.</i></p><p>Hello! How are you?</p><div class="discussion-section message_wrapper"><div class="message user_content enhanced" data-bind="message">
<p>Yeah, I’m panicked, too. Let’s all take a deep breath, please …</p>
<p>hold it a few seconds …</p>
<p>then let it out.</p>
<p>Now, let’s do it twice more.</p>
<p>Done?</p>
<p>OK, now you can keep reading.</p>
<p>The last day of classes is only nine days away (yikes!), and two
weeks from Thursday is Thanksgiving (double yikes!), by which time
(believe it or not) all grades will be in, and our bizarre semester will
be over – a semester that has not gone according to plan on any level, a
semester that may yet throw some surprises at us, in the final two
weeks.</p>
<p>Even so, it WILL BE OVER, and we will have gotten through it, together.</p>
<p>Every day since mid-August – and I mean EVERY DAY, weekends included,
no exaggeration – individual students have shared with me their
feelings of demoralization and panic and being overwhelmed, have told me
about illness and family crisis and financial hardship, have expressed
uncertainty and concern about the semester, the election, the pandemic,
the university administration, social justice, the economy, their
careers, the future in general.</p>
<p>I have been hearing all those same things from Frostburg State
faculty, too, and from Frostburg State staff. We all are staggering as
we near the finish line of Fall 2020, and no one has been at their best,
certainly not me.</p>
<p>I’ve been trying all semester to accommodate individual students who
have found themselves in difficulty, amid the unprecedented
circumstances in which we all find ourselves, because I know exactly how
they feel. I expect to do even more of that in the next two weeks, as I
hear from one panicked student after another, and try to calm each one
down a little, and (in the process) calm myself.</p>
<p>In the days to come, you’ll get emails from me as I post final
assignments, grade outstanding ones, and share handouts, links and
announcements that may be helpful. I’ll even be chasing some of you to
find out the status of things that are missing, or just to see how you
are.</p>
<p>But please, as you understandably worry about practically everything
else in the next two weeks, try not to worry about your grades in my
class. If you’re doing the work and participating in our online
community, you’ll be fine. I will do my best to penalize no one for my
steep learning curve in adjusting to our first online-only semester, nor
for the state of our campus/region/nation.</p>
<p>If I can help any of you with anything, whether it’s class-specific
or not, please let me know – not just this month, but over winter break,
and next semester, too. More than you know, you have all helped me
through this difficult semester, and I promise that my interest in you
will not end at Thanksgiving.</p>
<p>So. Are we ready to finish this thing?</p>
<p>OK, let’s start by taking a deep breath …</p>
<p>holding it a few seconds …</p>
<p>then letting it out.</p>
<p>Twice more …</p>
<p>All righty, back to work! For me, anyway. I’ll update you soon, but
in the meantime, thanks for all, stay safe, wear your masks, avoid
crowds – and good luck! I believe in us; I believe in you. </p></div>
</div>Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-15879754282158675232020-10-21T13:53:00.005-04:002020-10-21T13:59:16.940-04:00Recommended reading from 2020<div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzi6l549suD3q8y7XcoJ5WVNbVjIu2nG8Ju4aYsexZYHm5PmbhyphenhyphenZnBBiF0hkVQ-jGZSzr70jKpExMH4Kf_kHR0AXx_yjsd9aEcitx7EYqTDW7DwiF-dmsd0EikGi4f-DCTcI7TQw/s2016/Capclave+2020+stack.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzi6l549suD3q8y7XcoJ5WVNbVjIu2nG8Ju4aYsexZYHm5PmbhyphenhyphenZnBBiF0hkVQ-jGZSzr70jKpExMH4Kf_kHR0AXx_yjsd9aEcitx7EYqTDW7DwiF-dmsd0EikGi4f-DCTcI7TQw/s320/Capclave+2020+stack.jpg" /></a></div><br />Clearly I overprepared for Sunday's <a href="https://www.capclave.org/capclave/capclave20/" target="_blank">Capclave</a> panel titled Best Fiction of 2020, as there were (gasp) other people on the panel, with even taller stacks. And I was silly to think we'd have time to talk non-fiction, too.<p></p><p>Here's the list of speculative-fiction titles I brought to the panel, only a few of which I got the chance to talk about. I will add to this list later, as I have a lot more reading to do. For example, I have barely begun to read the print magazines, a stack of which will comfort me in December, once the semester's over.</p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Short Stories</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
(<a href="https://www.sfwa.org/" target="_blank">SFWA</a> defines these as shorter than 7,500 words)</span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ashley Blooms, “Little and Less,” F&SF,
<a href="https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/current.htm" target="_blank">September/October</a></span><br /></div>
<br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">J.R. Dawson, “<a href="https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/shed-never-had-a-name-before/" target="_blank">She’d Never Had a Name Before</a>,”
Lightspeed, January</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Yohanca Delgado, “<a href="https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mixtape/2020/06/17/yohanca-delgado/" target="_blank">Evanescent Dolores</a>,” MQR Mixtape,
June</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Yohanca Delgado and Claire Wrenwood, “<a href="http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-blue-room/" target="_blank">The Blue Room</a>,”
Nightmare, May</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tegan Moore, “<a href="http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/john-simnels-first-goshawk/" target="_blank">John Simnel’s First Goshawk</a>,” Beneath
Ceaseless Skies, February</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Gabriela Santiago, “<a href="http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/martian-cinema/" target="_blank">Martian Cinema</a>,” Strange Horizons,
May</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Cooper Shrivastava, “<a href="http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/shrivastava_02_20/" target="_blank">Mandorla</a>,” Clarkesworld, February</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Kate Osana Simonian, “The Problematic Douchebag
Collective,” North American Review, August (<a href="https://northamericanreview.org/issue/3052-3-nar-summerfall-2020" target="_blank">Summer/Fall issue</a>)</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Dan Stintzi, “<a href="https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2020/06/15/stintzi/" target="_blank">The Faces Inside of Everyday Objects</a>,”
Heavy Feather Review, June</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Dan Stintzi, “<a href="https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/invasion" target="_blank">Invasion</a>,” Hobart, January</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eugenia Triantafyllou, “<a href="https://uncannymagazine.com/article/my-country-is-a-ghost/" target="_blank">My Country Is a Ghost</a>,”
Uncanny, January</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Marie Vibbert, “<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01352-2" target="_blank">Blue Eyes</a>,” Nature, May</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jude Wetherell, “<a href="https://reckoning.press/dead-horse-club/" target="_blank">Dead Horse Club</a>,” Reckoning, January</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Claire Wrenwood, “<a href="https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/dead-girls-have-no-names/" target="_blank">Dead Girls Have No Names</a>,”
Nightmare, August</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Claire Wrenwood, “<a href="https://www.tor.com/2020/08/19/flight-claire-wrenwood/" target="_blank">Flight</a>,” Tor.com, August</span><br /><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Novelettes </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(SFWA defines these as 7,500
words to 17,499 words)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rebecca Campbell, “<a href="http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/campbell_08_20/" target="_blank">An Important Failure</a>,”
Clarkesworld, August</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Justin C. Key, “<a href="https://www.tor.com/2020/09/23/the-perfection-of-theresa-watkins-justin-c-key/" target="_blank">The Perfection of Theresa Watkins</a>,”
Tor.com, September</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tegan Moore, “<a href="http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/moore_07_20/" target="_blank">Strange Comfort</a>,” Clarkesworld, July</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Em North, “<a href="https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/real-animals/" target="_blank">Real Animals</a>,” Lightspeed, June (a first
fiction publication!)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sarah Pinsker, “<a href="https://www.tor.com/2020/06/17/two-truths-and-a-lie-sarah-pinsker/" target="_blank">Two Truths and a Lie</a>,” Tor.com, June</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Novellas </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(SFWA defines these as 17,500
words to 39,999 words)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Julian K. Jarboe, “Everyone on the Moon Is Essential
Personnel,” Lethe Press, March (title story of <a href="http://www.lethepressbooks.com/store/p576/Everyone_on_the_Moon_is_Essential_Personnel.html#/" target="_blank">their collection</a>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Novels</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> (SFWA defines these as 40,000 words and
longer)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ashley Blooms, <i><a href="https://www.sourcebooks.com/books-by-ashley-blooms.html" target="_blank">Every Bone a Prayer</a>, </i>Sourcebooks
Landmark, August (a first novel!)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Christopher Brown, <i><a href="https://www.harpervoyagerbooks.com/book/9780062859105/failed-state/" target="_blank">Failed State</a>, </i>Harper
Voyager, August</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Susanna Clarke, <i><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/piranesi-9781526622426/" target="_blank">Piranesi</a>, </i>Bloomsbury, September</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Maria Dahvana Headley, <i><a href="https://www.fsgoriginals.com/books/beowulf" target="_blank">Beowulf: A New Translation</a>, </i>FSG Originals,
August</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">N.K. Jemisin, <a href="http://www.orbitbooks.net/the-city-we-became/" target="_blank"><i>The City We Became</i></a>, Orbit, March</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Single-Author Collections</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Octavia Cade, <i><a href="http://www.lethepressbooks.com/store/p604/The_Mythology_of_Salt_and_Other_Stories.html#/" target="_blank">The Mythology of Salt and OtherStories</a>, </i>Lethe Press, July</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Julian K. Jarboe, <i><a href="http://www.lethepressbooks.com/store/p576/Everyone_on_the_Moon_is_Essential_Personnel.html#/" target="_blank">Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel</a>, </i>Lethe Press, March <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tenea D. Johnson, <i><a href="https://www.teneadjohnson.com/blueprints-for-better-worlds-now-available/" target="_blank">Blueprints for Better Worlds</a>, </i>counterpoise
records, May</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Michael Martone, <i><a href="https://www.boaeditions.org/products/the-complete-writings-of-art-smith-the-bird-boy-of-fort-wayne-edited-by-michael-martone" target="_blank">The Complete Writings of ArtSmith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone</a>, </i>BOA Editions,
October</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Anthologies</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Bill Campbell, editor, <i><a href="https://rosarium.bookstore.ipgbook.com/sunspot-jungle--volume-two-products-9781732638808.php" target="_blank">Sunspot Jungle, Volume Two:The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction</a>, </i>Rosarium
Publishing, September</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Theodora Goss, editor, <i><a href="https://lanternfishpress.com/medusas-daughters" target="_blank">Medusa’s Daughters: Magicand Monstrosity from Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siecle</a>, </i>Lanternfish Press,
March</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, editors, <i><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/580444/the-big-book-of-modern-fantasy-by-edited-by-ann-and-jeff-vandermeer/" target="_blank">The Big Book ofModern Fantasy</a>, </i>Vintage, July</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Comics</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.marvel.com/comics/creators/13917/alyssa_wong" target="_blank">Alyssa Wong</a>, Marika Cresta and Ray-Anthony Height, <i>Star Wars: Doctor Aphra </i>(Marvel) <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.marvel.com/comics/creators/13917/alyssa_wong" target="_blank">Alyssa Wong</a> and Greg Pak, <i>Aero </i>(Marvel) <br /></span></p></div>Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-24907545195868829202018-01-06T14:17:00.002-05:002018-01-07T16:00:15.215-05:00Some recommended reading from 2017<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEYBNJ-ELag7hwn8ALHwxiv4YhsVhpz1jkGJipTpH3CWnyVBwyskcj3PTAJHpuR5p4zWFrGIUJuUSPCbKeSGJs11G_n93LvcrErU7sxNYrcpPixoPmqFxuTUkLYtarPwdCrcY7Fg/s1600/The+Wretched+and+the+Beautiful.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="1050" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEYBNJ-ELag7hwn8ALHwxiv4YhsVhpz1jkGJipTpH3CWnyVBwyskcj3PTAJHpuR5p4zWFrGIUJuUSPCbKeSGJs11G_n93LvcrErU7sxNYrcpPixoPmqFxuTUkLYtarPwdCrcY7Fg/s400/The+Wretched+and+the+Beautiful.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If I had to pick one, my story of the year still would be <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezaava/the-wretched-and-the-beautiful" target="_blank">"The Wretched and the Beautiful"</a> by E. Lily Yu, from <i>Terraform.</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here are a few things published in
2017 that I commend to y'all's attention, especially readers of science
fiction, fantasy and horror. At the end, three TV series are thrown in. The
list may update; my reading is spotty, and my memory spottier still. Happy
reading!</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Non-fiction</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume 1: 1957-1969, </i>ed. by Kenneth R. James (Wesleyan University of Press)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Novels </span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tropic
of Kansas </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">by Christopher Brown (HarperVoyager, July)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A
Poison Dark and Drowning </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">by Jessica Cluess (Book 2 in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kingdom on Fire </i>trilogy; Random,
September)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Amberlough
</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">by
Lara Elena Donnelly (Tor, February)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">by Theodora Goss
(Saga, June)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>Spoonbenders </i>by Daryl Gregory (Knopf, June) </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Moon and the Other </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">by John Kessel (Saga, April)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Art of Starving </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">by Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen, July)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Novellas</span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">by Margaret Killjoy
