The List
SCIFICTION is ending after five and a half years of great fiction. I don't think we should let this go without, at the very least, showing our appreciation for the site and the work Ellen Datlow and so many talented writers have done.
Here's my idea.
By my count there are 350+ stories archived at the site. I'm willing to bet that there are that many SF writers/critics/fans/what have you who have some sort of presence on the web. So I'm thinking, let's all of us write an appreciation of one of the stories.
It doesn't need to be something long--it could be a few paragraphs, or it could be in-depth; it could be a critical analysis or just a reaction to the story. Just something that focuses on the fiction and shows how much impact the site has had. Remember, this is an appreciation. A celebration. Pick a story you love, or discover a new one by reading through the archives. Discover for yourself just what we're losing. Then let's give it the best sendoff possible.
This project is going to be first come, first dibs; whoever comments first below or emails me (comments are emailed to me as well, so I'll know which has come first) will be attached to that story. It would be nice if we all made an effort to find some underappreciated gems rather than dogpiling on the award winners, but if a particular story leapt into your head, go for it. I'll update the list frequently to note which stories have been assigned. If your favorite gets snapped up, I would challenge you to read a story you haven't read before, and hopefully discover a new favorite. That's part of the idea here, to raise the visibility and readership of the site for however long it continues.
If you have questions about how we're going to do this, post them below as well. We'll be figuring this out as we go along.
Once you've written your appreciation, send it to me at snurri2000 @ yahoo.com. I'd appreciate it if folks could insert their own HTML coding if they can, but mostly it's the words we're looking for. I'll post the appreciations here and send you a link, and if you like you can post it on your own site with a link back here. Folks who don't have blogs or other web presences can just send their pieces to me and I'll post them here. I had originally set a late December deadline, but let's drop that. Sign up, and get it to me as soon as you can; if the rest of this year is a mess, wait until early in the new.
Also, as you comment, please leave your full name, so I'll know whose name to attach to the stories.
SCIFICTION is ending after five and a half years of great fiction. I don't think we should let this go without, at the very least, showing our appreciation for the site and the work Ellen Datlow and so many talented writers have done.
Here's my idea.
By my count there are 350+ stories archived at the site. I'm willing to bet that there are that many SF writers/critics/fans/what have you who have some sort of presence on the web. So I'm thinking, let's all of us write an appreciation of one of the stories.
It doesn't need to be something long--it could be a few paragraphs, or it could be in-depth; it could be a critical analysis or just a reaction to the story. Just something that focuses on the fiction and shows how much impact the site has had. Remember, this is an appreciation. A celebration. Pick a story you love, or discover a new one by reading through the archives. Discover for yourself just what we're losing. Then let's give it the best sendoff possible.
This project is going to be first come, first dibs; whoever comments first below or emails me (comments are emailed to me as well, so I'll know which has come first) will be attached to that story. It would be nice if we all made an effort to find some underappreciated gems rather than dogpiling on the award winners, but if a particular story leapt into your head, go for it. I'll update the list frequently to note which stories have been assigned. If your favorite gets snapped up, I would challenge you to read a story you haven't read before, and hopefully discover a new favorite. That's part of the idea here, to raise the visibility and readership of the site for however long it continues.
If you have questions about how we're going to do this, post them below as well. We'll be figuring this out as we go along.
Once you've written your appreciation, send it to me at snurri2000 @ yahoo.com. I'd appreciate it if folks could insert their own HTML coding if they can, but mostly it's the words we're looking for. I'll post the appreciations here and send you a link, and if you like you can post it on your own site with a link back here. Folks who don't have blogs or other web presences can just send their pieces to me and I'll post them here. I had originally set a late December deadline, but let's drop that. Sign up, and get it to me as soon as you can; if the rest of this year is a mess, wait until early in the new.
Also, as you comment, please leave your full name, so I'll know whose name to attach to the stories.
So, without further ado, the list:
The Dope Fiend
by Lavie Tidhar
* Appreciation by Jason Sizemore
Boz
by Kristine Kathryn Rush
* Appreciation by Paul Oppenheimer
The Great Wall of Mexico
by John Sladek
The Emperor
by Lucius Shepard
Star Light, Star Bright
by Alfred Bester
The King of Where-I-Go
by Howard Waldrop
The Man Who Would be Kong
by Andrew Fox
Stu
by Bruce McAllister
The Man Who Never Forgot
by Robert Silverberg
* Appreciation by Scott M. Sandridge
Different Flesh
by Claude Lalumière
* Appreciation by Anna Tambour
The Beautiful People
by Robert Bloch
* Appreciation by Mikal Trimm
Man for the Job
by Robert Reed
The Horse of a Different Color (That You Rode in On)
by Howard Waldrop
* Appreciation by Lois Tilton
All the Sounds of Fear
by Harlan Ellison®
* Appreciation by CJ Hurtt
Bears Discover Smut
by Michael Bishop
* Appreciation by Elizabeth Bear
Painwise
by James Tiptree, Jr.
* Appreciation by Moira Russell
The Serial Murders
by Kim Newman
* Appreciation by Tansy Rayner Roberts
The Water Sculptor
by George Zebrowski
The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Home From the Stars
by Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold
* Appreciation by Timothy Mahoney
Long Cold Day
by Elizabeth Bear
* Appreciation by Haddayr Copley-Woods
Under the Hollywood Sign
by Tom Reamy
Panacea
by Jason Stoddard
* Appreciation by Adam Rakunas
Parallax
by Laird Barron
* Appreciation by Chris Dodson
Anyway
by M. Rickert
* Appreciation by Rick Bowes
To Be Continued...
by Robert Silverberg
Is There Life After Rehab?
by Pat Cadigan
* Appreciation by Toni McGee Causey
A Life in the Day of...
by Frank M. Robinson
Abimagique
by Lucius Shepard
* Appreciation by Sue Lange
The Christmas Count
by David B. Coe
* Appreciation by Christopher Rowe
The Tenants
by William Tenn
Appreciation by Nancy O. Greene
Gauging Moonlight
by E. Catherine Tobler
* Appreciation by Patrick Samphire
Calypso In Berlin
by Elizabeth Hand
* Appreciation by Jana Phipps
Come On, Wagon
by Zenna Henderson
* Appreciation by Suzette Haden Elgin
Heavy Lifting
by Suzy McKee Charnas
The Starry Night
by Barry N. Malzberg and Jack Dann
* Appreciation by E. Sedia
Mouse
by Fredric Brown
* Appreciation by Gary Wassner
There's a Hole in the City
by Richard Bowes
* Appreciation by Mary Rickert
Diamond Girls
by Louise Marley
* Appreciation by Nadine Armstrong
Transformer
by Chad Oliver
The Being of It All
by Carol Emshwiller
* Appreciation by Tom Barlow
The Scribble Mind
by Jeffrey Ford
* Appreciation by Jeremy Tolbert
The White King's Dream
by Elizabeth A. Lynn
Song of the Black Dog
by Kit Reed
* Appreciation by Gregory Frost
The Girl in the Fabrilon
by Marly Youmans
Black Country
by Charles Beaumont
* Appreciation by Derek Johnson
And the Deep Blue Sea
by Elizabeth Bear
Heads Down, Thumbs Up
by Gavin J. Grant
* Appreciation by Jeff VanderMeer
Brown Robert
by Terry Carr
Passing of the Minotaurs
by Rjurik Davidson
* Appreciation by E. Catherine Tobler
Guys Day Out
by Ellen Klages
* Appreciation by Robert Cook
The Sea Was Wet as Wet Can Be
by Gahan Wilson
* Appreciation by Lynda E. Rucker
Rocket Fall
by David Prill
* Appreciation by David Herter
Vanishing Act
by E. Catherine Tobler
Space-time for Springers
by Fritz Leiber
* Appreciation by E. Sedia
Hidden Paradise
by Robert Reed
The Spear Carrier
by A.M. Dellamonica
* Appreciation by Paul Abbamondi
They Don't Make Life Like They Used To
by Alfred Bester
* Appreciation by Pam Noles
Invisible
by Steve Rasnic Tem
* Appreciation by Keith Demanche
Little Faces
by Vonda N. McIntyre
* Appreciation by Liz Henry
The Yellow Pill
by Rog Phillips
* Appreciation by Sheila Williams
Jane
by Marc Laidlaw
* Appreciation by Brian Overton
Hell Notes
by M.K. Hobson
* Appreciation by Eugie Foster
Familiar Pattern
by A. Bertram Chandler
Matricide
by Lucy Sussex
A Man of Light
by Jeffrey Ford
* Appreciation by Bob Urell
Beam Us Home
by James Tiptree, Jr.
