Writing News

This has been a good week for writing. My novelette, “Entropy’s Girlfriend,” has been accepted for publication in Analog. This is my third sale to Analog, and the first after a long hiatus from fiction writing, so it’s especially satisfying news for me.

Also this week I learned that the writing workshop and I founded will be reading at the New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series at the South Street Seaport on Monday, February 7, 2005. has posted the Official Release with all the relevant details on his blog, but here’s the short version:

The New York Review of Science Fiction
and the
South Street Seaport Museum Present

The Eighth of February Writer’s Group
Monday, February 7th, 7 o’clock

Hosted and guest-curated by William Shunn, featuring Richard Bowes, Jae Brim, David Barr Kirtley, Barbara Krasnoff, and Robert J. Howe.

The 8TH OF FEBRUARY GROUP is a private writing workshop specializing in science fiction and fantasy which meets monthly in Manhattan. It is named for Jules Verne, the genre pioneer who was born on that date in 1828. The workshop was founded by Robert J. Howe and William Shunn, both 1985 graduates of the Clarion Workshop, and has just celebrated its first anniversary.

WHERE: The South Street Seaport Museum’s Melville Gallery, 213 Water Street (near Beekman).

Bob’s New York

I’ve lived in New York City—Brooklyn—for 39 of my 47 years. Like most people, I’ve built up a mental map of the place where I live, in which my internal landmarks assume disproportionate size and importance over the actual landscape. I’m not sure if the annotated photomap below the cutline will fascinate anyone but me and fellow New Yorkers (and maybe not even them). For the next ten days, however, I’ll add reader’s personal landmarks (and brief annotations), as long as they fall within the boundaries of the photomap (Unfortunately, most of Staten Island and The Bronx are not on the map, and Queens is cut by about a third). Either post your landmark as a comment or e-mail it to me. The request can be for anything, from the bar where you met your spouse to a public landmark like the Empire State Building. I won’t post home addresses, for obvious reasons.

There are actually two maps: a guide map that lets you see the whole area at a glance, and the detailed photomap. The detailed map is a big image (1000 x 1000 pixels), so it may take some time to load, and you’ll have to scroll around to view all of it.

Ship of Memes


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Because and did it. (And yes, Mom, if they jumped off a bridge I’d do it, too.) I’m slightly surprised that I’m less than half as nerdy as Ken, and a third as nerdy as Bill.

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