(Tor.com, August)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Passing
Strange </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">by Ellen Klages (Tor.com, January)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“And Then There Were (N-One)” by Sarah Pinsker (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Uncanny, </i>March/April: <a href="https://uncannymagazine.com/article/and-then-there-were-n-one/">https://uncannymagazine.com/article/and-then-there-were-n-one/</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The Border State” by Christopher Rowe (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Telling the Map, </i>Small Beer, July)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land” by Connie
Willis (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asimov’s, </i>November/December)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Single-Author
Collections</span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Wicked
Wonders </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">by Ellen Klages (Tachyon, May)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>Hainish Novels and Stories </i>by Ursula K. Le Guin, ed. by Brian Attebery (2 vols., Library of America, September) </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Her
Body and Other Parties: Stories </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">by Carmen Maria Machado
(Graywolf, October)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Speaking
to Skull Kings and Other Stories </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">by Emily B. Cataneo
(JournalStone, May)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Strange
Weather: Four Short Novels </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">by Joe Hill (Morrow, October)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Dear
Sweet Filthy World </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">by Caitlin R. Kiernan (Subterranean,
March)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Blood of Four Gods and Other Stories </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">by Jamie Lackey (Air and
Nothingness Press, September)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Telling
the Map </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">by Christopher Rowe (Small Beer, July)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Novelettes</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Come as You Are” by Dale Bailey (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asimov’s, </i>May/June)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Gale Strang” by Michael Bishop (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asimov’s, </i>July/August)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Dirty Old Town” by Richard Bowes (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Magazine of Fantasy & Science
Fiction, </i>May/June)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“And the Village Breathes” by Emily C. Cataneo (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Beneath Ceaseless Skies, </i>October: <a href="http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/and-the-village-breathes/">http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/and-the-village-breathes/</a>)
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The Hermit of Houston” by Samuel R. Delany (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Magazine of Fantasy & Science
Fiction, </i>September/October)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“After the Harvest, Before the Fall” by Scott Edelman
(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Analog, </i>January/February)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“How Val Finally Escaped from the Basement” by Scott
Edelman (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Analog, </i>November/December)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine” by Greg
Egan (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asimov’s, </i>November/December)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Three Can Keep a Secret” by Gregory Frost and Bill
Johnson (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asimov’s, </i>March/April)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Afiya’s Song” by Justin C. Key (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, </i>July/August)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“@lantis” by Marc Laidlaw and Rudy Rucker (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asimov’s, </i>July/August)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Making Us Monsters” by Sam J. Miller and Lara Elena
Donnelly (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Uncanny, </i>November/December:
<a href="https://uncannymagazine.com/article/making-us-monsters/">https://uncannymagazine.com/article/making-us-monsters/</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wind Will Rove” by Sarah Pinsker (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asimov’s, </i>September/October: <a href="http://www.sarahpinsker.com/wind_will_rove">http://www.sarahpinsker.com/wind_will_rove</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Bourbon, Sugar, Grace” by Jessica Reisman (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tor.com, </i>June: <a href="https://www.tor.com/2017/06/07/bourbon-sugar-grace/">https://www.tor.com/2017/06/07/bourbon-sugar-grace/</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“A Human Stain” by Kelly Robson (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tor.com, </i>January: <a href="https://www.tor.com/2017/01/04/a-human-stain/">https://www.tor.com/2017/01/04/a-human-stain/</a>)
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“We Who Live in the Heart” by Kelly Robson (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Clarkesworld, </i>May: <a href="http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/robson_05_17/">http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/robson_05_17/</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Universe Box” by Michael Swanwick (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asimov’s, </i>September/October)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time” by K.M.
Szpara (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Uncanny, </i>May/June: <a href="http://uncannymagazine.com/article/small-changes-long-periods-time/">http://uncannymagazine.com/article/small-changes-long-periods-time/</a>)
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The West Topeka Triangle” by Jeremiah Tolbert (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lightspeed, </i>January: <a href="http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/west-topeka-triangle/">http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/west-topeka-triangle/</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Other Worlds and This One” by Cadwell Turnbull (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asimov’s, </i>July/August)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“In Dublin’s Fair City” by Rick Wilber (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asimov’s, </i>November/December)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Attachments” by Kate Wilhelm (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, </i>November/December)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Excerpts from a Film” by A.C. Wise (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tor.com, </i>March: <a href="https://www.tor.com/2017/03/21/excerpts-from-a-film-1942-1987/">https://www.tor.com/2017/03/21/excerpts-from-a-film-1942-1987/</a>) </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Short
Stories</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Invasion of the Saucer-Men” by Dale Bailey (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asimov’s, </i>March/April)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Old Teacups and Kitchen Witches” by Kate Baker (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cast of Wonders, </i>April: <a href="http://www.castofwonders.org/2017/04/episode-246-old-teacups-and-kitchen-witches-by-kate-baker/">http://www.castofwonders.org/2017/04/episode-246-old-teacups-and-kitchen-witches-by-kate-baker/</a>)
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“We Regret the Error” by Terry Bisson (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asimov’s, </i>March/April)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Goner” by Gregory Norman Bossert (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asimov’s, </i>March/April)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The Fall of the Mundanaeum” by Rebecca Campbell (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Beneath Ceaseless Skies, </i>September: <a href="http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-fall-of-the-mundaneum/">http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-fall-of-the-mundaneum/</a>)
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Lares Familiares, 1981” by Rebecca Campbell (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liminal Stories, </i>May: <a href="http://liminalstoriesmag.com/issue3/lares-familiares-1981">http://liminalstoriesmag.com/issue3/lares-familiares-1981</a>)
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“On Highway 18” by Rebecca Campbell (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Magazine of Fantasy & Science
Fiction, </i>September/October)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lily Rose</i>”
by Emily C. Cataneo (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Dark, </i>February:
<a href="http://thedarkmagazine.com/the-lily-rose/">http://thedarkmagazine.com/the-lily-rose/</a>)
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Glasswort, Ice” by Emily C. Cataneo (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lackington’s, </i>Spring: <a href="https://lackingtons.com/2017/08/23/glasswort-ice-by-emily-b-cataneo/">https://lackingtons.com/2017/08/23/glasswort-ice-by-emily-b-cataneo/</a>)
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The Two Choice Foxtrot of Chapham County” by Tina
Connolly (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Magazine of Fantasy &
Science Fiction, </i>September/October)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Itself at the Heart of Things” by Andrea M. Corbin (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shimmer, </i>July: <a href="https://www.shimmerzine.com/itself-at-the-heart-of-things/">https://www.shimmerzine.com/itself-at-the-heart-of-things/</a>)
</span></div>
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Beagle and Jacob Weisman, Tachyon)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Persephone of the Crows” by Karen Joy Fowler (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asimov’s, </i>May/June)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Eruption” by Jaymee Goh (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anathema, </i>August: <a href="http://www.anathemamag.com/eruption">http://www.anathemamag.com/eruption</a>)
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The Last Cheng Beng Gift” by Jaymee Goh (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lightspeed, </i>September: <a href="http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last-cheng-beng-gift/">http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last-cheng-beng-gift/</a>)
</span></div>
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</i>Asha’s Story” and its five companion stories by James Gunn (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asimov’s, </i>May/June through
November/December)</span></div>
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McDonald (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asimov’s, </i>September/October)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“eyes i dare not meet in dreams” by Sunny Moraine (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tor.com, </i>June: <a href="https://www.tor.com/2017/06/14/eyes-i-dare-not-meet-in-dreams/">https://www.tor.com/2017/06/14/eyes-i-dare-not-meet-in-dreams/</a>)
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“In the Blind” by Sunny Moraine (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Clarkesworld, </i>August: <a href="http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/moraine_08_17/">http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/moraine_08_17/</a>)
</span></div>
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Moraine (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tor.com, </i>May: <a href="https://www.tor.com/2017/05/31/shape-without-form-shade-without-color/">https://www.tor.com/2017/05/31/shape-without-form-shade-without-color/</a>)
</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Monster Girls Don’t Cry” by A. Merc Rustad (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Uncanny, </i>January/February: <a href="https://uncannymagazine.com/article/monster-girls-dont-cry/">https://uncannymagazine.com/article/monster-girls-dont-cry/</a>)
</span></div>
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& Science Fiction, </i>May/June)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Never Yawn Under a Banyan Tree” by Nibedita Sen (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anathema,</i> August: <a href="http://www.anathemamag.com/never-yawn-under-a-banyan-tree/">http://www.anathemamag.com/never-yawn-under-a-banyan-tree/</a>)
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Starlight Express” by Michael Swanwick (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Magazine of Fantasy & Science
Fiction,</i> September/October)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wendy, Darling” by A.C. Wise (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Daily Science Fiction, </i>June: <a href="http://dailysciencefiction.com/fantasy/fairy-tales/a-c-wise/wendy-darling">http://dailysciencefiction.com/fantasy/fairy-tales/a-c-wise/wendy-darling</a>)
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Shadow Station” by Caroline M. Yoachim (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nature, </i>April: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/544264a">https://www.nature.com/articles/544264a</a>)
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The Wretched and the Beautiful” by E. Lily Yu (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Terraform, </i>February: <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezaava/the-wretched-and-the-beautiful">https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezaava/the-wretched-and-the-beautiful</a>)</span></div>
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Series</span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Twin
Peaks: The Return </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(dir. David Lynch, written by Mark Frost
and David Lynch, 18 episodes, Showtime, from May 21)</span></div>
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3 (10 episodes, FX, from April 19)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>Wormwood </i>(dir. Errol Morris, 6 episodes, Netflix, Dec. 15) </span></div>
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<![endif]-->Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-61784759241176729362017-10-21T15:37:00.005-04:002017-10-21T16:02:30.708-04:00"An occurrence, partaking of the marvelous": The legendary rocking cradle of Lynchburg, Va.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the first volume of L.B. Taylor
Jr.'s long-running series <i>The Ghosts of Virginia </i>(1993), one chapter is
titled "The Extraordinary Rocking Cradle." It begins:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">From the beginnings of my research
for this book, every time I had talked about the Lynchburg area, people would
mention the "Rocking Cradle House." They would say that I had to
include a story on this, because it was the most famous haunted house in the
city. Everyone, it seemed, had heard about the house, but seemingly no one
could provide any details on where it was, or when the phenomena occurred.