* Appreciation by Meghan McCarron
The Five Cigars Of Abu Ali
by Eric Schaller
* Appreciation by Trent Hergenrader
Follow Me Light
by Elizabeth Bear
Gather Blue Roses
by Pamela Sargent
* Appreciation by Rebecca Gold
Nocturne
by J.R. Dunn
Luciferase
by Bruce Sterling
* Appreciation by Richard Butner
Transfer
by Barry N. Malzberg
* Appreciation by Keith Ferrell
Clownette
by Terry Dowling
* Appreciation by Laird Barron
Changing the Guard
by Matthew Claxton
Two Weeks in August
Frank M. Robinson
* Appreciation by Colleen Mondor
The Dragons of Summer Gulch
by Robert Reed
* Appreciation by Sarah Prineas
Super 8
by Terry Bisson
Free Dirt
by Charles Beaumont
All of Us Can Almost...
by Carol Emshwiller
Of Imaginary Airships and Minuscule Matter
by Gary W. Shockley
Bagatelle
by John Varley
* Appreciation by Chelsea Polk
Hula Ville
by James P. Blaylock
* Appreciation by Amy Sterling Casil
We Have Always Spoken Panglish
by Suzette Haden Elgin
* Appreciation by Sarah Rayne Trick
A Kingdom by the Sea
by Gardner Dozois
Q
by John Grant
* Appreciation by Martin Lewis
Soho Golem
by Kim Newman
* Appreciation by Derek Hill
View from a Height
by Joan D. Vinge
* Appreciation by Aimee Amodio
Ruby, in the Storm
by A.M. Dellamonica
The Wolf-man of Alcatraz
by Howard Waldrop
* Appreciation by Chris Barnes
Allamagoosa
by Eric Frank Russell
* Appreciation by Lou Antonelli
Can These Bones Live?
by Manly Wade Wellman
* Appreciation by Jason S. Ridler
Left of the Dial
by Paul Witcover
* Appreciation by Nathan Ballingrud
Bulldozer
by Laird Barron
* Appreciation by John Langan
God's Hooks!
by Howard Waldrop
* Appreciation by Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon
Beautiful Stuff
by Susan Palwick
The Key
by Ilsa J. Bick
A Crowd of Shadows
by Charles L. Grant
The Tang Dynasty Underwater Pyramid
by Walter Jon Williams
* Appreciation by Liz Batty
Volunteers
by Alex Irvine
Among the Dead
by Edward Bryant
Jumpers
by Mary Rosenblum
The Anatomist's Apprentice
by Matthew Claxton
* Appreciation by Mahesh Raj Mohan
Aye, and Gomorrah
by Samuel R. Delany
* Appreciation by Hal Duncan
Leviathan Wept
by Daniel Abraham
* Appreciation by Sue ?
Shadow Twin
by Gardner Dozois, George RR Martin and Daniel Abraham
The Girl Had Guts
by Theodore Sturgeon
* Appreciation by Cat Rambo
Gliders Though They Be
by Carol Emshwiller
The Best Christmas Ever
by James Patrick Kelly
* Appreciation by Deborah Coates
Paul's Treehouse
by Gene Wolfe
The First Commandment
by Gregory Benford
Family Bed
by Kit Reed
Un Bel Di
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
* Appreciation by Darja Malcolm-Clarke
The Voluntary State
by Christopher Rowe
* Appreciation by Susan Marie Groppi
Elvis in the Attic
by Catherine M. Morrison
* Appreciation by Dan Hartland
The Dandelion Girl
by Robert F. Young
Flight Risk
by Marc Laidlaw
On Display Among the Lesser
by Carol Emshwiller
Sin's Doorway
by Manly Wade Wellman
* Appreciation by Justin Howe
This Tragic Glass
by Elizabeth Bear
* Appreciation by Heather K. Ward
The Baum Plan For Financial Independence
by John Kessel
* Appreciation by Mike Bailey and Chris Dodson
The Little Lamb
by Fredric Brown
King Solomon's Ring
by Roger Zelazny
* Appreciation by Nicholas Whyte
The Three Unknowns
by Severna Park
* Appreciation by Merrie Haskell
Five Guys Named Moe
by Sean Klein
Ballenger's People
by Kris Neville
Articles of a Personal Nature
by Deborah Coates
* Appreciation by Stephanie Burgis
Inappropriate Behavior
by Pat Murphy
Twilla
by Tom Reamy
Zora and the Zombie
by Andy Duncan
* Appreciation by Andy Wolverton
Scout's Honor
by Terry Bisson
The Stare
by John Wyndham
* Appreciation by Gavin J. Grant
Inside Outside
by Michaela Roessner
House of the Future
by Richard Butner
* Appreciation by Michael Kelly
The Prize of Peril
by Robert Sheckley
* Appreciation by John Kessel
Peregrines
by Suzy McKee Charnas
Nutball Season
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Minnesota Gothic
by Thomas M. Disch
The Keepers of the House
by Lester Del Rey
Liar's House
by Lucius Shepard
* Appreciation by Robert Cook
My Father's Club
by Michael Libling
And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon
by Paul Di Filippo
The Periodic Table of Science Fiction
by Michael Swanwick
* Appreciation by Greg van Eekhout
Child of the Stones
by Paul McAuley
The Golem
by Avram Davidson
* Appreciation by E.C. Myers
It's All True
by John Kessel
* Appreciation by Gwenda Bond
D = R x T
by Howard Waldrop
* Appreciation by Catherine Morrison AKA Chance
The Fellow who Married the Maxill Girl
by Ward Moore
The Woman in the Cherry-Red Convertible by the Platinum Sea
by Ilsa J. Bick
At the Mouth of the River of Bees
by Kij Johnson
* Appreciation by Hannah Wolf Bowen
The Transcendent Tigers
by R.A. Lafferty
* Appreciation by Mike Morrow
Ancestor Money
by Maureen F. McHugh
* Appreciation by Kristin Livdahl
Caught in the Organ Draft
by Robert Silverberg
It Walks in Beauty
by Chan Davis
* Appreciation by Elizabeth Thomas
Greetings
by Terry Bisson
Like, Need, Deserve
by Robert Reed
The View from Endless Scarp
by Marta Randall
* Appreciation by Pat Lundrigan
A Walk in the Garden
by Lucius Shepard
* Appreciation by David Moles
Threads
by Jessica Reisman
* Appreciation by Bradley Denton
Thirty Days Had September
by Robert F. Young
Flowers on Their Bridles, Hooves in the Air
by Glen Hirshberg
* Appreciation by John Langan
Daughter of the Monkey God
by M.K. Hobson
* Appreciation by Jayaprakash Sathyamurthy
What Now, Little Man?
by Mark Clifton
You Go Where It Takes You
by Nathan Ballingrud
* Appreciation by Lucius Shepard
Big House on the Prairie
by David Prill
David's Daddy
by Rosel George Brown
Angels and You Dogs
by Kathleen Ann Goonan
A Full Member of the Club
by Bob Shaw
Touchstone
by Terry Carr
Jailwise
by Lucius Shepard
* Appreciation by Ben Peek
The Man Who Counts
by William Barton
* Appreciation by Simon Bisson
When I Was Miss Dow
by Sonya Dorman
* Appreciation by F. Brett Cox
The Book of Martha
by Octavia E. Butler
* Appreciation by Mary Madewell
The Fate of Nations
by James Morrow
High Weir
by Samuel R. Delany
* Appreciation by Matthew Cheney
The Eyes of America
by Geoffrey A. Landis
The Third Part
by Barry N. Malzberg
Temperature Days on Hawthorne Street
by Charles L. Grant
In The Blood
by Ilsa J. Bick
* Appreciation by Amber van Dyk
Unsportsmanlike Conduct
by Scott Westerfeld
* Appreciation by Grace Dugan
Frog Pond
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Frankenstein's Daughter
by Maureen F. McHugh
* Appreciation by Ted Chiang
Humpty Dumpty had a Great Fall
by Frank Belknap Long
* Appreciation by Nicholas Ozment
For Keeps
by J. R. Dunn
The Empire of Ice Cream
by Jeffrey Ford
* Appreciation by Rajan Khanna
Casablanca
by Thomas M. Disch
Death Penalty
by Leslie What
* Appreciation by Jude-Marie Green
Señor Volto
by Lucius Shepard
* Appreciation by Donna Royston
The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World
by Philip José Farmer
* Appreciation by Danny Adams
Castaway
by Gene Wolfe
* Appreciation by Spencer Pate
Boys
by Carol Emshwiller
* Appreciation by Jenn Reese
Let's Be Frank
by Brian W. Aldiss
Amnesty
by Octavia E. Butler
* Appreciation by Claire Light
Fairy Tale
by Gardner Dozois
* Appreciation by Jeffrey Ford
Party of the Two Parts
by William Tenn
Midnight at the Ichnologist's Ball
by Greg Beatty
More Spinned Against …
by John Wyndham
* Appreciation by Kathryn Allen
Protection
by Robert Sheckley
* Appreciation by Joyce Bent
Jury Service
by Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow
* Appreciation by Chris Nakashima-Brown
Waiting for Billy Star
by Tom Reamy
Intruders
by J.R. Dunn
Winters are Hard
by Steven Popkes
The Queen of Pig Island
by Gerald Kersh
On Bookstores, Burners, and Origami
by Jason Wittman
* Appreciation by Colleen Mondor
Flash Point
by Gardner Dozois
Godfather Death
by Richard Bowes
The Wages of Syntax
by Ray Vukcevich
* Appreciation by Jay Lake
The Screwfly Solution
by Raccoona Sheldon
* Appreciation by Ide Cyan
Shipbreaker
by Paul Di Filippo
* Appreciation by Jack Mierzwa
I Saw the Light
by Terry Bisson
Mrs. Pigafetta Swims Well
by Reginald Bretnor
It Becomes Necessary
by Ward Moore
Doctor Pretorius and the Lost Temple
by Paul McAuley
A Flock of Birds
by James Van Pelt
* Appreciation by Alex Wilson
The Women Men Don't See
by James Tiptree, Jr.
