Archive for May, 2010

Memories of the Future

Friday, May 14th, 2010

The best science fiction/fantasy collection of 2009 was a book of 80-year old stories: Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. If anyone out there knows how to pronounce “Krzhizhanovsky,” leave a comment. I’m really curious. Memories collects seven stories written in the Soviet Union during the late 1920s. (It might also have been published [...]

Alternate Histories

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

I haven’t written much lately. I’ve felt used up and exhausted and, honestly, I feel like I haven’t been thinking much lately. Writing is thought set down and recorded, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that I haven’t come up with much in the way of text. Also, the random, unmoored weirdness of the [...]