(275)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Taylor finally learns the address --
1104 Jackson St., <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/1104+Jackson+St,+Lynchburg,+VA+24504/@37.4093914,-79.1470004,3a,75y,54.61h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEvvJoa9Dd5FxPqQijYQuiA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x89b2d973d66f02ed:0x9701ee3c22dc306b!8m2!3d37.4095072!4d-79.146797" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">which you can see here, thanks to
Google</span></a> -- and finds a 1937 version of the story, told to Works
Progress Administrator researcher Susan R. Beardsworth by a local architect
with the lovely name of Trueheart Poston. His family had bought the house in
1902, and Trueheart lived there as a boy. Here is his version of the legend, as
transcribed by Beardsworth and transcribed again by Taylor more than a
half-century later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
house at that time <span style="background: white;">(1839) </span>was occupied by
a Rev. Smith, who was a cousin of Bishop Early. I do not know whether this
cradle belonged to the Smiths or was loaned them by the Earlys, but the tale
has it that the Rev. Smith, upon returning home from his duties, found the
Negro nanny in a state of hysteria and was told that the cradle had been
rocking with the baby in it for some hours and would not stop.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Upon
hearing this, Rev. Smith went into the room and found that the cradle was
indeed rocking. Being a very religious man, he commanded the cradle to stop
rocking in the name of Beelzebub, whereupon the cradle immediately stopped.
Rev. Smith then suggested that Beelzebub start rocking the cradle again,
whereupon he apparently did so. This constant rocking under orders continued
for a period of some days, during which, as the rumors spread, most of the town
folk dropped by and witnessed this sight for themselves. … Apparently, after
just so long, the cradle ceased rocking and would rock only by human efforts
from then on.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Poston also cites an earlier source:
"Mr. Asbury Christian in his book, 'Lynchburg and Its People,' gives the
account of the rocking cradle." Taylor does not mention the
Christian book further, but today I found it online. Here is the entirety of
the already 60-year-old rocking-cradle story, as Christian tells it in 1900: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">An occurrence, partaking of the
marvelous, created a good deal of excitement in the town. It took place in the
spring of 1839, in the one-story brick house on Jackson street, between
Eleventh and Twelfth, the residence of the Rev. Dr. William A. Smith. Dr. Smith
had borrowed a cradle from Rev. John Early, in which to put his new-born baby.
One morning, as he was at breakfast, his wife, who was in bed in the next room,
called to him and said: “Dr. Smith, come here and look at this cradle, how it
rocks.” He arose and came to the door, and, to his amazement, the cradle was
rocking vigorously, and there was no one near it. Dr. Smith moved the cradle
from near the fire-place into the middle of the floor, and said: “Now Geoffrey
(he called the Devil by that name), rock!” and he did.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
news of it spread through town like wildfire, and hundreds closed their places
of business and went to see the “rocking cradle.” Various explanations were
given, but none seemed satisfactory to the people. (126-27)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The differences between the 1900 and
1937 stories are striking.</span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The story acquires a new character,
a stereotyped hysterical African-American servant -- as if a supernatural
anecdote from antebellum Virginia needed some racist eye-rolling, just for
legitimacy.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The story becomes vague on where the
cradle came from, whereas the earlier story is quite clear that it was borrowed
from another pastor, John Early. Early would be promoted to bishop later, but
he was already in his fifties, a founder of Randolph Macon College, and one of
the most prominent pro-slavery Methodists. The great man lent out a haunted
cradle!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rather than rocking for only a few
moments, empty, while Smith is in an adjacent room, the cradle now rocks for
hours, with his child in it, while he's out of the house entirely. The
implication is that in his absence, the negligent nanny has failed
spectacularly to protect the baby.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The baby's mother, who formerly
sounded the alarm from her bed -- was she ill? not yet recovered from
childbirth? -- now is stricken from the record entirely.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">No longer does Smith take the
eminently sensible, practical step of moving the cradle, to see whether it
still rocks at another spot on the floor. Instead he leaves it where it is,
perhaps afraid to touch it.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The most charming detail of the
original is gone: No longer does Smith address a "Geoffrey." In 1839,
would that have been a common nickname for the Devil? Or would this have been
part of Smith's private discourse, a semi-playful way of addressing his old
adversary? In either case, Christian feels the need, in 1900, to explain the
reference with an intrusive parenthetical. In 1937, Poston substitutes
"Beelzebub" -- which, like all cliches, is predictable, recognizable,
and safe, with no thought required.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The most interesting detail is also
gone: No longer does Smith command the cradle to <i>keep rocking</i>.<i> </i>Instead
he commands it to <i>stop</i>, then to <i>resume -- </i>as a sign, presumably,
of his mastery over Beelzebub. That, again, seems much safer than the older
version, in which Smith says only, "Now Geoffrey, rock!" and only
after he moves it. I take this to mean he's playfully daring Geoffrey to keep
the cradle rocking, and of course Geoffrey obliges. One gets the sense that
Smith and Geoffrey have been at these games for a long time.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the 1937 version, the townsfolk
come to marvel at Smith's supernatural ability to make the rocking start and
stop. (In what sense, then, is Beelzebub to blame?) In the 1900 version, the
spectacle is a cradle that just keeps rocking, without interruption or
intervention from Smith.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the 1937 version, the cradle
eventually just winds down like a pocketwatch. Nothing more to see here, folks.
In the earlier version, the rocking cradle <i>never stops.</i></span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have a guess about that last
point. Before moving on to the other ghost stories associated with the Jackson
Street house, Taylor quotes one more detail from Poston:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
cradle itself is a very beautiful Sheraton mahogany high poster affair with
turned spindle sides and a field bed canopy. It gives the effect of being a
miniature Sheraton field bed on rockers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This seems fussy and anticlimactic,
since the cradle's architectural virtues are surely eclipsed by its
supernatural history, if any -- but it also sounds like a proud collector of
antiques describing furniture <i>still in his possession</i>, a century after
the celebrated episode. And after all, if that rocker is <i>not now rocking</i>,
that must somehow be acknowledged; hence "</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">after just so long, the cradle
ceased rocking and would rock only by human efforts from then on." (I am
reminded of Peter Cook's old bit about John Stitch, self-described
"non-stop dancer," who is forced to explain why, in that moment, he
is not dancing.)</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
much prefer the 1900 story to the 1937 story, but the 1937 story makes me
wonder whether the old cradle is still around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sources:</span><br />
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<![endif]-->Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-18077726509996209872017-10-21T13:46:00.000-04:002017-10-21T13:51:24.793-04:00Kit Reed, 1932-2017<i>(I first posted this on Facebook on Sept. 29, 2017.)</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sydney and Andy Duncan, Kit Reed and David G. Hartwell at ICFA in Orlando, Fla., March 2012.</td></tr>
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I keep trying, and failing, to write about the remarkable fiction writer Kit Reed,
who died five days ago. By “remarkable” I mean her fiction – satiric,
savage, funny, powerful, deeply felt, and as unclassifiable as Shirley
Jackson’s – but I mean Kit herself, too. Maybe my loss for words springs
from the fact that Kit always strongly reminded me of all the long-gone
aunts who helped raise me: smart, fierce, loving, generous, and
unapologetically in my business all the time. I am better for their
existence, and hers.<br />
<br />
Was any luminary in our field ever easier to
know? Years ago, at the International Conference on the Fantastic in
the Arts in Florida, a distinguished-looking older couple, he much
taller than she, strolled across the patio and sat down at our table in
the outdoor bar. Sydney
and I had no idea who they were. "Hello," said the woman. "I'm Kit
Reed, and this is Joe." “Hello,” said Joe, which was just about the last
word he managed to get in, for the next hour, because Kit had begun
yakking away as if she had known us all our lives, and there it was, as
simple as that: We’d been adopted – by THE Kit Reed! Holy moley!<br />
<br />
I
was shocked to learn that at her untimely death, Kit was 85 years old.
She always seemed about a half-century younger. In my photos of her
through the years, she tends to be in blurred motion, and always
talking. She loved good conversation, and gossip, and anecdotes told and
retold, and long dinners with small groups of friends. I guess it was
appropriate, then, that the news of her death came as I sat in a crowded
booth at the Lost City Diner in Baltimore, wedged between Sarah Pinsker and Scott Edelman, whereupon we immediately began telling Kit Reed stories. But our conversation was much duller, without Kit there to help us.<br />
<br />
She and Joe had me as a houseguest once, at their big, cozy, eclectic
Connecticut home. After dinner, Kit played with the dogs, Joe painted –
from an easel and palette attached to his easy chair, a startling
cantilevered affair – and we all watched that week’s episode of <i>True
Blood</i>. The Reeds kept up a running sardonic commentary, especially
during the sex scenes. "<i>True Blood</i> is all about the sex, really," Kit
said. "That’s not just <i>True Blood</i>, dear," Joe said, daubing his
canvas. "That’s <i>everything</i>."<br />
<br />
On one of our rare visits to
Manhattan, the Reeds took the train into the city so that Kit could
treat us to lunch at her club, the Century Association on 43rd Street
(founded 1847). As we prowled the library, where I kept expecting
Phileas Fogg to walk in at any moment, Kit offered to sponsor me for
membership, one of the few occasions when I’ve actually been speechless;
after some discussion, Sydney and I agreed we’d better keep paying the
mortgage instead. When the World Fantasy Convention was in the D.C. area
in 2014, we played hooky one night with Kit and David G. Hartwell for
dinner at the Cosmos Club on Massachusetts Avenue, where Century members
have dining privileges. Even David, that dazzling urbanite, seemed a
bit cowed by the sumptuous Beaux Arts surroundings, but Kit cheerfully
criticized every aspect of the joint as clearly inferior to the Century,
which after all had a 31-year head start on the jumped-up wannabees of
Dupont Circle. Weeks later, I called Kit just to report that the Cosmos
Club comb I had pocketed as a souvenir in the gents’ already was losing
its lettering. “You can barely read it,” I told her. “It’s all rubbing
off.” She crowed in triumph: “That’s D.C. for you! Shoddy at every
level!”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kit Reed and Sydney Duncan on the Century Club's rooftop patio in Manhattan, with the Chrysler Building in the background, January 2015.</td></tr>
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<br />
An hour with Kit was an hour of total involvement. She
really wanted to know what you thought, and asked follow-up questions.