* Appreciation by Maureen Kincaid Speller
Voice of Steel
by Sean McMullen
What Mattered Was Sleep
by Patrick O'Leary
Melodies Played upon Cold, Dark Worlds
by Robert Reed
Fear of Strangers
by Dave Hutchinson
Cordle To Onion To Carrot
by Robert Sheckley
* Appreciation by Georgiana Lee
The Names of All the Spirits
by J. R. Dunn
Some Other Time
by Ray Vukcevich
What I Didn't See
by Karen Joy Fowler
* Appreciation by Trent Walters
Clerical Error
by Mark Clifton
Hop-Friend
by Terry Carr
In Green's Dominion
by Dale Bailey
The Last Big Sin
by Kit Reed
Josephine
by Carol Emshwiller
* Appreciation by Susan Shell Winston
The Most Famous Little Girl in the World
by Nancy Kress
* Appreciation by Steven Francis Murphy
Jemima
by A. R. Morlan
The Children's Crusade
by Robert Reed
The Geezenstacks
by Fredric Brown
Scuffle
by Dave Hutchinson
Jimmy Guang's House of Gladmech
by Alex Irvine
Carcinoma Angels
by Norman Spinrad
* Appreciation by River Curtis-Stanley
Swiftly
by Adam Roberts
Emerald Street Expansions
by Lucius Shepard
* Appreciation by Jean-Daniel Breque
The Funeral
by Kate Wilhelm
The Disinterred
by Mark W. Tiedemann
Thanksgiving
by Leslie What
Around the Curve of a Cosmos
by Gregory Benford
Three Times over the Falls
by A.M. Dellamonica
In for a Penny, or, The Man Who Believed in Himself
by James P. Blaylock
* Appreciation by Karen Meisner
The Discharge
by Christopher Priest
* Appreciation by Paul Kincaid
Outside
by Brian W. Aldiss
Water Master
by Carol Emshwiller
* Appreciation by Jack Mierzwa
Auto-da-Fé
by Roger Zelazny
* Appreciation by Jason Stoddard
The Thousand Cuts
by Ian Watson
* Appreciation by Mike Allen
Over Yonder
by Lucius Shepard
* Appreciation by Tim Pratt
Life on Earth
by Pat Cadigan
The Heat Death of The Universe
by Pamela Zoline
* Appreciation by Alison Page
Grandmother Mist
by William R. Eakin
* Appreciation by Pam McNew
Brink
by Gregory Benford
Struwwelpeter
by Glen Hirshberg
* Appreciation by Nathan Ballingrud
Days Red and Green
by Richard Bowes
Bad Medicine
by Robert Sheckley
* Appreciation by Jason Boog
The Girl Who Ate Garbage
by Jessica Reisman & A.M. Dellamonica
* Appreciation by Deborah Biancotti
The Dread and Fear of Kings
by Richard Paul Russo
* Appreciation by Kev McVeigh
Men without Bones
by Gerald Kersh
* Appreciation by Sarah Monette
From the Walls of Irezumi
by A.R. Morlan
Small Houses
by James P. Blaylock
* Appreciation by Amy Sterling Casil
How Beautiful With Banners
by James Blish
Non-Disclosure Agreement
by Scott Westerfeld
* Appreciation by Darby M. Dixon III
Light of Other Days
by Bob Shaw
* Appreciation by Graham Sleight
AZTECHS
by Lucius Shepard
* Appreciation by James Palmer
The Market in Aliens
by Barry N. Malzberg
Neutrino Drag
by Paul Di Filippo
* Appreciation by Claude Lalumière
Charlie's Angels
by Terry Bisson
* Appreciation by John Borneman
Consider Her Ways
by John Wyndham
The Black Heart
by Patrick O'Leary
Shooting the Moon
by Geoffrey A. Landis
Standing in His Light
by Kage Baker
The Other Real World
by Howard Waldrop
* Appreciation by Douglas Lain
Bernie the Faust
by William Tenn
His Own Back Yard
by James P. Blaylock
* Appreciation by Michael Jasper
Discreet Phenomena
by Dave Hutchinson
Tomb Tapper
by James Blish
Beyond the End of Time
by Michael Cassutt
Floating In Lindrethool
by Jeffrey Ford
* Appreciation by Trent Hergenrader
No Fire Burns
by Avram Davidson
Russian Vine
by Simon Ings
* Appreciation by Abigail Nussbaum
The Hat Trick
by Fredric Brown
New Light on the Drake Equation
by Ian R. MacLeod
* Appreciation by Niall Harrison
Copperhead
by Gene Wolfe
Refugees from Nulongwe
by M. Shayne Bell
* Appreciation by Rhonda S. Garcia
The Lagan Fishers
by Terry Dowling
Bad Animals
by John W. Randal
Cat in the Box
by A.R. Morlan
* Appreciation by Elizabeth Genco
Five Miles from Pavement
by Steven Utley
One Horse Town
by Howard Waldrop and Leigh Kennedy
* Appreciation by Kev McVeigh
Editing for Content
by Gavin J. Grant
Silent Her
by Barry B. Longyear
Cucumber Gravy
by Susan Palwick
The Quicksilver Kid
by Richard Bowes
More Adventures on Other Planets
by Michael Cassutt
* Appreciation by Rich Horton
The Scab's Progress
by Paul Di Filippo and Bruce Sterling
The House the Blakeneys Built
by Avram Davidson
The Meaning of the Word
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol
by Elizabeth Hand
* Appreciation by Jonathan Strahan
The Dance of the Changer and the Three
by Terry Carr
A Cold Dish
by Lisa Tuttle
* Appreciation by Mélanie Fazi
The Despoblado
by Steven Utley
When It Changed
by Joanna Russ
* Appreciation by Kameron Hurley
Tomorrow Town
by Kim Newman
The Flyers of Gy: An Interplanary Tale
by Ursula K. Le Guin
* Appreciation by Christopher Barzak
Belling Martha
by Leigh Kennedy
* Appreciation by Bill McCloud
The Pottawatomie Giant
by Andy Duncan
* Appreciation by Jason Erik Lundberg
The Far Oasis
by Jeffrey Ford
Corona
by Samuel R. Delany
* Appreciation by Sheree Renée Thomas
The Other Side
by James P. Blaylock
* Appreciation by Mark Gerrits
Nevada
by A. M. Dellamonica
The Man Who Loved the Faioli
by Roger Zelazny
The Origin of Truth
by Tim Lebbon
* Appreciation by Nick Mamatas
Wetlands Preserve
by Nancy Kress
* Appreciation by David B. Coe
Descending
by Thomas M. Disch
* Appreciation by John Schoffstall
Birdy Girl
by Robert Reed
* Appreciation by Erin Hoffman
To Bell The Cat
by Joan D. Vinge
* Appreciation by Sarah Prineas
From the Files of the Time Rangers
by Richard Bowes
* Appreciation by Charles Coleman Finlay
The Real World
by Steven Utley
* Appreciation by Russell B. Farr
A Wind Is Rising
by Robert Sheckley
Tir-na-nOg
by Dave Hutchinson
Ciné Rimettato
by A. R. Morlan
Partial Eclipse
by Graham Joyce
* Appreciation by JoAnn Cox
Winter Quarters
by Howard Waldrop
* Appreciation by Deborah Layne
Goddesses
by Linda Nagata
* Appreciation by Pete Tillman
Dune: Nighttime Shadows on Open Sand
by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
The Cure for Everything
by Severna Park
Castle in the Desert: Anno Dracula 1977
by Kim Newman
Chimera
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The Ugly Chickens
by Howard Waldrop
* Appreciation by Rose Fox
Malthusian's Zombie
by Jeffrey Ford
* Appreciation by Elad Haber
The War of the Worlds
by James P. Blaylock
* Appreciation by Robert Burke Richardson
Freeing the Angels
by Pat Cadigan and Chris Fowler
* Appreciation by Rochita C. Loenen-Ruiz
Stories no longer archived:
"Come Lady Death"
by Peter Beagle
"The Animal Fair"
by Robert Bloch
"They Bite"
by Anthony Boucher
"The Pink Caterpillar"
by Anthony Boucher
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"
by Harlan Ellison®
* Appreciation by E.C. Myers
"And he Built a Crooked House"
by Robert Heinlein
* Appreciation by Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon
"The Mindworm"
by C.M. Kornbluth
"Line to Tomorrow"
by Henry Kuttner
"Nine Hundred Grandmothers"
R.A. Lafferty
"Land of the Great Horses"
by R.A. Lafferty
"Narrow Valley"
by R.A. Lafferty
"Slow Tuesday Night"
by R. A. Lafferty
"Dance of the Dead"
by Richard Matheson
"The Ship Who Sang"
by Anne McCaffrey
"Casey Agonistes"
by Richard McKenna
"Something Bright"
by Zenna Henderson
"One of those Days"
by William F. Nolan
"The Detweiler Boy"
Tom Reamy
"The Pope of the Chimps"
by Robert Silverberg
"Sundance"
by Robert Silverberg
"Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons"
by Cordwainer Smith
* Appreciation by Alan DeNiro
"The Other Celia"
by Theodore Sturgeon
* Appreciation by John Joseph Adams
"Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death"
by James Tiptree, Jr
* Appreciation by Alex Saltman
"Baby, You Were Great"
by Kate Wilhelm
Here's my idea.
