Transcription of Interaction Between Astronaut Mike Scudderman and the OnStar Hands-Free A.I. Crash Advisor – this piece in Lightspeed, the online sci fi magazine edited by John Joseph Adams, started as a non-fiction article about the possibilities of surviving a spaceship crash. They decided they wanted it as fiction so we all took turns firing hard radiation at it until it mutated into what you can read at the link.
The Bright and Shining Parasites of Guiyu – parasites, b-boys, electronic pollution and China – what more do you want. Read Part 1 and if you’re not utterly sick of it by the end, head on over to Part 2 for the thrilling conclusion. (published by Strange Horizons)
For a long time I was writing a piece of flash fiction every day, and submitting them to 365 Tomorrows. They published a fistful of them, and here’s the archive where you can read them all. One of them involves a space plumber. There’s one about African refugees being turned into pets. Another involves a woman gangraped by her household appliances. Good times. For some strange reason, the formatting has gotten all screwy on these. Sorry, but if you want to read stories with woman on blender action, that’s the price you pay.
Stepfathers – if you don’t like reading, how about a podcast? The folks at Pseudopod did a bang-up job with this story about divorce and the infinite howling void.
Tales of the White Street Society: the Hairy Ghost – another podcast, this one about my favorite gang of 19th century gentleman adventurers investigating supernatural shenanigans in New York. All thrilling! All true! Only from the good people at Pseudopod.
Tales of the White Street Society: the Corpse Army of Khartoum – the second installment in the adventures of everyone’s favorite men with the colonial gaze. This time they go to the Sudan and things get really horrible. Only Pseudopod is brave enough to tell the truth, in great big serious voices with lots of round vowels and plummy consonants.
