Jack-o-lantern

This has nothing whatsoever to do with M-Brane. I should probably post this at the Region Between blog, but I'm too tired to screw around with the LJ method of dealing with pics tonight. We carved pumpkins tonight, in preparation for tomorrow. We live in Carey Place, the most haunted...

M-BRANE 10 RELEASED!

The fantastic tenth issue has entered the world. All the order options (including the year PDF subscription... ahem)  are available on Page 2 except for the Kindle and Mobi versions. Our good friend, writer D.D. Tannenbaum, who programs the ebook version for me is in the hospital....

AETHER AGE guidelines posted!

I have posted the most current version of the Aether Age writers guidelines. Click here to visit our Issuu  page where the guidelines document can be downloaded or read online. We'll start looking at submissions on November 15, with the deadline being January 30. Soon...

M-Brane and Hadley Rille to join forces on AETHER AGE

I'm pleased to announce that we plan to partner with Hadley Rille Books as publisher of the proposed Aether Age anthology of short fiction based on the "shared world" plan that was elaborated on this blog during the summer. We plan to release the book in the summer of 2010. Hadley Rille Books was founded in 2005 by Eric T. Reynolds to publish science fiction with an emphasis on space, archaeology, climate and other science-related topics. Recently,...

Back home

We returned safely from our trip to St. Louis. I still have two days off from the day job, so I will attempt to finish M-Brane #10 and come out with some major Aether Age news short...

Possibly offline for a couple days, traveling

J and I are going to St. Louis Thursday afternoon and will be, for a time, in a place that will likely have no internet access. A post at the Region Between describes our itinerary. I mention it here in case anyone needs me for anything M-Brane-related.  I don't think there is any especially pressing business right now, and I will be able to catch up on anything that comes up later in the weekend. When I get back to normal routine, I will finish...

M-BRANE #10 preview

Here's the table of contents for M-Brane #10, due out on November 1. We have a couple fewer stories in this one than in recent issues, but the items by Jeffers and Kenning are both novelette-length stories that I hope everyone will have time to read because they are quite lovely. Finley,...

Rant: Rage against Walmart

This is a tough issue, and I don’t have a good answer. But I know where I stand on it. Check out this article about this ridiculous pricing war among of the giant discounters on their on-line sale price for new bestseller-category books. I was alerted to this situation this afternoon by a good friend, known perhaps to some of you as “The Little Fluffy Cat,” and @littlefluffycat on Twitter. She was calling on the Twitterati to stand against this...

GUEST POST: Brandon Bell reviews SHADOWS OF THE EMERALD CITY

[Brandon Bell has had stories published in M-Brane SF, Byzarium, Everyday Weirdness and elsewhere. His story "Things We Are Not..." is newly available in a certain anthology of the same name. Also, if you're needing an Oz fix while waiting for your copy of Shadows of the Emerald...

Published! Things We Are Not

I should have mentioned yesterday that it was the formal publication date of Things We Are Not, and that the TWAN page has all the order options available now. Readers who pre-ordered print copies during the pre-order period should have them soon, since they shipped out yesterday. Readers who pre-ordered e-copies should have received them alrea...

Doc Savage redux

Take a minute to visit this site where Keith "Kez" Wilson presents his makeovers of cover art from Kenneth Robeson's Doc Savage series. Each one is a piece of art in the style of the original covers by James Bama, placing the "Man of Bronze" in adventures with other famous...

Priming the mental pump for NaNoWriMo

I decided to indulge in a trip to the library this morning. I have not been scheduling myself efficiently in recent weeks, and I have not been making enough time in the day to just sit and read away from the computer and its projects. I have plenty of stuff in the house already...

How girls and gays are ruining teh sci-fi!

[UPDATE: I added below the post a bunch more icky gay pics, from the Star Trek: Phase II episode "Blood and Fire" from David Gerrold and Carlos Pedraza. Just to stick it to the haters a little more. The boy in red is Captain Kirk's nephew Peter.] If you have somehow not heard about...

Issue #12 update

The January issue, guest-edited by Rick Novy, will conclude our first full year of publication. I think I wish to mark this event in high style and release a special trade paperback edition of the issue, formatted like a short fiction anthology. Before proceeding with this plan, it would be nice to have some kind of sense of whether anyone would buy it (probably priced in the ten-ish dollar range). I can recoup cost without sales being huge, but...

Aether Age update

I have fallen so far behind in recent days on business that I have been wanting to discuss on this blog, that I will need to dispense with some of it as outdated already and then deal with the rest of it in what will probably be a flurry of short posts over today and tomorrow. I've officially decided that the first Aether Age shared world project will be a stand-alone anthology, produced under a model similar to Things We Are Not, with the...

#followfriday

At The Region Between, there is a post tied in with the Twitter tradition of #followfriday with Twitter links to the book's writers and benefacto...

Some interesting items about our genre

I recommend that everyone read this article at SFF Media by John Howell titled "Why science fiction authors just can't win." It's a good encapsulation of recent events that have drawn people out on the topic of whether sf can be "good" literature or if it's just a disreputable genre...unless Cormac McCarthy or Margaret Atwood write it...and then it's not sf after all. Also covered is the recent broadside fired at the Booker Award by Kim Stan...

GUEST POST by SUE LANGE-- Michael Moore: The Conscience of America

[Welcome Sue Lange to the M-Brane blog with this interesting and timely item.--CF] October 3, 2009: I was all set to do a shill post on my latest release (Uncategorized, BookViewCafe.com/Kindle; $1.99) which is obliquely related to M-Brane SF because the collection contains my...

TWILIGHT ZONE: 50 Years!

It’s the fiftieth anniversary of the first broadcast of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. I was happy that Morning Edition (NPR) made mention of it this morning, in a short segment which pointed out—accurately, I think—that the show was a timely and even prophetic thing during...