By my count there are 350+ stories archived at the site. I'm willing to bet that there are that many SF writers/critics/fans/what have you who have some sort of presence on the web. So I'm thinking, let's all of us write an appreciation of one of the stories.
It doesn't need to be something long--it could be a few paragraphs, or it could be in-depth; it could be a critical analysis or just a reaction to the story. Just something that focuses on the fiction and shows how much impact the site has had. Remember, this is an appreciation. A celebration. Pick a story you love, or discover a new one by reading through the archives. Discover for yourself just what we're losing. Then let's give it the best sendoff possible.
This project is going to be first come, first dibs; whoever comments first below or emails me (comments are emailed to me as well, so I'll know which has come first) will be attached to that story. It would be nice if we all made an effort to find some underappreciated gems rather than dogpiling on the award winners, but if a particular story leapt into your head, go for it. I'll update the list frequently to note which stories have been assigned. If your favorite gets snapped up, I would challenge you to read a story you haven't read before, and hopefully discover a new favorite. That's part of the idea here, to raise the visibility and readership of the site for however long it continues.
If you have questions about how we're going to do this, post them below as well. We'll be figuring this out as we go along.
Once you've written your appreciation, send it to me at snurri2000 @ yahoo.com. I'd appreciate it if folks could insert their own HTML coding if they can, but mostly it's the words we're looking for. I'll post the appreciations here and send you a link, and if you like you can post it on your own site with a link back here. Folks who don't have blogs or other web presences can just send their pieces to me and I'll post them here. I had originally set a late December deadline, but let's drop that. Sign up, and get it to me as soon as you can; if the rest of this year is a mess, wait until early in the new.
Also, as you comment, please leave your full name, so I'll know whose name to attach to the stories.
SCIFICTION is ending after five and a half years of great fiction. I don't think we should let this go without, at the very least, showing our appreciation for the site and the work Ellen Datlow and so many talented writers have done.
Here's my idea.
By my count there are 350+ stories archived at the site. I'm willing to bet that there are that many SF writers/critics/fans/what have you who have some sort of presence on the web. So I'm thinking, let's all of us write an appreciation of one of the stories.
It doesn't need to be something long--it could be a few paragraphs, or it could be in-depth; it could be a critical analysis or just a reaction to the story. Just something that focuses on the fiction and shows how much impact the site has had. Remember, this is an appreciation. A celebration. Pick a story you love, or discover a new one by reading through the archives. Discover for yourself just what we're losing. Then let's give it the best sendoff possible.
This project is going to be first come, first dibs; whoever comments first below or emails me (comments are emailed to me as well, so I'll know which has come first) will be attached to that story. It would be nice if we all made an effort to find some underappreciated gems rather than dogpiling on the award winners, but if a particular story leapt into your head, go for it. I'll update the list frequently to note which stories have been assigned. If your favorite gets snapped up, I would challenge you to read a story you haven't read before, and hopefully discover a new favorite. That's part of the idea here, to raise the visibility and readership of the site for however long it continues.
If you have questions about how we're going to do this, post them below as well. We'll be figuring this out as we go along.
Once you've written your appreciation, send it to me at snurri2000 @ yahoo.com. I'd appreciate it if folks could insert their own HTML coding if they can, but mostly it's the words we're looking for. I'll post the appreciations here and send you a link, and if you like you can post it on your own site with a link back here. Folks who don't have blogs or other web presences can just send their pieces to me and I'll post them here. I had originally set a late December deadline, but let's drop that. Sign up, and get it to me as soon as you can; if the rest of this year is a mess, wait until early in the new.
Also, as you comment, please leave your full name, so I'll know whose name to attach to the stories.
So, without further ado, the list:
The Dope Fiend
by Lavie Tidhar
* Appreciation by Jason Sizemore
Boz
by Kristine Kathryn Rush
* Appreciation by Paul Oppenheimer
The Great Wall of Mexico
by John Sladek
The Emperor
by Lucius Shepard
Star Light, Star Bright
by Alfred Bester
The King of Where-I-Go
by Howard Waldrop
The Man Who Would be Kong
by Andrew Fox
Stu
by Bruce McAllister
The Man Who Never Forgot
by Robert Silverberg
* Appreciation by Scott M. Sandridge
Different Flesh
by Claude Lalumière
* Appreciation by Anna Tambour
The Beautiful People
by Robert Bloch
* Appreciation by Mikal Trimm
Man for the Job
by Robert Reed
The Horse of a Different Color (That You Rode in On)
by Howard Waldrop
* Appreciation by Lois Tilton
All the Sounds of Fear
by Harlan Ellison®
* Appreciation by CJ Hurtt
Bears Discover Smut
by Michael Bishop
* Appreciation by Elizabeth Bear
Painwise
by James Tiptree, Jr.
* Appreciation by Moira Russell
The Serial Murders
by Kim Newman
* Appreciation by Tansy Rayner Roberts
The Water Sculptor
by George Zebrowski
The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Home From the Stars
by Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold
* Appreciation by Timothy Mahoney
Long Cold Day
by Elizabeth Bear
* Appreciation by Haddayr Copley-Woods
Under the Hollywood Sign
by Tom Reamy
Panacea
by Jason Stoddard
* Appreciation by Adam Rakunas
Parallax
by Laird Barron
* Appreciation by Chris Dodson
Anyway
by M. Rickert
* Appreciation by Rick Bowes
To Be Continued...
by Robert Silverberg
Is There Life After Rehab?
by Pat Cadigan
* Appreciation by Toni McGee Causey
A Life in the Day of...
by Frank M. Robinson
Abimagique
by Lucius Shepard
* Appreciation by Sue Lange
The Christmas Count
by David B. Coe
* Appreciation by Christopher Rowe
The Tenants
by William Tenn
Appreciation by Nancy O. Greene
Gauging Moonlight
by E. Catherine Tobler
* Appreciation by Patrick Samphire
Calypso In Berlin
by Elizabeth Hand
* Appreciation by Jana Phipps
Come On, Wagon
by Zenna Henderson
* Appreciation by Suzette Haden Elgin
Heavy Lifting
by Suzy McKee Charnas
The Starry Night
by Barry N. Malzberg and Jack Dann
* Appreciation by E. Sedia
Mouse
by Fredric Brown
* Appreciation by Gary Wassner
There's a Hole in the City
by Richard Bowes
* Appreciation by Mary Rickert
Diamond Girls
by Louise Marley
* Appreciation by Nadine Armstrong
Transformer
by Chad Oliver
The Being of It All
by Carol Emshwiller
* Appreciation by Tom Barlow
The Scribble Mind
by Jeffrey Ford
* Appreciation by Jeremy Tolbert
The White King's Dream
by Elizabeth A. Lynn
Song of the Black Dog
by Kit Reed
* Appreciation by Gregory Frost
The Girl in the Fabrilon
by Marly Youmans
Black Country
by Charles Beaumont
* Appreciation by Derek Johnson
And the Deep Blue Sea
by Elizabeth Bear
Heads Down, Thumbs Up
by Gavin J. Grant
* Appreciation by Jeff VanderMeer
Brown Robert
by Terry Carr
Passing of the Minotaurs
by Rjurik Davidson
* Appreciation by E. Catherine Tobler
Guys Day Out
by Ellen Klages
* Appreciation by Robert Cook
The Sea Was Wet as Wet Can Be
by Gahan Wilson
* Appreciation by Lynda E. Rucker
Rocket Fall
by David Prill
* Appreciation by David Herter
Vanishing Act
by E. Catherine Tobler
Space-time for Springers
by Fritz Leiber
* Appreciation by E. Sedia
Hidden Paradise
by Robert Reed
The Spear Carrier
by A.M. Dellamonica
* Appreciation by Paul Abbamondi
They Don't Make Life Like They Used To
by Alfred Bester
* Appreciation by Pam Noles
Invisible
by Steve Rasnic Tem
* Appreciation by Keith Demanche
Little Faces
by Vonda N. McIntyre
* Appreciation by Liz Henry
The Yellow Pill
by Rog Phillips
* Appreciation by Sheila Williams
Jane
by Marc Laidlaw
* Appreciation by Brian Overton
Hell Notes
by M.K. Hobson
* Appreciation by Eugie Foster
Familiar Pattern
by A. Bertram Chandler
Matricide
by Lucy Sussex
A Man of Light
by Jeffrey Ford
* Appreciation by Bob Urell
Beam Us Home
by James Tiptree, Jr.