She dug deep. Once I was traveling cross country, I forget why: one of
those long weary days of planes, shuttles, taxis, moving sidewalks.
Every time I looked at my smartphone, there was a fresh text message
from Kit, who was obsessed that week with some mutual friends who seemed
to be breaking up with one another and hooking up with other friends.
Kit had opinions and speculations about all these people, was
handicapping the outcome in all directions, and demanded to know what I
thought. At the luggage carousel, as I typed out my 15th reply, I
giggled and thought, well, this is it, this is my life now: I’m Kit
Reed’s co-host. That wasn’t true, but it would have been a good life, I
think.<br />
<br />
The last time she was able to attend ICFA, she and I
walked a few blocks to Sonny’s BBQ, because Kit wanted “a lot of meat.” I
gently said that driving might be better than walking, a suggestion she
vetoed. “I’ll tell you what you can do for me, though,” she said.
“Whenever we approach a curb, let me just touch your arm with one hand. I
won’t grab it. I won’t hold on. I’ll just touch it. It’ll help my
balance.” So that’s what we did. At each curb, her fingertips barely
grazed my arm, like a butterfly alighting, and she kept walking, and
talking, and was fine. I can feel her fingers still.</div>
Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-22780360841024774412017-08-23T11:14:00.002-04:002017-08-23T11:35:42.788-04:00Brian Aldiss, 1925-2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I took this photo of Brian Aldiss the last time I saw him, at the
World Science Fiction Convention in London, three years ago this summer.
He was busily signing books at the PS Publishing table (alongside Paul
McAuley, in the background), at the head of a very long line of
supplicants, so I didn't think I'd get to chat with him at all. But
Brian's partner, Alison Soskice, saw me lurking about, hailed me, and
brought me behind the table, where she and I yakked happily for seve<span class="x_text_exposed_show">ral minutes.<br />
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<span class="x_text_exposed_show">Brian chatted with the customers
the whole time, seemingly oblivious to us. But then he slowly reared
back in his swivel chair, putting his large head beside ours, and
gruffly asked Alison, "What do you mean, talking to this rogue?" Then he
twinkled at me, rocked forward again, and greeted another customer. <br />
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<span class="x_text_exposed_show">When done with her, he reared back again and asked me, with a hopeful air, "Where's Sydney?" (meaning my wife, of course). "She's at home, I'm afraid," I replied. His face darkened
comically, like a panto villain's. "What good are you, then?" he
snarled, then twinkled, and sat forward again. <br />
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<span class="x_text_exposed_show">That's how it went for the next
half-hour or so. Between customers, he'd rear back, say something
cheerfully insulting to me, then twinkle, and sit forward again. This
photo is of one of the twinkles.</span></div>
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<span class="x_text_exposed_show"><span class="x_UFICommentBody x__1n4g">Of
the many obituaries, I best liked Christopher Priest's in The Guardian.
"He wrote lively, intelligent prose, shot through with subversive
humour, linguistic novelty and human observation. ... One of the most
exhilarating aspects of reading Aldiss is the
diversity of his imagination." Priest also notes, "All his working life
he did much behind the scenes to encourage, support and promote younger
writers." I can attest to that personally, and I'm sure Priest can as
well</span>. <br />
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<span class="x_text_exposed_show">I tried to describe what Brian
meant to me in my introduction to his collection <i>Cultural Breaks</i>
(Tachyon, 2005), but it deteriorated into mere anecdote, as usual. Here
are some relevant, slightly revised, excerpts from that essay.<br />
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<span class="x_text_exposed_show">I loved Brian W. Aldiss the
writer for most of my reading life, but in the 1990s I came to love
Brian W. Aldiss the person as well. I met Brian through an annual event
we both attended, the International Conference for the Fantastic in the
Arts. Note the aplomb with which I toss off "we both attended," as if we
were peers, old cronies from <i>New Worlds</i> before that kid Moorcock took
it over. In fact, Brian was a living legend, with the ICFA title of
Permanent Special Guest, when I first showed up as a graduate student.<br />
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<span class="x_text_exposed_show">I had read and admired his books
since I was a kid, when I first plucked them off the shelves of the
public library in Batesburg, South Carolina, where the librarian
helpfully stamped each one -- even <i>Billion Year Spree</i>, which I read with
delight, cover to cover, at age twelve -- with the little red
rocketship that meant "science fiction." So being in his presence as an
adult still reduced me to awe, to the level of the whining schoolboy,
with his satchel.</span></div>
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<span class="x_text_exposed_show">My letter of transit to Brian was
my then-girlfriend, now wife, Sydney, whom he promptly recruited, on
sight, into the unofficial stock company that peopled the one-act plays
he staged at ICFA each year. One year, I remember, there were several
rehearsals, and at each rehearsal Sydney's role got bigger. Some of the
script pages were handwritten. Brian was going back to his hotel room
and writing whole monologues just for Sydney. "If Sydney's in it," Brian
liked to say, "it's fireproof!" Since I was hanging around anyway,
Brian was good enough to toss me a role occasionally. As a result,
Sydney and I got to play the robot child's troubled parents in Brian's
own stage version of "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long," years before
what's-her-name and what's-his-face played the roles in Spielberg's <i>A.I.</i></span></div>
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<span class="x_text_exposed_show">One of Brian's ICFA plays was <i>Drinks with the Spider King</i>. Brian and I both were typecast, he as the
Spider King and I as a brainless minion. My role was to sit at his
feet, gnaw an imaginary haunch of meat and gaze up at him with fearsome
adoration. This I found easy to do. I had ample time -- for it was a
rather long play -- to study, up close, Brian's marvelous face. I was
fascinated by its creases, jowls, and bristles, and the zest with which
Brian animated them. It was an old vaudevillian's face, a face that
could be instantly read from the cheapest seats in the house. It had
many stories yet to tell, that face.</span></div>
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<span class="x_text_exposed_show">In later years, Sydney spent
several summers at Oxford University, as a teacher and administrator in
the Alabama at Oxford program. Oxford was, of course, Brian's hometown,
so Sydney and I were fortunate enough to visit him repeatedly in much
more congenial settings than a convention hotel. When we went to dinner
or to a pub, we didn't even wear name tags! How liberating. On a number
of memorable occasions, Brian was the most welcoming and gracious host
one could imagine, and a marvelous tour guide to his beloved
Oxfordshire.</span></div>
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<span class="x_text_exposed_show">With Brian, we lounged on the
lazy banks of the Windrush in the ragged shadow of the dismantled
Minster Lovell Hall, where a vault once was opened to reveal a skeleton
sitting upright at a writing-table, surrounded by books. (No wonder
Brian loved the place.) With Brian, we navigated country lanes to the
old stone village of Langford (in which, Brian joked, Dave Langford had
no economic interest), and a fabulous pub called the Bell Inn, where the
lamb was divine and the conversation even better. With Brian, we had a
long and luxurious cream tea at a sidewalk cafe in Burford, which
Brian's then-young son, in the wake of Brian's 1969 novel <i>Barefoot in
the Head</i>, christened Burford-in-the-Head. ("I thought that was rather
good," Brian said, still the proud papa thirty-six years later.) Our
Burford tea party was so lush and attractive, we actually drew bees. We
also attracted a passer-by who asked, "Excuse me, aren't you Brian
Aldiss?" -- a first in my writerly experience, and an instance of
Brian's celebrity in his homeland.</span></div>
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<span class="x_text_exposed_show">On another occasion, as he and I
sat side by side on a rough-hewn bench in an extraordinary Oxford
seafood restaurant called Fishers, <span class="x_text_exposed_show">as the two of us munched fistfuls of deep-fried whitebait, with lemons and sea salt,<span class="x_text_exposed_show"> </span></span>Brian delighted me with a long, impassioned, funny, profane denunciation of a new critical anthology. <span class="x_text_exposed_show">I
had contributed a chapter to that wicked anthology, hence my delight. I
wonder whether Brian really had forgotten that I had helped write the
book, or only pretended to forget. </span></span></div>
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<span class="x_text_exposed_show">Best of all, I think, was our chance to see Brian's house, his study, his libra<span class="x_text_exposed_show">r</span>y
(which was pretty much coexistent with his house), and his amazing
garden -- a vast, lovingly tended tangle full of surprises, into which
the wanderer quickly disappeared. Goldfish thrived in the murk of what
only a soulless cynic would call an abandoned pool.</span></div>
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<span class="x_text_exposed_show">Speaking of pools, in closing, I
offer an ICFA anecdote that Brian doubtless did not remember, as it
occurred before I met Sydney and before he even knew my name. Late one
night, I sat poolside with a group of my fellow graduate students. By
ones and twos, the group drifted off to bed, leaving only two of us, a
young man and a young woman, deep in a high-octane critical conversation
about something or other. We both gradually became aware of the sound
of someone in the pool, gently swimming toward us -- at 2 a.m. We looked
up. Bobbing there, a few yards away, was the conference's distinguished
Permanent Special Guest, gray hair plastered across his head, beaming
at us. When he spoke, his voice was barely a murmur, but the acoustics
of the pool ferried it directly into our ears, like a confidence. "Come
on," Brian cooed. "Don't be shy. Come in. Come into the water." He then
winked, turned, and glided away, as graceful and amoral as an otter. <br />
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<span class="x_text_exposed_show">We did not get into the pool that night, but I've come to believe that Brian was right: The water's fine. RIP, Brian.</span>Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-69002047958746865652017-08-19T11:18:00.001-04:002017-08-19T11:18:06.024-04:00Ever more just, every daySome version of this likely is going on my syllabi this fall.<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
As a
fiftysomething Southern white man, I am inevitably associated, by
history and current events alike, with the most toxic elements of
American society, including the fascists now literally on the march
across our nation. Because my silence in the face of such horrors might
imply complicity, and because merely cutting-and-pasting our
university’s anti-discrimination policies would not be personal enough
or stron<span class="text_exposed_show">g enough, I hereby affirm to all
my students, and to their friends, families and loved ones, that I
abhor white supremacy, racism, sexism, nativism and misogyny, and that I
work daily to be a mentor, friend, advocate and ally for all my
students, including women; people of color; students who are queer,
lesbian, gay, bi, trans, undecided, intersex and asexual; immigrants and
the children of immigrants, including the undocumented; and people of
all religious faiths and of no religious faith at all. Dr. Cornel West
reminds us, "Justice is what love looks like in public." I pledge my
support as we work to make our classroom, campus, community and nation
ever more just, every day.</span></blockquote>
Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-82421700168731977312017-08-05T17:08:00.004-04:002017-08-05T17:08:57.940-04:00New sale: "The Devil's Whatever" will be in The Book of Magic, ed. Gardner Dozois (Bantam, 2018)<div data-contents="true">
