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Showing posts with label John Shirley. Show all posts

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Hugos announced (which are online) + Free & reduced ebook lunches (updated to add Farland, Powers, Day)

Hugo award announced (and where to find them if online)

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The Last Witchking 
by Vox Day
Free
Up for the current Hugo.  Controversial.  A number speculated, without reading, whether this should be on the ballot. He has enemies but also active loyal readers according to the reviews.  Time to ignore both camps and seek the truth for yourself.

Spirit Walker 
(Serpent Catch) 
by David Farland 
$0.99
The opening book in a science fantasy series.  It appears to be redivided from the original.  One novel appears to have fallen short of a Nebula nomination.

The Bible Repairman and Other Stories 
by Tim Powers 
$1.99
Featured in best-of collections and up for a Locus.

Beyond the Rift 
by Peter Watts 
$1.99
Some of these stories won or were up for about every SF award.  Only a few hours left!

Cosmic Kaleidoscope 
by Bob Shaw 
$2.99
 A few classic stories

Orbitsville 
by Bob Shaw 
$3.79
Won the British SF award

The Star-Spangled Future 
by Norman Spinrad 
$3.99
 A few classic stories

Faces 
by Leigh Kennedy 
$3.99
Stories up for Locus, Nebula and in Best SF

The Journal of Nicholas the American 
by Leigh Kennedy 
$3.99
Up for a Nebula 

The Songbirds of Pain 
by Garry Kilworth 
$3.99
collection up for World Fantasy

In the Hollow of the Deep-Sea Wave 
by Garry Kilworth 
$3.99
 A few classic stories

Roma Eterna 
by Robert Silverberg 
$4.74
Up for Locus awards, Best SF

A Song Called Youth 
by John Shirley 
$6.99
early cyberpunk -- three novels!

Friday, May 31, 2013

"The Belonging Kind" by John Shirley and William Gibson


This originally appeared in Charles Grant's Shadows 4, reprinted in Arthur W. Saha's The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 8  and in Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories.

Coretti is a sad man who can't seem to fit in.  He goes to a bar and finds a woman, who matches his shy stutter but immediately switches to a country twang when a woman of that type talks to her.  Coretti and the changeable woman pass to a different bar. Her dress changes, too.  Eventually, she walks off with another man.

Coretti tries to find her again, searching bars and canceling classes in the morning.  One day, he does find her, and she changes him to one of the title.

Solid work.