* Appreciation by Meghan McCarron
The Five Cigars Of Abu Ali
by Eric Schaller
* Appreciation by Trent Hergenrader
Follow Me Light
by Elizabeth Bear
Gather Blue Roses
by Pamela Sargent
* Appreciation by Rebecca Gold
Nocturne
by J.R. Dunn
Luciferase
by Bruce Sterling
* Appreciation by Richard Butner
Transfer
by Barry N. Malzberg
* Appreciation by Keith Ferrell
Clownette
by Terry Dowling
* Appreciation by Laird Barron
Changing the Guard
by Matthew Claxton
Two Weeks in August
Frank M. Robinson
* Appreciation by Colleen Mondor
The Dragons of Summer Gulch
by Robert Reed
* Appreciation by Sarah Prineas
Super 8
by Terry Bisson
Free Dirt
by Charles Beaumont
All of Us Can Almost...
by Carol Emshwiller
Of Imaginary Airships and Minuscule Matter
by Gary W. Shockley
Bagatelle
by John Varley
* Appreciation by Chelsea Polk
Hula Ville
by James P. Blaylock
* Appreciation by Amy Sterling Casil
We Have Always Spoken Panglish
by Suzette Haden Elgin
* Appreciation by Sarah Rayne Trick
A Kingdom by the Sea
by Gardner Dozois
Q
by John Grant
* Appreciation by Martin Lewis
Soho Golem
by Kim Newman
* Appreciation by Derek Hill
View from a Height
by Joan D. Vinge
* Appreciation by Aimee Amodio
Ruby, in the Storm
by A.M. Dellamonica
The Wolf-man of Alcatraz
by Howard Waldrop
* Appreciation by Chris Barnes
Allamagoosa
by Eric Frank Russell
* Appreciation by Lou Antonelli
Can These Bones Live?
by Manly Wade Wellman
* Appreciation by Jason S. Ridler
Left of the Dial
by Paul Witcover
* Appreciation by Nathan Ballingrud
Bulldozer
by Laird Barron
* Appreciation by John Langan
God's Hooks!
by Howard Waldrop
* Appreciation by Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon
Beautiful Stuff
by Susan Palwick
The Key
by Ilsa J. Bick
A Crowd of Shadows
by Charles L. Grant
The Tang Dynasty Underwater Pyramid
by Walter Jon Williams
* Appreciation by Liz Batty
Volunteers
by Alex Irvine
Among the Dead
by Edward Bryant
Jumpers
by Mary Rosenblum
The Anatomist's Apprentice
by Matthew Claxton
* Appreciation by Mahesh Raj Mohan
Aye, and Gomorrah
by Samuel R. Delany
* Appreciation by Hal Duncan
Leviathan Wept
by Daniel Abraham
* Appreciation by Sue ?
Shadow Twin
by Gardner Dozois, George RR Martin and Daniel Abraham
The Girl Had Guts
by Theodore Sturgeon
* Appreciation by Cat Rambo
Gliders Though They Be
by Carol Emshwiller
The Best Christmas Ever
by James Patrick Kelly
* Appreciation by Deborah Coates
Paul's Treehouse
by Gene Wolfe
The First Commandment
by Gregory Benford
Family Bed
by Kit Reed
Un Bel Di
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
* Appreciation by Darja Malcolm-Clarke
The Voluntary State
by Christopher Rowe
* Appreciation by Susan Marie Groppi
Elvis in the Attic
by Catherine M. Morrison
* Appreciation by Dan Hartland
The Dandelion Girl
by Robert F. Young
Flight Risk
by Marc Laidlaw
On Display Among the Lesser
by Carol Emshwiller
Sin's Doorway
by Manly Wade Wellman
* Appreciation by Justin Howe
This Tragic Glass
by Elizabeth Bear
* Appreciation by Heather K. Ward
The Baum Plan For Financial Independence
by John Kessel
* Appreciation by Mike Bailey and Chris Dodson
The Little Lamb
by Fredric Brown
King Solomon's Ring
by Roger Zelazny
* Appreciation by Nicholas Whyte
The Three Unknowns
by Severna Park
* Appreciation by Merrie Haskell
Five Guys Named Moe
by Sean Klein
Ballenger's People
by Kris Neville
Articles of a Personal Nature
by Deborah Coates
* Appreciation by Stephanie Burgis
Inappropriate Behavior
by Pat Murphy
Twilla
by Tom Reamy
Zora and the Zombie
by Andy Duncan
* Appreciation by Andy Wolverton
Scout's Honor
by Terry Bisson
The Stare
by John Wyndham
* Appreciation by Gavin J. Grant
Inside Outside
by Michaela Roessner
House of the Future
by Richard Butner
* Appreciation by Michael Kelly
The Prize of Peril
by Robert Sheckley
* Appreciation by John Kessel
Peregrines
by Suzy McKee Charnas
Nutball Season
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Minnesota Gothic
by Thomas M. Disch
The Keepers of the House
by Lester Del Rey
Liar's House
by Lucius Shepard
* Appreciation by Robert Cook
My Father's Club
by Michael Libling
And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon
by Paul Di Filippo
The Periodic Table of Science Fiction
by Michael Swanwick
* Appreciation by Greg van Eekhout
Child of the Stones
by Paul McAuley
The Golem
by Avram Davidson
* Appreciation by E.C. Myers
It's All True
by John Kessel
* Appreciation by Gwenda Bond
D = R x T
by Howard Waldrop
* Appreciation by Catherine Morrison AKA Chance
The Fellow who Married the Maxill Girl
by Ward Moore
The Woman in the Cherry-Red Convertible by the Platinum Sea
by Ilsa J. Bick
At the Mouth of the River of Bees
by Kij Johnson
* Appreciation by Hannah Wolf Bowen
The Transcendent Tigers
by R.A. Lafferty
* Appreciation by Mike Morrow
Ancestor Money
by Maureen F. McHugh
* Appreciation by Kristin Livdahl
Caught in the Organ Draft
by Robert Silverberg
It Walks in Beauty
by Chan Davis
* Appreciation by Elizabeth Thomas
Greetings
by Terry Bisson
Like, Need, Deserve
by Robert Reed
The View from Endless Scarp
by Marta Randall
* Appreciation by Pat Lundrigan
A Walk in the Garden
by Lucius Shepard
* Appreciation by David Moles
Threads
by Jessica Reisman
* Appreciation by Bradley Denton
Thirty Days Had September
by Robert F. Young
Flowers on Their Bridles, Hooves in the Air
by Glen Hirshberg
* Appreciation by John Langan
Daughter of the Monkey God
by M.K. Hobson
* Appreciation by Jayaprakash Sathyamurthy
What Now, Little Man?