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<span data-offset-key="27pr0-0-0"><span data-text="true">I just sold a new novelette, "The Devil's Whatever," to </span></span><span class="_247o" data-offset-key="27pr0-1-0" spellcheck="false"><span data-offset-key="27pr0-1-0"><span data-text="true">Gardner Dozois</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="27pr0-2-0"><span data-text="true"> for his upcoming <i>Book of Magic</i> anthology, which I believe will be a 2018 Bantam hardover with new work from </span></span><span class="_247o" data-offset-key="27pr0-3-0" spellcheck="false"><span data-offset-key="27pr0-3-0"><span data-text="true">Eleanor Arnason</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="27pr0-4-0"><span data-text="true">, Elizabeth Bear, </span></span><span class="_247o" data-offset-key="27pr0-5-0" spellcheck="false"><span data-offset-key="27pr0-5-0"><span data-text="true">John Crowley</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="27pr0-6-0"><span data-text="true">, </span></span><span class="_247o" data-offset-key="27pr0-7-0" spellcheck="false"><span data-offset-key="27pr0-7-0"><span data-text="true">Kate Elliott</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="27pr0-8-0"><span data-text="true">, </span></span><span class="_247o" data-offset-key="27pr0-9-0" spellcheck="false"><span data-offset-key="27pr0-9-0"><span data-text="true">Matthew Hughes</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="27pr0-10-0"><span data-text="true">, </span></span><span class="_247o" data-offset-key="27pr0-11-0" spellcheck="false"><span data-offset-key="27pr0-11-0"><span data-text="true">Megan Lindholm</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="27pr0-12-0"><span data-text="true">, </span></span><span class="_247o" data-offset-key="27pr0-13-0" spellcheck="false"><span data-offset-key="27pr0-13-0"><span data-text="true">Garth Nix</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="27pr0-14-0"><span data-text="true">, K.J. Parker, </span></span><span class="_247o" data-offset-key="27pr0-15-0" spellcheck="false"><span data-offset-key="27pr0-15-0"><span data-text="true">Rachel Pollack</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="27pr0-16-0"><span data-text="true">, Tim Powers, Ysabeau Wilce and </span></span><span class="_247o" data-offset-key="27pr0-17-0" spellcheck="false"><span data-offset-key="27pr0-17-0"><span data-text="true">Liz Williams</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="27pr0-18-0"><span data-text="true">, among others. I'm honored to be included. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="27pr0-18-0"><span data-text="true">"The Devil's Whatever" is my third Pearleen Sunday story, after "A Diorama of the Infernal Regions" (2007) and "The Dragaman's Bride" (2009); it also is a sequel to "Beluthahatchie" (1997), the first story I wrote at Clarion West 1994. All three of those earlier stories likewise were bought by </span></span><span class="_247o" data-offset-key="27pr0-19-0" spellcheck="false"><span data-offset-key="27pr0-19-0"><span data-text="true">Gardner Dozois</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="27pr0-20-0"><span data-text="true">, whose encouragement has been invaluable to me, these past 20-plus years.</span></span></div>
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Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-67695914942758750302017-08-04T10:53:00.000-04:002017-08-04T10:53:55.493-04:00Man Against Myth by Barrows Dunham (1947)On my groaning bookcases devoted to pseudoscience, urban legends and
folklore in general, a battered first-edition hardcover, without dust
jacket, has sat for years, since I blindly retrieved it from a library
giveaway table: <i>Man Against Myth</i> by Barrows Dunham (Boston: Little,
Brown, 1947).<br />
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I finally plucked it off the shelf, at random, and read
it. Dunham devotes a chapter apiece to 10 common beliefs that he argues
are not only erroneous, but active obstacles to social progr<span class="text_exposed_show">ess.
After I read the book, I learned the author became a cause celebre a
few years later, when he refused to testify before the Un-American
Activities Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was fired
by Temple University, where he had been on faculty, and prosecuted for
contempt of Congress; though acquitted, he did not teach again for many
years. </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">Here are Dunham’s chapter titles, listing the beliefs he seeks to
rebut:<br /> 1. That you can’t change human nature.<br /> 2. That the rich are fit and the poor unfit.<br /> 3. That there are superior and inferior races.<br /> 4. That there are two sides to every question.<br /> 5. That thinking makes it so.<br /> 6. That you cannot mix art and politics.<br /> 7. That you have to look out for yourself.<br /> 8. That all problems are merely verbal.<br /> 9. That words will never hurt me.<br /> 10. That you cannot be [both] free and safe.</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">(Originally posted on Facebook, Aug. 4, 2017. <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bud1929/6969277331" target="_blank">Bud Schultz's 2012 photo of Dunham is here</a>.) </span>Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-35618078176864071952017-01-16T13:51:00.003-05:002017-01-18T21:45:31.252-05:00The Piggie Park defense<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>(This is re-posted from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/andy.duncan.39794" target="_blank">my Facebook page</a>, where many comments can be found.)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As I graduated from an
all-white South Carolina private academy that my parents helped found in
defiance of school integration, I have much to atone for on Martin Luther King
Day, as on every day. Today I am thinking about the Piggie Park defense, an old
Palmetto State tactic that some Christians are attempting to revive in the 21<sup>st</sup>
century, as a weapon against queer people<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><i>.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><i> </i></span> </span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN1qr4MgKob4JfyULxVm0bVe7EPLrmzm8meSY2_e2q5UgfYZdxmFWvxMjNX3T-EHXvSDNhrD_Agh3YK60HvrADLrseLEXDiUmFYRbRZxPucO8OeB1luAPHL4BHhWhFIlTwCyo8DQ/s1600/Bessinger+front+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN1qr4MgKob4JfyULxVm0bVe7EPLrmzm8meSY2_e2q5UgfYZdxmFWvxMjNX3T-EHXvSDNhrD_Agh3YK60HvrADLrseLEXDiUmFYRbRZxPucO8OeB1luAPHL4BHhWhFIlTwCyo8DQ/s400/Bessinger+front+cover.jpg" width="281" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">My fi<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">rst-edition copy of Bessinger's self-published 2001 b<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">ook<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">.</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.piggiepark.com/" target="_blank">Piggie Park</a> is a Columbia-area barbecue chain whose
founder, the late Maurice Bessinger, refused to serve black people. Spurned
customers filed suit in federal court in the year of my birth, 1964. The case,
<a href="http://www.leagle.com/decision/19661197256FSupp941_11032/NEWMAN%20v.%20PIGGIE%20PARK%20ENTERPRISES,%20INC.?" target="_blank">Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises</a>, wound up <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1967/339" target="_blank">in the U.S. Supreme Court</a> on the
narrow but important point of attorney’s fees. The larger point Bessinger had
tried to make didn’t even reach the Supremes, having been a loser in the first
round. To serve barbecue to black people, Bessinger argued, would violate his
Christian beliefs; therefore, he argued, civil-rights legislation trampled his
First Amendment religious freedoms.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The late William Price Fox, my undergraduate
creative-writing professor at the University of South Carolina, loved telling
this story, and always claimed the judge’s response to Bessinger’s argument
was, “’Tain’t good enough, Maurice,” a sentence I sadly am forced to concede
cannot be found in the published federal opinion. Fox was, however, vividly and
accurately paraphrasing what the opinion does say, which is this:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Undoubtedly defendant Bessinger has a
constitutional right to espouse the religious beliefs of his own choosing,
however, he does not have the absolute right to exercise and practice such
beliefs in utter disregard of the clear constitutional rights of other
citizens. This court refuses to lend credence or support to his position that
he has a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of the Negro race in
his business establishments upon the ground that to do so would violate his
sacred religious beliefs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let us fast-forward now to the 21<sup>st</sup>
century, when the Piggie Park defense is being (pardon the pun) trotted out
again by the <a href="http://www.colsoncenter.org/freedom" target="_blank">“Preserve Freedom, Prevent Coercion” statement</a>. The 80-plus “prominent
religious and thought leaders” who have signed this – almost all of them men,
among them Franklin Graham and the archbishop of Baltimore – argue that all
civil-rights protections for queer people are inherently unconstitutional
because Jesus. That’s a paraphrase, of course – one I hope Fox would appreciate
– but hey, read the statement yourself, if you have the stomach. Then re-read
Judge Simons’s opinion I quoted above, from 1966. Substitute for “Bessinger”
any bigot du jour, and substitute for “members of the Negro race” the phrase
“queer people.” That’s the best rebuttal to Graham et al, and it was written a
half-century ago. You might mention that, the next time you run into the
archbishop of Baltimore in the 7-Eleven, or into Franklin Graham at some inauguration
or other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s getting toward lunchtime as I type this, and I
must confess, at the risk of my queer-allied soul, that if you set a plate of
Piggie Park barbecue in front of me right now, I gladly would eat it. But I<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span>never again will swallow the Piggie Park defense, no matter what sauce you
put on it. I’ve had my fill of that already.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As an ongoing research project, I hope to compile an
exhaustive list of Western Maryland weirdness. Whether it’s factual, fanciful
or in dispute, I’d like to know about anything in Garrett, Allegany, Washington
and Frederick counties that might qualify as unusual, unexpected, anomalous,
paranormal or legendary. Categories of interest include, but are not limited
to:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Odd roadside sights, attractions or tourist traps,
current or historical.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ghosts, apparitions, poltergeists and hauntings, in
public or private locations.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cryptids, mystery animals and varmints.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">UFOs, will-o-the-wisps and ball lightning.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Portents, omens, premonitions and predictions that
came true.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Unsolved or unusual crimes or disappearances.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hoaxes, pranks, wild claims and public stunts.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Eccentric organizations, businesses, causes,
political candidates and individuals (present company excepted).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Conspiracies, scandals and parapolitics.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Odd historical episodes, distinctions, personalities
and artifacts.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Anomalous geographies, geologies, landscapes and
ecosystems.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Buried or hidden treasures.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cameo appearances by the famous or infamous, whether
natives, transplants or travelers passing through.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Odd or controversial place names.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Unusual disasters, deaths and escapes.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Unusual epitaphs, gravestones, tombs or burial
sites.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Unique buildings, structures, statues, monuments and
markers.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Outsider and visionary artists and their built
environments.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Unique rituals, holidays or customs.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Unexpected course offerings, academic researches or
experiments.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Manias, crazes and mass hysterias.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Urban legends, modern myths and beliefs that ain’t
so.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I also seek recommendations for books, websites,
archives and experts who delve into such local things. I need, obviously, all
the help I can get.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Please feel free to forward this to anyone who might
have a tip, or a story to tell. In any eventual publications that arise from
this research, I pledge to give credit wherever it’s due, though I will honor
requests for anonymity provided I know who the informant is.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I also concede that weirdness knows no borders, so
if you know of such things in contiguous counties of Pennsylvania, Virginia and
West Virginia, as well as other parts of Maryland, please pass them along, too.
