BEHIND THE SCENES STORIES OF THE WRITER’S EGO: Whenever I receive an anthology or an issue of a magazine where one of my stories appears, I read the whole thing cover to cover, to determine how my contribution stacks up to those of other contributors. More frequently than I can tell you, my judgment declares […]
So: conspiracy theory. Take this with all the weight you take all conspiracy theories: i.e., practically none, given that it’s all supposition, and simply seems to fit one perspective on the facts. Don’t be fooled just because it happens to hinge on the doings of an actual, existing conspiracy; the conspiracy’s real, but their precise […]
“The Coward’s Option,” a new Andrea Cort novella set near the beginning of her career, has sold to ANALOG. This one, I’m proud to say, gives her one of the coldest closing lines I have ever provided her.