by Mark Clifton
You Go Where It Takes You
by Nathan Ballingrud
* Appreciation by Lucius Shepard
Big House on the Prairie
by David Prill
David's Daddy
by Rosel George Brown
Angels and You Dogs
by Kathleen Ann Goonan
A Full Member of the Club
by Bob Shaw
Touchstone
by Terry Carr
Jailwise
by Lucius Shepard
* Appreciation by Ben Peek
The Man Who Counts
by William Barton
* Appreciation by Simon Bisson
When I Was Miss Dow
by Sonya Dorman
* Appreciation by F. Brett Cox
The Book of Martha
by Octavia E. Butler
* Appreciation by Mary Madewell
The Fate of Nations
by James Morrow
High Weir
by Samuel R. Delany
* Appreciation by Matthew Cheney
The Eyes of America
by Geoffrey A. Landis
The Third Part
by Barry N. Malzberg
Temperature Days on Hawthorne Street
by Charles L. Grant
In The Blood
by Ilsa J. Bick
* Appreciation by Amber van Dyk
Unsportsmanlike Conduct
by Scott Westerfeld
* Appreciation by Grace Dugan
Frog Pond
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Frankenstein's Daughter
by Maureen F. McHugh
* Appreciation by Ted Chiang
Humpty Dumpty had a Great Fall
by Frank Belknap Long
* Appreciation by Nicholas Ozment
For Keeps
by J. R. Dunn
The Empire of Ice Cream
by Jeffrey Ford
* Appreciation by Rajan Khanna
Casablanca
by Thomas M. Disch
Death Penalty
by Leslie What
* Appreciation by Jude-Marie Green
Señor Volto
by Lucius Shepard
* Appreciation by Donna Royston
The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World
by Philip José Farmer
* Appreciation by Danny Adams
Castaway
by Gene Wolfe
* Appreciation by Spencer Pate
Boys
by Carol Emshwiller
* Appreciation by Jenn Reese
Let's Be Frank
by Brian W. Aldiss
Amnesty
by Octavia E. Butler
* Appreciation by Claire Light
Fairy Tale
by Gardner Dozois
* Appreciation by Jeffrey Ford
Party of the Two Parts
by William Tenn
Midnight at the Ichnologist's Ball
by Greg Beatty
More Spinned Against …
by John Wyndham
* Appreciation by Kathryn Allen
Protection
by Robert Sheckley
* Appreciation by Joyce Bent
Jury Service
by Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow
* Appreciation by Chris Nakashima-Brown
Waiting for Billy Star
by Tom Reamy
Intruders
by J.R. Dunn
Winters are Hard
by Steven Popkes
The Queen of Pig Island
by Gerald Kersh
On Bookstores, Burners, and Origami
by Jason Wittman
* Appreciation by Colleen Mondor
Flash Point
by Gardner Dozois
Godfather Death
by Richard Bowes
The Wages of Syntax
by Ray Vukcevich
* Appreciation by Jay Lake
The Screwfly Solution
by Raccoona Sheldon
* Appreciation by Ide Cyan
Shipbreaker
by Paul Di Filippo
* Appreciation by Jack Mierzwa
I Saw the Light
by Terry Bisson
Mrs. Pigafetta Swims Well
by Reginald Bretnor
It Becomes Necessary
by Ward Moore
Doctor Pretorius and the Lost Temple
by Paul McAuley
A Flock of Birds
by James Van Pelt
* Appreciation by Alex Wilson
The Women Men Don't See
by James Tiptree, Jr.
* Appreciation by Maureen Kincaid Speller
Voice of Steel
by Sean McMullen
What Mattered Was Sleep
by Patrick O'Leary
Melodies Played upon Cold, Dark Worlds
by Robert Reed
Fear of Strangers
by Dave Hutchinson
Cordle To Onion To Carrot
by Robert Sheckley
* Appreciation by Georgiana Lee
The Names of All the Spirits
by J. R. Dunn
Some Other Time
by Ray Vukcevich
What I Didn't See
by Karen Joy Fowler
* Appreciation by Trent Walters
Clerical Error
by Mark Clifton
Hop-Friend
by Terry Carr
In Green's Dominion
by Dale Bailey
The Last Big Sin
by Kit Reed
Josephine
by Carol Emshwiller
* Appreciation by Susan Shell Winston
The Most Famous Little Girl in the World
by Nancy Kress
* Appreciation by Steven Francis Murphy
Jemima
by A. R. Morlan
The Children's Crusade
by Robert Reed
The Geezenstacks
by Fredric Brown
Scuffle
by Dave Hutchinson
Jimmy Guang's House of Gladmech
by Alex Irvine
Carcinoma Angels
by Norman Spinrad
* Appreciation by River Curtis-Stanley
Swiftly
by Adam Roberts
Emerald Street Expansions
by Lucius Shepard
* Appreciation by Jean-Daniel Breque
The Funeral
by Kate Wilhelm
The Disinterred
by Mark W. Tiedemann
Thanksgiving
by Leslie What
Around the Curve of a Cosmos
by Gregory Benford
Three Times over the Falls
by A.M. Dellamonica
In for a Penny, or, The Man Who Believed in Himself
by James P. Blaylock
* Appreciation by Karen Meisner
The Discharge
by Christopher Priest
* Appreciation by Paul Kincaid
Outside
by Brian W. Aldiss
Water Master
by Carol Emshwiller
* Appreciation by Jack Mierzwa
Auto-da-Fé
by Roger Zelazny
* Appreciation by Jason Stoddard
The Thousand Cuts
by Ian Watson
* Appreciation by Mike Allen
Over Yonder
by Lucius Shepard
* Appreciation by Tim Pratt
Life on Earth
by Pat Cadigan
The Heat Death of The Universe
by Pamela Zoline
* Appreciation by Alison Page
Grandmother Mist
by William R. Eakin
* Appreciation by Pam McNew
Brink
by Gregory Benford
Struwwelpeter
by Glen Hirshberg
* Appreciation by Nathan Ballingrud
Days Red and Green
by Richard Bowes
Bad Medicine
by Robert Sheckley
* Appreciation by Jason Boog
The Girl Who Ate Garbage
by Jessica Reisman & A.M. Dellamonica
* Appreciation by Deborah Biancotti
The Dread and Fear of Kings
by Richard Paul Russo
* Appreciation by Kev McVeigh
Men without Bones
by Gerald Kersh
* Appreciation by Sarah Monette
From the Walls of Irezumi
by A.R. Morlan
Small Houses
by James P. Blaylock
* Appreciation by Amy Sterling Casil
How Beautiful With Banners
by James Blish
Non-Disclosure Agreement
by Scott Westerfeld
* Appreciation by Darby M. Dixon III
Light of Other Days
by Bob Shaw
* Appreciation by Graham Sleight
AZTECHS
by Lucius Shepard
* Appreciation by James Palmer
The Market in Aliens
by Barry N. Malzberg
Neutrino Drag
by Paul Di Filippo
* Appreciation by Claude Lalumière
Charlie's Angels
by Terry Bisson
* Appreciation by John Borneman
Consider Her Ways
by John Wyndham
The Black Heart
by Patrick O'Leary
Shooting the Moon
by Geoffrey A. Landis
Standing in His Light
by Kage Baker
The Other Real World
by Howard Waldrop
* Appreciation by Douglas Lain
Bernie the Faust
by William Tenn
His Own Back Yard
by James P. Blaylock
* Appreciation by Michael Jasper
Discreet Phenomena
by Dave Hutchinson
Tomb Tapper
by James Blish
Beyond the End of Time
by Michael Cassutt
Floating In Lindrethool
by Jeffrey Ford
* Appreciation by Trent Hergenrader
No Fire Burns
by Avram Davidson
Russian Vine
by Simon Ings
* Appreciation by Abigail Nussbaum
The Hat Trick
by Fredric Brown
New Light on the Drake Equation
by Ian R. MacLeod
* Appreciation by Niall Harrison
Copperhead
by Gene Wolfe
Refugees from Nulongwe
by M. Shayne Bell
* Appreciation by Rhonda S. Garcia
The Lagan Fishers
by Terry Dowling
Bad Animals
by John W. Randal
Cat in the Box
by A.R. Morlan
* Appreciation by Elizabeth Genco
Five Miles from Pavement
by Steven Utley
One Horse Town
by Howard Waldrop and Leigh Kennedy
* Appreciation by Kev McVeigh
Editing for Content
by Gavin J. Grant
Silent Her
by Barry B. Longyear
Cucumber Gravy
by Susan Palwick
The Quicksilver Kid
by Richard Bowes
More Adventures on Other Planets
by Michael Cassutt
* Appreciation by Rich Horton
The Scab's Progress
by Paul Di Filippo and Bruce Sterling
The House the Blakeneys Built
by Avram Davidson
The Meaning of the Word
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol
by Elizabeth Hand
* Appreciation by Jonathan Strahan
The Dance of the Changer and the Three
by Terry Carr
A Cold Dish
by Lisa Tuttle
* Appreciation by Mélanie Fazi
The Despoblado
by Steven Utley
When It Changed
by Joanna Russ
* Appreciation by Kameron Hurley
Tomorrow Town
by Kim Newman
The Flyers of Gy: An Interplanary Tale
by Ursula K. Le Guin
* Appreciation by Christopher Barzak
Belling Martha
by Leigh Kennedy
* Appreciation by Bill McCloud
The Pottawatomie Giant
by Andy Duncan
* Appreciation by Jason Erik Lundberg
The Far Oasis
by Jeffrey Ford
Corona
by Samuel R. Delany
* Appreciation by Sheree Renée Thomas
The Other Side
by James P. Blaylock
* Appreciation by Mark Gerrits
Nevada
by A. M. Dellamonica
The Man Who Loved the Faioli
by Roger Zelazny
The Origin of Truth
by Tim Lebbon
* Appreciation by Nick Mamatas
Wetlands Preserve
by Nancy Kress
* Appreciation by David B. Coe
Descending
by Thomas M. Disch
* Appreciation by John Schoffstall
Birdy Girl
by Robert Reed
* Appreciation by Erin Hoffman
To Bell The Cat
by Joan D. Vinge