I am chiefly interested, however, in Maryland’s skillet handle, where the state
is only one county wide, and yet so deep.</span></div>
Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-47013495696472764362015-09-28T22:27:00.004-04:002015-09-28T22:43:36.413-04:00The legend of the belled buzzard<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration from <a href="http://www.thesylvaherald.com/columns/liars_bench_-_gary_carden/article_f3e30d6a-8669-11e2-a032-001a4bcf6878.html?mode=image" target="_blank"><i>The Sylva Herald.</i></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jerome Clark
devotes a chapter of his book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Unexplained!:
Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena </i>(Visible
Ink, 2013; 3<sup>rd</sup> ed.) to the legend of “the belled buzzard”: a buzzard
with a bell hung around its neck, which rang, as if in warning, as the bird flew
overhead (pp. 233-242).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For decades
in the 19<sup>th</sup> and 20<sup>th</sup> centuries, scores of sightings of
the belled buzzard were reported in small-town newspapers in multiple states,
mostly the Southeast. For example, Clark cites several here in Maryland:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hagerstown:
“The original belled buzzard” captured “on the towpath of the canal,” 23 April 1930
(p. 240).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Woodpoint:
Belled buzzard seen in this Hagerstown neighborhood, February 1931 (p. 236).</span></li>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Harford
County: Belled buzzard as a harbinger of a buzzard flock numbering “some 500,”
presumably without bells, January 1935 (p. 236).</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This creature
belongs in the realm of folklore more than fact. Even assuming the existence of
one such unfortunate bird, it could not possibly have lived so long or ranged
so far, encumbered as it was. But the existence of multiple belled buzzards, in
the numbers suggested by the newspaper reports, is equally unlikely.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An 1893 sketch, via <a href="https://mclib.net/blogs/history/?p=145" target="_blank">Matt Jaeger's blog</a>.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Various
origins were claimed for the apparently-not-so-unique bird. Was the bell
attached by cruel pranksters, or by a vengeful farmer, or did it get there accidentally,
while the buzzard was feeding from a cow’s carcass? Most published reports
offered no explanation at all. It was just one of those odd things people
claimed to see, from time to time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Given the
mystery, I’m tempted to call the belled buzzard a UFO, one long predating the
post-World War II UFO phenomenon in the United States. It certainly was an
Unexplained Flying Object, if not an Unidentified one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As with
later UFOs, many of these reports could have been simple misidentifications. Once
the legend of the belled buzzard was planted in people’s minds, simply seeing a
distant buzzard while simultaneously hearing a ringing cowbell, dinner bell or
school bell might have counted as a sighting, even though bird and bell were
linked only coincidentally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And of
course, newspapers back then were prone to reprint tall tales and outright
hoaxes, just to fill space and entertain readers. (Digression: Such
observations are sometimes made in a superior tone, as if the media are more
trustworthy now, but I’m not so quick to make that assumption, given how much preposterous
“news” and other misinformation clogs our email inbox, our social-media feeds,
our presidential debates. Our tools have evolved, but our tastes in reading,
and our gullibility, are stubbornly unchanged.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Still, the
possibility exists that somewhere, someone did manage to hang a bell on a
buzzard’s neck, before it flew away. Maybe that happened in more than one place,
involving more than one person. Or maybe the person who initially managed the
trick just kept doing it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Whatever its
origin, the legend percolated through popular culture for a while. An old-time
fiddle tune is titled “The Belled Buzzard.” Irvin S. Cobb’s short story “The
Belled Buzzard” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Saturday Evening Post, </i>Sept.
28, 1912) makes fictional use of the legend. Blogger Matt Jaeger <a href="https://mclib.net/blogs/history/?p=145" target="_blank">writes about Cobb’s story</a>, provides a reproduction of the cover,
and earns extra points for using the adjective “tintinnabulous.” <a href="http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/10586/" target="_blank">Cobb’s story is here</a>,
but be warned: I counted 14 instances of the N-word.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yes, I’m
writing a story about all this. Thanks for asking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And I
noticed, only moments before I posted this, that the cover date on that “Belled
Buzzard” issue of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Saturday Evening
Post </i>is Sept. 28, the same month and date on which I was unaccountably
inspired to blog about this subject, exactly 103 years later. Some would
dismiss this as coincidence! </span></div>
Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-20390386236635294642015-09-19T15:41:00.001-04:002015-09-19T15:41:56.074-04:00Happy birthday, Sydney<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Sydney in our Abingdon, Va., hotel room in August 2015, celebrating that she had, indeed, remembered to pack her jeans.</i></td></tr>
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This is the time of year when I pick up, then discard, scores of
birthday cards, because none is even half adequate to convey my feelings
for Sydney Bowling Duncan.<a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=27405486" href="https://www.facebook.com/sydney.b.duncan"><br /></a>Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-19566720052670721022015-09-19T10:55:00.003-04:002015-09-19T11:15:13.317-04:00Clarion 2016: I'm teaching Week Three<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Caption: This is one of my favorite photos from Clarion 2013, my previous stint teaching the six-week workshop in San Diego. Patrick Ropp (right) clearly is not at all intimidated by Jessica Cluess (middle), while Marie Vibbert (left) hopes in vain that the instructor will intervene. </i></td></tr>
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I'm honored to be teaching Week Three of <a href="http://clarion.ucsd.edu/" target="_blank">Clarion 2016</a> in San Diego, in a lineup that includes (in teaching order) <a href="http://kellylink.net/" target="_blank">Kelly Link</a>, Ted Chiang, <a href="http://www.victorlavalle.com/" target="_blank">Victor LaValle</a> and the team of <a href="http://www.ellenkushner.com/" target="_blank">Ellen Kushner</a> and <a href="http://www.sff.net/people/kushnerSherman/Sherman/" target="_blank">Delia Sherman</a> -- plus, of course, the students.<br />
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I look forward to meeting my new colleagues!<br />
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Applications will be accepted Dec. 1, 2015, to March 1, 2016. If you're a seriously aspiring writer of science fiction, fantasy or horror, broadly defined, and you have time for a six-week immersion in the field in summer 2016, you should apply to Clarion -- and, while you're at it, to <a href="http://www.clarionwest.org/" target="_blank">Clarion West</a>, too.<br />
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If you're wavering, let me know, so that I can talk you into it.<br />
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For those keeping count, I am a Clarion West alum (1994) who has taught Clarion West twice before (2005 and 2015) and Clarion twice before (2004 and 2013). Clearly I haven't broken the thing. I consider these teaching gigs to be my top honor in the field thus far -- <a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Andy_Duncan" target="_blank">not that I don't appreciate the awards attention, too.</a><br />
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(Apologies for letting this blog lie fallow for so long. I thought this announcement was a good excuse for reviving it.)Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-34937273733156277812015-02-11T17:02:00.001-05:002015-02-11T17:03:04.316-05:00Alan Turing in South Carolina, 1937<br />
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In December 1937, while at Princeton, the young mathematical genius Alan Turing traveled with his
friend Venable Martin to visit Martin's hometown, which Turing's biographer calls only "a small town in South
Carolina."<br />
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Turing wrote home that it
was "quite as far south as I had ever been -- about 34 degrees."<br />
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This is good for only seven lines in Andrew Hodges's Turing biography, but of course it interests me, as my
hometown of Batesburg, S.C. is on the 33rd parallel. Nearby Columbia, the capital city and home of my undergraduate alma mater, is on the 34th. I wonder where exactly Turing was?<br />
<br />
<span data-reactid=".ri.1:3:1:$comment10152680442737467_10152680444477467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:0"></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".ri.1:3:1:$comment10152680442737467_10152680444477467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".ri.1:3:1:$comment10152680442737467_10152680444477467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".ri.1:3:1:$comment10152680442737467_10152680444477467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Incidentally,
Turing wrote home of South Carolina: "The people seem to be all very
poor down there still, even though it is so long since the civil war."</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".ri.1:3:1:$comment10152680442737467_10152680444477467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".ri.1:3:1:$comment10152680442737467_10152680444477467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".ri.1:3:1:$comment10152680442737467_10152680444477467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Source: Andrew Hodges, <i>Alan Turing: The Enigma </i>(Burnett Books, 1983; Princeton UP, 2014), p. 180. </span></span></span>Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-77848827783042656222014-06-01T16:03:00.001-04:002014-06-01T16:04:43.595-04:00P.S. to Politics in sf, or, which side am I on?(Just posted to Facebook -- after hundreds of Likes and scores of comments -- and reposted here.)<br />
<br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$text0:0:$0:0">Folks, y'all have ranged far beyond the topic of my original post. May I ask those who'd like to debate </span>Will Shetterly<span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0">
to do so on his blog, his Facebook page, etc.? </span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0">My purpose at the outset
was simply to share King's letter and state my allegiance wit</span></span><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">h
the marginalized in our field, lest anyone be confused on that point;
and based on all the responses pro and con, I do seem to have done that. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">I have no illusions that the field is my own ten toes to wiggle as I
please, and I feel no need whatsoever to wear down in debate everyone
who disagrees with me, on this point or any other point -- especially
since what we're debating here, at base, is Right and Wrong, the most
personal and individual of classifications. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">I am content that I have
examined, and spoken, my own conscience; I invite others to examine,
then speak, their own -- using their own pages, their own blogs, their
own panels, their own writing. It is -- I say this once more, for
emphasis -- a necessary conversation. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">And if you'd like to have a
face-to-face talk about all this, next time you see me shambling about
the Circuit, you'd better buy me a drink first. Politics is thirsty
work. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">In the meantime, I'll be pruning subsequent comments in this
thread as needed, to keep this spiky hedge we've planted together from
overrunning the place. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".u.1:3:1:$comment10152138725472467_10152142691792467:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm on deadline. --
Yours in our great work, Andy D.</span></span></span></span></span>Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-83196196360354377072014-05-30T22:48:00.000-04:002014-05-30T22:48:27.770-04:00Politics in sf, or, which side am I on?<span class="userContent">(Just posted to Facebook, and reposted here.) </span><br />
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<span class="userContent">Many friends, colleagues, and acquaintances in
the science fiction/fantasy trades, assuming that I will agree with
them because I have known them for years, or because I admire their
work, or because I seem in sync aesthetically, or (someti<span class="text_exposed_show">mes,
I sense) simply because I am a white man with a Southern accent and
gray in my beard, have expressed to me lately that sure, diversity and
sensitivity are great, but what's gotten into all these youngsters and
LGBTQ folks and people of color and -- especially -- women? Why do they
keep picking on us? Why are they complaining so loudly? Whatever
happened to civility? Why does everything have to be political, since