* Appreciation by Sarah Prineas
From the Files of the Time Rangers
by Richard Bowes
* Appreciation by Charles Coleman Finlay
The Real World
by Steven Utley
* Appreciation by Russell B. Farr
A Wind Is Rising
by Robert Sheckley
Tir-na-nOg
by Dave Hutchinson
Ciné Rimettato
by A. R. Morlan
Partial Eclipse
by Graham Joyce
* Appreciation by JoAnn Cox
Winter Quarters
by Howard Waldrop
* Appreciation by Deborah Layne
Goddesses
by Linda Nagata
* Appreciation by Pete Tillman
Dune: Nighttime Shadows on Open Sand
by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
The Cure for Everything
by Severna Park
Castle in the Desert: Anno Dracula 1977
by Kim Newman
Chimera
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The Ugly Chickens
by Howard Waldrop
* Appreciation by Rose Fox
Malthusian's Zombie
by Jeffrey Ford
* Appreciation by Elad Haber
The War of the Worlds
by James P. Blaylock
* Appreciation by Robert Burke Richardson
Freeing the Angels
by Pat Cadigan and Chris Fowler
* Appreciation by Rochita C. Loenen-Ruiz
Stories no longer archived:
"Come Lady Death"
by Peter Beagle
"The Animal Fair"
by Robert Bloch
"They Bite"
by Anthony Boucher
"The Pink Caterpillar"
by Anthony Boucher
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"
by Harlan Ellison®
* Appreciation by E.C. Myers
"And he Built a Crooked House"
by Robert Heinlein
* Appreciation by Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon
"The Mindworm"
by C.M. Kornbluth
"Line to Tomorrow"
by Henry Kuttner
"Nine Hundred Grandmothers"
R.A. Lafferty
"Land of the Great Horses"
by R.A. Lafferty
"Narrow Valley"
by R.A. Lafferty
"Slow Tuesday Night"
by R. A. Lafferty
"Dance of the Dead"
by Richard Matheson
"The Ship Who Sang"
by Anne McCaffrey
"Casey Agonistes"
by Richard McKenna
"Something Bright"
by Zenna Henderson
"One of those Days"
by William F. Nolan
"The Detweiler Boy"
Tom Reamy
"The Pope of the Chimps"
by Robert Silverberg
"Sundance"
by Robert Silverberg
"Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons"
by Cordwainer Smith
* Appreciation by Alan DeNiro
"The Other Celia"
by Theodore Sturgeon
* Appreciation by John Joseph Adams
"Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death"
by James Tiptree, Jr
* Appreciation by Alex Saltman
"Baby, You Were Great"
by Kate Wilhelm
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"Bagatelle" By John Varley:
mineminemineminemine!
Elizabeth, Chelsea, so noted.
"The Origin of Truth" by Tim Lebbon
"The Pottawatomie Giant" by Andy Duncan for me!
"Passing of the Minotaurs" by Rjurik Davidson. :)
Nick, Jason, Catherine, check, check, check.
I want them all! But I'll take Delany's "High Weir".
On Bookstores, Burners & Origami please!
Since I've already got some comments on KJF's "What I Didn't See" I'll take that one. I'd probably do others that people don't want later.
So many excellent stories to choose from -- I'll take Maureen's "Ancestor Money"
Good idea.
There are a dozen I want, and I'm short on time this week, so I won't pick one yet; I'll just write comments when I can, and I'll drop you a note when/if I manage to do it.
Btw, there are several stories where the links are missing the essential "http://www.scifi.com" at the beginning, so clicking the link leads to a page-not-found error. (The Wellman story, for example, and several on either side of that one.)
The Serial Murders by Kim Newman, please.
HTML should be fixed now. Thanks, Jed.
List is updated through Tansy, who I'm assuming is Tansy Rayner Roberts? I can't find your full name from your link; let me know if I'm mistaken.
Dibs on "Little Faces" by Vonda McIntyre.
That was me for "Little Faces". Whoops!
Hey dude. I something of an exegesis on Ray Vukcevich's "The Wages of Syntax" here:
http://www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10033#b1
I don't think I could better that...
Hi Dave - yep, I am Tansy Rayner Roberts. Sorry for that!
Gotcha, Liz.
Jay, I sent you an email.
Tansy, I was pretty sure it was you, but I didn't want to get it wrong!
Just occurred to me that several stories (mostly or all reprints) have been taken down since their publication. Might be cool to get a list of those (from Ellen, maybe?) and include them. (At least, I don't think those ones are included in your list, but I could be wrong.)
"Non-Disclosure Agreement" by Scott Westerfeld.
The Real World by Steven Utley if I may.
Russell B. Farr
"Grandmother Mist" by William R. Eakin is what I'd like, please.
Pam McNew
i'd like to snag 'jailwise' by lucius shepard, thanks.
I'd like Tiptree's The Women Men Don't See if that's not already taken
Bagsy "King Solomon's Ring", by Roger Zelazny.
I'll take Rick Bowes "From the Files of the Time Rangers".
I'll take This Tragic Glass by Elizabeth Bear, please :)
I'd like to do "Light of Other Days" by Bob Shaw.
I'd like to take "Protection" by Robert Sheckley, please.
Dibs on "Descending" by Thomas M. Disch.
I'd like Elizabeth Bear's "This Tragic Glass," please.
Oops, my mistake. "Tragic Glass" is taken.
How about "The Three Unknowns" by Severna Park?
What a lovely idea. I'd be happy to take "The Ugly Chickens", a favorite of mine from way way back.
Lucius Shepard, “A Walk in the Garden.”
Great idea. Even if the site weren't closing this sort of focus on short SF would be fascinating, but the cause makes it even better.
Is there a deadline for contributions?
My choices would be Richard Paul Russo's The Fear & Dread Of Kings
and Michaela Roessner's Inside Outside
What a great idea. I'd like James Tiptree Jr's "Painwise," please.
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If no one else has claimed it, I'll write an appreciation of "Gauging Moonlight" by E. Catherine Tobler. Hell, I've already reviewed it, so I won't have too much extra work to do. :)
OK, I've updated through Moira's post; Jeremy, sorry that Ben beat you to "Painwise," but I hope you'll decide to do another.
John, I've added "The Other Celia" and attached your name--I'll see about getting a list from Ellen. Thanks to you and Jed for the heads-up.
Rajan, if you'd like to be credited by your full name let me know. I've added my email to the original post.
Merrie, I've put you down for "The Three Unknowns."
Kev, I've put you down for the Russo story; I'd like to hold off on multiples from one person at this point, because I'm hoping we can get enough people to do a story each.
To that end, if y'all are willing to blog this effort I'd really appreciate it. Anyone who loves short speculative fiction and can string a few sentences together is welcome.
Great idea, Dave!!
I hereby claim
The Dragons of Summer Gulch
by Robert Reed
"Articles of a Personal Nature", by Deborah Coates, please!
This is such a lovely idea. I can't think of a nicer tribute to SCIFICTION.
I can probably figure out what we had to take down. The only original currently down is Suzy McKee Charnas's "Peregrines" temporarily because it's in her recent collection.
Re: those classics that have been removed-they should have been completely removed from the server, not just the links --for legal reasons, of course. Aaaargh.
I don't know if I have time, but I can try to provide the titles/authors of those classics that are now gone.
"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" by Harlan was up, by the way.
Ellen
Dibs on Refugees from Nulongwe
by M. Shayne Bell
Ellen, thanks for visiting. I wasn't sure whether I wanted you to see this before it was all done, but it would be sort of hard to keep it that secret!
I've taken down the link for "The Other Celia" so as not to cause trouble. (I also added HE's story to the list.) If you have time to find the other titles that are no longer up, I'd love to add them.
. . . and we're updated through Keith. Note that I've been getting emails from some folks, so the comments are not necessarily a guide to what's available and what's not.
I've also already received the first piece, which will be going up later today. But please don't send everything in today! You have until December 20th.
I would like to write an appreciation of 'The Heat Death of the Universe' by Pamela Zoline, assuming it hasn't already been claimed.
"Aye, and Gomorrah" by Delany.
Thanks, Rajan, for the clarification.