we're all just storytellers, comrades around the fire? Why do they act
like we've done something wrong, when in fact we have done nothing
wrong? What's their beef, anyway? Aren't these "politically correct"
people (the argument continues) the REAL bullies? And who are these
people, anyway? We've never heard of them, so what right do they have
... ? </span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">And so forth. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">I've been hearing all this a lot. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">So, to save time,
let me respond to all of these people -- the ones I know well and love,
the ones I barely know and dislike, and everyone in between -- all at
once. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">Simply put, here is my position on all this. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">First: The increasing
diversity of our field is an unalloyed good. There is nothing at all
wrong with it. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">Second: This ongoing discussion about the field and how
it treats all its members -- a discussion instigated and driven by all
these newcomers -- is likewise an unalloyed good. There is nothing at
all wrong with it. It is the necessary growing pains of a field moving
from awkward adolescence into maturity. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">And if you're still feeling
bruised and resentful and don't understand where all this unrest, this
agitation, this backlash is coming from, may I suggest that you re-read,
as I just did, Martin Luther King Jr.'s<a href="http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" target="_blank"> letter from the Birmingham, Ala., jail.</a> It was addressed to you, to me, to us.</span></span>Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-52603286389030682412014-05-03T21:43:00.001-04:002014-05-03T22:21:08.502-04:00The story of "Beluthahatchie"I'm delighted that the May issue of <i><a href="http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/" target="_blank">Clarkesworld</a> </i>reprints my 1997 story <a href="http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/duncan_05_14_reprint/" target="_blank">"Beluthahatchie,"</a> alongside new stories by Maggie Clark, Matthew Kressel and E. Catherine Tobler, plus another Southern reprint -- Howard Waldrop's <a href="http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/waldrop_05_14_reprint/" target="_blank">"Night of the Cooters"</a> (1987). I'm in great company.<br />
<br />
To honor the occasion, here is the afterword I wrote for my out-of-print collection <i>Beluthahatchie and Other Stories </i>(Golden Gryphon Press, 2000). Re-reading it makes me realize that in pairing "Beluthahatchie" and "Night of the Cooters," Gardner Dozois, <i>Clarkesworld</i> reprint editor, paired a Strother Martin/Dub Taylor story with a Slim Pickens story. Science fiction editors don't get to do this very often.<br />
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This story began in one of my graduate classes at North
Carolina State University: Short Story Form & Theory, taught by Angela
Davis-Gardner. Each student was required to do a presentation on the technique
of one short-story writer. I don’t remember what writer I picked, but one of my
classmates picked Zora Neale Hurston – whom I never had read – and specifically
Hurston’s “Story in Harlem Slang,” accompanied by Hurston’s own glossary. That
glossary, drawing upon African-American folklore much older than 1920s Harlem,
included several vividly named suburbs of Hell, the most vivid, to my mind,
being Beluthahatchie. My first thought was, “I’ve read a lot of stories set in
Hell, but never one set in Beluthahatchie.”</div>
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Months passed, during which I toyed with various terrible
ideas for a story set in Beluthahatchie and titled “Beluthahatchie.” At one
point, I decided to write the story of a boundary dispute between the sleepy suburb
of Beluthahatchie and the bustling city of Hell, and wasted time looking into
the intricacies of annexation law before blessedly losing interest. My
salvation, if I may use that word in this context, began when I started
researching African-American folklore about Hell, figuring I needed to know a
lot more than a list of place names. This research led me to the folktales of
the slave John and his owner, Old Massa, who forever played cruel tricks on one
another, united only in rascality and in mutual terror of the Devil. My
research also led me to the Lake of the Dead, a myth apparently widespread in
my homeland of central South Carolina that I, growing up white, had never
heard. But most crucially, my research into African-American visions of Hell led
me to the songs of the late Delta blues artist Robert Johnson – and once I
realized my suburb-of-Hell story also needed to be a Robert Johnson story, all
the story’s main elements clicked into place in my head. (I’m glad I didn’t
know then, as I know now, that enough fantasy stories about Robert Johnson have
been written in recent years to fill an anthology; I might well have abandoned
the idea, assuming it had “been done.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Advice to writers: It’s never been done, until <i>you</i> do it.)</div>
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I didn’t attempt to write the story down until several
months later, during the first week of the six-week Clarion West writers’ workshop
in Seattle in summer 1994. We were expected to write a story a week, and I had
come prepared, with a suitcase full of notes. What made me turn to
“Beluthahatchie” first was, I am ashamed to admit, spite. During the first day
or two of the workshop, one of the manuscripts we discussed was a fine Devil
story, set in the Louisiana bayou, by my classmate, Syne Mitchell. One of our
classmates, I forget whom, announced that he/she was prejudiced against Devil
stories, was in fact heartily sick of Devil stories, hoped indeed never to read
another Devil story in her/his life. I thought, “Well, you’ll read ONE more,
like it or not.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I went back to my dorm room and started the draft of
“Beluthahatchie” that very afternoon, banging away on the typewriter I had
borrowed upon arrival from Eileen Gunn. (My computer hadn’t arrived yet.) I
found out later that my start-and-stop typing at all hours of day and night,
loud enough to be heard up and down the dormitory corridor, drove many of my
classmates nuts – though they were too polite, that first week, to say so. But
Eileen had told me this was a Lucky Typewriter, on which she had written her
first published stories, and so my hopes were high.</div>
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Flash forward to the following January, and the registration
table at Chattacon ’95, a science-fiction convention in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Standing in line near me was one of my Clarion West teachers, Michael Swanwick,
whom I greeted happily. “Hello,” Michael said, “and congratulations.”</div>
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“Congratulations on what?” I asked.
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“Gardner is buying your story,” Michael said.</div>
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I had submitted “Beluthahatchie” to Gardner Dozois at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asimov’s</i> months earlier, but had heard
nothing. Sure enough, I came home from Chattanooga to find Gardner’s acceptance
letter waiting for me. It was my first fiction sale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Three years later, the membership of the World Science
Fiction Convention named “Beluthahatchie” a finalist for the Hugo Award for
Best Short Story of the year. And now it’s the title story of this, my first
book. A lucky typewriter indeed, Eileen!</div>
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While I’m acknowledging people, I should note that of all
the comments I received on the story at Clarion West, the most helpful were
Syne Mitchell’s exhortations to work in as much of the applicable legendry and
folklore as possible – to make the story, in short, Mythic with a capital M. “If
you don’t take Syne’s advice,” Eric S. Nylund said at the time, “then you’re a
fool.” Eric and Syne are married now; how could she resist?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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A final note: People ask me where my idea of the Devil came
from. It mostly came from the late actors Dub Taylor and Strother Martin –
check out <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bonnie and Clyde</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cool Hand Luke</i>, respectively. But when I
read his lines aloud, I sound a lot like Strom Thurmond, whose South Carolina
hometown is about a half-hour’s drive from mine. As my grandmother would say
about a family likeness: I get it honest.</div>
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Cutting and pasting this, I just remembered one more relevant anecdote.<br />
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After the story first was published, many people stumbled badly when trying to pronounce the title. People introducing me at readings simply gave up and asked me to do it. Granted, no one from the Southeastern United States had any trouble, because Southerners are used to place names ending in <i>hatchie, </i>which means "river" in the regional Native American tongues. Still, a <i>lot </i>of people had trouble.<br />
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Nevertheless, when I told my editor-publisher at Golden Gryphon, Gary Turner, that I
didn't know what to title the collection, his instant reply was, "We're
going to title it <i>Beluthahatchie and Other Stories.</i>"<br />
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"But Gary," I said, "no one can pronounce the title."<br />
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He retorted, "They pronounced it onto the Hugo ballot, didn't they?" And I had no answer to that. In fact, they soon pronounced it onto another ballot, as <i>Beluthahatchie and Other Stories </i>won the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection. A decade later, I titled my second collection <i>The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories</i>. Why tamper with success?Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-41061533338029396042014-04-30T15:54:00.002-04:002014-04-30T16:05:11.921-04:00I'm a Hugo and Nebula finalistMy co-writer <a href="http://ellenklages.com/" target="_blank">Ellen Klages</a> and I are finalists for the <a href="http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/" target="_blank">Nebula Award</a> and the <a href="http://www.thehugoawards.org/" target="_blank">Hugo Award</a>, both in the Best Novella category, for "<a href="http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/10/wakulla-springs" target="_blank">Wakulla Springs</a>" (Tor.com, October 2013).<br />
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<i>Tor.com illustration by Gary Kelley.</i></div>
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We're delighted, of course, and thank all the <a href="http://www.sfwa.org/" target="_blank">Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America</a> members who put us on the Nebula ballot and all the <a href="http://www.loncon3.org/" target="_blank">World Science Fiction Convention</a> members who put us on the Hugo ballot.<br />
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Congratulations, too, to everyone on the ballots. The only other novella up for both a Nebula and a Hugo this year is Catherynne M. Valente's<i> Six-Gun Snow White</i>, published by Subterranean. Other Nebula finalists in our category are Vylar Kaftan, Nancy Kress, Veronica Schanoes and Lawrence M. Schoen. Other Hugo finalists in our category are Charles Stross, Brad Torgersen and Dan Wells.<br />
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According to <a href="http://www.sfadb.com/" target="_blank">Mark R. Kelly</a>, who keeps track for me and everyone else, "Wakulla Springs" is Ellen's second Hugo nomination and my third, while it's Ellen's fourth Nebula nomination and my eighth. We each have one Nebula win but no Hugos -- yet!<br />
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Nebula winners will be announced May 17 at the SFWA banquet in San Jose, Calif. Whatever happens there, I'll still have three months to savor being a Hugo finalist; the Hugo winners will be announced Aug. 17 at Loncon 3, the 72nd Worldcon, in London. Ellen and I both plan to be at both these events. Y'all come, too.Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-88015312083418276352014-04-30T15:17:00.001-04:002014-04-30T16:01:17.505-04:00Coll's "King of the Khyber Rifles" (1916)I can't afford <a href="http://fineart.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=5174&lotNo=70300" target="_blank">to bid on this 1916 Joseph Clement Coll illustration</a> -- one of a series that accompanied Talbot Mundy's <i>King of the Khyber Rifles </i>on its original serialization in <i>Everybody's Magazine </i>-- but I sure did enjoy clicking the Large view, at the auction site, to study the penmanship up close. Wow!<br />
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The auction is for a worthy cause, the <a href="http://www.lsff.net/collections/joseph-clement-coll-auction-to-benefit-locus/" target="_blank">Locus Science Fiction Foundation</a>. The illustration is from the collection of the late <i>Locus </i>publisher Charles N. Brown.<br />
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<a href="http://www.talbotmundy.com/" target="_blank">Mundy's adventure stories</a>, many set in a mysterious and mystical
India during the Raj, have influenced a number of fantasists: Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Andre Norton. S.M. Stirling's <i>The Peshawar Lancers </i>(2002) is a more recent homage.<br />
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Coll was just as influential among fantasy illustrators, for his pen-and-ink wizardry and his iconic visualizations of Arthur Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu. Al Williamson is one obvious descendant. As collector Jim Vadeboncoeur puts it on his<a href="http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/coll.htm" target="_blank"> Coll appreciation page</a>:<br />
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There were science
fiction stories before <i>The Lost World</i><b> </b>... just as there were authors before Mundy and
Rohmer who wrote horror and adventure stories. What there <i>wasn't</i>,
before Coll, was the illustrative style and technique to match
the literary ones. Coll invented that style, developed it, popularized
it, and disseminated it to the coming generations of artists who
saw it and knew that it was right.</blockquote>
Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-71394279151339253692013-08-24T14:21:00.002-04:002013-08-24T14:21:49.248-04:00On inclusion in SFF<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the nearly 20 years I have been active in SFF, I
repeatedly have told hundreds of aspiring writers – undergraduates, Clarion and
Clarion West classes, workshoppers all over the place – that SFF is a welcoming
field, that newcomers find ready encouragement and support from everyone: Grand
Masters, best-selling authors, booksellers, editors, publishers, convention
organizers, you name it. I have said that with all sincerity, believing it a
universal truth, because that’s how it seemed to me from the get-go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I now realize, in hindsight, that the happy
situation I was describing all those years was not, in fact, universal. Countless
students, colleagues, friends and, yes, loved ones have pointed out to me all
along – directly and indirectly, gently and bluntly, by word and by example –
that things were easier for me in SFF because I so well fit the expected SFF
stereotype: straight white male highly educated English speaker and so forth
and so on ad infinitum, right down the line. Those who presented differently
had different experiences. This should have been obvious to me, as a rational
and, indeed, professional observer of humanity, but it wasn’t, and I resisted
seeing it, hearing it, knowing it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That was bad enough. Worse was my habit, whenever fights
broke out in the field over how women were being treated, or how people of
color were being treated, or how blinkered we supposed visionaries were being,
of (in effect) picking up my drink and quietly walking away and finding other
people to talk to. I would stay out of it. Wherever my sympathies and
conscience lay, I was content to let other people fight the battles and suffer
the consequences. I was even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">proud </i>of
the fact that I did not speak out on these things, that I did not “get
involved,” that I “got along with everybody.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In short, I needed a brick upside the head. In <a href="http://nkjemisin.com/2013/06/continuum-goh-speech/" target="_blank">a speech in Australia this summer</a>, my friend and colleague Nora Jemisin finally
supplied the brick.</span><a href="http://nkjemisin.com/2013/06/continuum-goh-speech/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nora is talking about me, you see, when she talks
about “the great unmeasured mass of enablers,” the people who, confronted by
hatred and prejudice and irrationality, “say nothing in response,” the people
who often “simply don’t notice” the prejudice on the march all around. And you
know what? She’s right. In her stinging but accurate description, I recognize
myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nora’s right, too, when she suggests that SFF folks should
“speak out about their misconceptions and mistakes, and make a commitment to
doing better.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Back in July, Nora’s speech moved me to try to write
a manifesto, something on which I could collect signatures, maybe among fellow
Nebula Award winners. Several friends and colleagues humored me and tried to
help me with this, but it kept falling apart in my hands. I’m no good at
manifestoes. So this is just from me, and about only me:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">so </i>busted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am sorry for my cluelessness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I will do better.</span></div>
<br />Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-79453876526063926312013-06-02T01:05:00.001-04:002013-06-02T01:34:28.498-04:00I won a Nebula Award!My story "Close Encounters" has won the 2012 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, selected by the <a href="http://www.sfwa.org/" target="_blank">Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America</a>. <a href="http://www.sfwa.org/2013/05/2012-nebula-award-winners-announced/" target="_blank">Here's the complete list </a>of winners and nominees in each category. This was my first Nebula win and seventh nomination.<br />
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I wasn't able to attend the May 18 awards banquet, which was in San Jose this year, for the excellent reason that Sydney and I were attending a family wedding on the other side of the continent, in Virginia Beach. So I wound up sitting in the <a href="http://www.foundersinn.com/default-en.html" target="_blank">Founders Inn</a> lobby very late that night, watching the live feed of the Nebula ceremony on my iPhone, so that I wouldn't wake Sydney.<br />
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Moments before Liza Trombi from <i>Locus </i>began to read out the names of the nominees in my category, a large and boisterous family invaded the lobby, so I could hear nothing, and had to run outside, just in time to hear Liza announce my story as the winner. Elated, I pumped my fist and danced on the sidewalk ... right out of range of the lobby Wi-Fi, so I lost my signal and missed awards administrator Steve Silver reading my acceptance speech in absentia. Here's what I said, via Steve:<br />
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is a great honor. Thanks to the members of SFWA
for the encouragement, and to my fellow nominees for the inspiration. Thanks to
the editors of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fortean Times</i> for the
idea. Thanks to Mark Wingenfeld for research assistance, to Nick Gevers for commissioning
the story, to Jim Goddard for editing it, to Pete Crowther for publishing it,
to Gordon Van Gelder for re-publishing it, and to Chris Roberts and Kent Bash
for illustrating it. More general thanks to my parents; to my classmates and
teachers, especially at Clarion West 1994; to my students, especially
Clarion<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2004 and Clarion West 2005; to
my editors, especially Ellen Datlow, Gardner Dozois, Patrick Nielsen Hayden,
and Jonathan Strahan; to ICFA, Sycamore Hill, Norton Island and the KGB Bar; to
John Kessel, who grew me from a bean; and to my wife, Sydney, for everything.
Finally, I’d like to propose a toast to Sydney’s cousin Andrea Ward and her
groom Justin Wiley, who got married in Virginia earlier this evening; that’s
where I am this weekend. May they have SFWA’s best wishes for a long, happy
life together in this increasingly science-fictional world.</span></blockquote>
UPS is scheduled to deliver my Nebula to the house this coming Wednesday, June 5. In the meantime, here's a photo of it that <a href="http://www.themissingvolume.com/" target="_blank">my bookseller friend Glennis LeBlanc</a> thoughtfully took at the banquet:<br />
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Nebulas are beautiful, aren't they? Nebulas make Pulitzers look like Employee of the Month certificates. (Not that I'd decline a Pulitzer, either.)<br />
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If you want to read my winning story, you've got a lot of chances. "Close Encounters" was first published in my 2012 collection <i><a href="http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/the-pottawatomie-giant--other-stories-hc-by-andy-duncan-1198-p.asp" target="_blank">The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories</a>, </i>from <a href="http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/" target="_blank">PS Publishing</a>. It was reprinted as
the cover story of the <a href="http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/toc1209.htm" target="_blank">September/October 2012</a> issue of <i><a href="http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/" target="_blank">The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction</a>, </i>with a fine cover illustration by <a href="http://www.kentbash.com/" target="_blank">Kent Bash</a>. <a href="http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2012/08/lois-tilton-reviews-short-fiction-mid-august-3/" target="_blank">Here's Lois Tilton's rave review</a> of the story in <i><a href="http://www.locusmag.com/" target="_blank">Locus Online</a>.</i><br />
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Since then, "Close Encounters" has been reprinted in <i><a href="http://www.nightshadebooks.com/book/best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-of-the-year-vol-7/#.UaqRrJyXSSo" target="_blank">The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Seven</a>, </i>edited by Jonathan Strahan (<a href="http://www.nightshadebooks.com/" target="_blank">Night Shade Books</a>, 2013), and has been picked up by three upcoming year's-best anthologies: <i>The Year's Best Science Fiction: 30th Annual Collection, </i>edited by Gardner Dozois (St. Martin's, 2013)<i>; </i><i>The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction Five, </i>edited by Allan Kaster (AudioText, 2013); and <i>Year's Best SF 18, </i>edited by David G. Hartwell (Tor, 2013).<br />
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That would make five reprints, putting "Close Encounters" in a tie with "Zora and the Zombie" (2004) for my most-reprinted story. However, if "Close Encounters" also is in the next <i>Nebula Awards Showcase </i>volume, to be edited (I believe) by Kij Johnson -- and why wouldn't it be? -- that'll be reprint No. 6, and "Close Encounters" will be my new champ.<br />
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According to Mark R. Kelly's invaluable <a href="http://www.sfadb.com/" target="_blank">Science Fiction Awards Database</a>, previous winners of the Nebula for Best Novelette include ... well, <a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Nebula_Awards_Winners_By_Category#nvt" target="_blank">you can see the list here</a>. It's a parade of classics, is what it is. Do I think my story is as good as (to pick only four) "Gonna Roll the Bones," "The Bicentennial Man," "The Screwfly Solution," or "Bloodchild"? No. Am I nevertheless ecstatic to be listed with them, now and in perpetuity? Absolutely. <br />
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Weapons. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Agence France-Presse reports on researcher Ray Waru’s
discoveries in New Zealand’s national archives, including a top-secret World
War II effort by New Zealand and the United States to create a “tsunami bomb” that
would devastate coastal cities (via The Anomalist): <a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20121230-ufos-tsunami-bomb-nz-archive-secrets-revealed">http://www.france24.com/en/20121230-ufos-tsunami-bomb-nz-archive-secrets-revealed</a></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Space
Travel. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Prolonged exposure to radiation could hasten Alzheimer’s
among space travelers, says a new study in PLOS ONE. Lots of coverage,
including Space.com (<a href="http://www.space.com/19082-space-radiation-astronauts-alzheimers.html">http://www.space.com/19082-space-radiation-astronauts-alzheimers.html</a>)
and Science Daily (<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121231180632.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121231180632.htm</a>). </span></div>
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</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Saturday
Night UFOria has posted a tribute to ufologist J. Allen Hynek, including the
text of his speech at a then-classified 1960 symposium at Eglin Air Force Base
in Florida (via The Anomalist): <a href="http://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/ourspeakertonight-drhynek.html">http://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/ourspeakertonight-drhynek.html</a></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Werewolves.
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Geneticist
Ricki Lewis reports at PLOS.org on the latest genetic research into Ambas syndrome,
a rare disorder that gave the world Fedor Jepticheff – whom P.T. Barnum christened
Jo-Jo, the Dog-Faced Man – and may have influenced Hollywood’s depiction of
werewolves: <a href="http://blogs.plos.org/dnascience/2012/12/27/the-curious-genetics-of-werewolves/">http://blogs.plos.org/dnascience/2012/12/27/the-curious-genetics-of-werewolves/</a></span></div>
Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369646.post-44854769461726513662012-10-29T20:20:00.006-04:002012-10-29T20:26:09.072-04:00Casinos vs. CasinosWho's funding all the anti-casino ads in Maryland this election year? Casinos in West Virginia, <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/10/maryland_question_7_hollywood_casino_owners_funding_anti_casino_referendum.html" target="_blank">reports <i>Slate</i></a>.Andy Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421758303392878100noreply@blogger.com1