We're updated through Deb, now--"The Best Christmas Ever" is yours; "The Voluntary State" has been snapped up via email by a certain editrix.
Thanks, everybody. And remember to tell your friends!
I'm told the word verification for comments is giving people headaches, so I've turned it off for now. Hopefully the spammers won't jump all over us . . .
Anyway
by M. Rickert
Rick Bowes
rickbowes@earthlink.net
"Anyway"
by M. Rickert
Rick Bowes
rickbowes@earthlink.net
"The Christmas Count" by David B. Coe, 'kay?
I'd like "Water Master," if it hasn't been claimed.
-Jack
Pam, Rick, Colonel Rowe, all so noted.
Jack, your full name is . . .?
I'd like "Amnesty" by Octavia E. Butler, please.
I'm also a little confused (as always.) Should we be posting these appreciations on our own blogs and then sending you the link? Or do we just email the appreciations to you? And where will we be able to read them?
I will write on "Senor Volto" by Lucius Shepard.
Hi, I'd like to claim "The Anatomist's Apprentice" by Matthew Claxton.
This is a great idea!
I'd like "Sin's Doorway" by Manly Wade Wellman.
- Justin Howe
Clare, email me your finished product, and I'll post it here and send you a link. I think it would be great for everyone to post them on their own blogs/sites as well, but that's up to each of you. Sorry for being unclear.
List updated through Justin. Keep 'em coming!
I'll take Russ's "When It Changed," if nobody else has nabbed it yet.
Haven't read it yet, but I'm a fan of Jim Van Pelt.
So I'll take "A Flock of Birds."
Great idea you've got here.
Alex.
Thought my last name would be displayed, sorry.
Alex Wilson.
I'll take "Soho Golem" by Kim Newman.
Derek Hill
Put me down for "The War of the Worlds" by James P. Blaylock please -- the first Sci Fiction story I ever read.
"House of the Future" by Richard Butner.
Michael Kelly
Figuratively speaking, I close my eyes and point to one story in my short list of a dozen or so...
Gahan Wilson's "The Sea Was as Wet as Wet Can Be," please, a long-time favorite.
How does one go about reading the appreciations?
I'll begin posting appreciations here later tonight; they will all appear here. The top post will move down and I'll put some of the information in the description for those who still want to sign up.
List should be current through Tom, by the way.
Sign me up for Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol. I'd also have done something for Pottawottamie Giant (I was on the WFA jury that year), but what they hey. Oh, and if you need something for The Baum Plan For Financial Independence
by John Kessel I could do that too.
The Most Famous Little Girl in the World by Nancy Kress.
I agree with other commentators, there are several I'd like to chose.
The Beautiful People by Robert Bloch, if it isn't too much trouble...(or already taken).
Mikal Trimm
The Wolf-Man of Alcatraz by Howard Waldrop, please.
I'd like The Tang Dynasty Underwater Pyramid by Walter Jon Williams, please.
More classics that were up and had to be removed after rights lapsed:
Come Lady Death by Peter Beagle
Free Dirt by Charles Beaumont
The Animal Fair by Robert Bloch
They Bite by Anthony Boucher
The Pink Caterpillar by Anthony Boucher
It Walks in Beauty by Chan Davis (with author's original text and ending for the first time)
And he Built a Crooked House by Robert Heinlein
The Mindworm by C.M. Kornbluth
Line to Tomorrow by Henry Kuttner
Nine Hundred Grandmothers R.A. Lafferty
Land of the Great Horses by R.A. Lafferty
Narrow Valley by R.A. Lafferty
Slow Tuesday Night by R. A. Lafferty
Dance of the Dead by Richard Matheson
The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey
Casey Agonistes by Richard McKenna
to be continued
Something Bright by Zenna Henderson
Actually, can I be greedy? Could I also do Howard Waldrop's "The King of Where I Go", which will be published in a week or two?
Jonathan
One of those Days by William F. Nolan
The Detweiler Boy Tom Reamy
Alamagoosa by Eric Frank Russell
The Pope of the Chimps by Robert Silverberg
Sundance by Robert Silverberg
Mother Hitton’s Littul Kittons by Cordwainer Smith
The Other Celia by Theodore Sturgeon ( I think someone already noted that this had been up)
Love is the Plan the Plan is Death by James Tiptree, Jr
Baby, You Were Great by Kate Wilhelm
Ellen
Thanks, Ellen, I've added those to the list.
Sue, could you email me or comment with your last name, so I can add it?
Jonathan, I'd like it if we could hold off on doubling up; if you'd like to change your choice, that would be fine, but I'm hopeful that we can get enough people to cover every story.
The posts have begun to appear; Jay Lake and Lois Tilton both have their pieces up. Don't think this means you all have to rush! A nice, steady trickle would be ideal :-)
Dave,
I feel really dumb, but where are the actual posts?
Ellen
Ellen, click on the blog title up top, or go directly here: http://edsfproject.blogspot.com . They should be at the top.
Thanks. Found it :-)
Ellen
If I could, I would like to lay claim to Marc Laidlaw's "Jane."
Brian
browriter.blogspot.com
"Jury Service" by Stross and Doctorow, bitte.
I'll take "Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death."
Brian, I apologize, but while I gather that your last name begins with an "O," that's as far as I get.
List is updated through Alex Saltman. Ben Peek's piece will be going up shortly.
'Death Penalty' by Leslie What, Appreciation by Jude-Marie Green (thanks, and splendid idea)
"When I Was Miss Dow" by Sonya Dorman.--F. Brett Cox
Btw, someone just reminded me of Michael Swanwick's Periodic table of Science Fiction :-)
Ellen
Jude-Marie, Brett, got you both. (Brett, great to see you, BTW.)
Ellen, Michael's "Periodic Table" was still in the archives when I pulled the list, so it's up for grabs . . .
I'd like to do Graham Joyce's "Partial Eclipse," which is no longer on the list, I believe. Cool idea. Thanks.
Jeff, someone's unfortunately spoken for that one; I've emailed you.
dave: I realize now I struck out on the joyce, is anyone doing Fairy Tale by Gardner Dozois?
Jeff: it's yours!
Dibs on "Panacea"! Um, please.
Uh, Dave, Waldrop's The Wolf-man of Alcatraz doesn't seem to be updated with my name against it...
I'll take "The Screwfly Solution".
Sorry about that, Chris: it should be corrected now.
Adam, I've added you.
And Ide, as well.
Auto-da-Fe, by Roger Zelazny, please. (Formative experience for the resident car nut here.)
"Calypso in Berlin" by Elizabeth Hand.
I claim it.
--Jana Phipps
This is a truly nice idea. But while you're all at it--
I've called for a mass write-in protest to SciFi.Com asking them to reconsider their decision to close down SciFiction--asking them to keep it and Ellen Datlow.
This may not make any difference at all but at least it will not happen without protest. I don't want them to be able to say that they shut that part of the site down and they didn't hear from anyone so obviously nobody cared.
it's also a great way to show your appreciation to Ellen Datlow for all those years of great science fiction. She has worked her butt off for this field, for writers and readers--she got the Hugo for best editor and SciFi.com got two Hugos besides that. This is a pretty lousy way to reward her hard work.
A few tips: hold the insults and obscenities. They don't read past the first one and they figure you're a crank. Also, threats never to visit the site again probably won't impress them. Instead, emphasize the vital part that written sf plays--after all, there would be no sf field and no SciFi Channel without it. The sf field is one of those things created by writers and readers, not by movies and TV shows. The movies and TV shows sprang from the written word.
Another tip: remind them of Ellen Datlow's accomplishments. In the past, she has brought a lot of major writers to broader notice--people like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. She has edited people like Joyce Carol Oates, Ruth Rendell, and Robert Silverberg.
In short, emphasize the positive and how much you like SciFiction. I mean, it's the ideal situation--readers get new fiction weekly for free and writers get paid. People who read SciFiction also read the rest of the site and support SciFi.com and the SciFi Channel. This is a good thing.
I've been urging everyone to do this and as I understand it, the SciFi.com people are at least reading the emails.
Cheers,
Pat
I think I'll take Simon Ings' "Russian Vine", please. It's been three or four years since I first read it and it still bothers me, but in a good way.
wget -r -np -nc -X /scifiction/story_images http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/
"There's a Hole in the City" by Richard Bowes, please.
Mary Rickert
Dave -- Sorry, I usually don't use my last name online. It's Overton, feel free to add it.
Thanks for that, Brian.
I've added Mary, Abigail, Jason and Jana.
And to coattail on Pat's comments: please do, if you haven't already, write to SciFi.com about this decision. It may well be that they never realized the impact the site has had. And yes, be respectful. Do what we're trying to do here; emphasize the positive about Ellen and the work she's put up.
OK, off the soapbox. We still need a lot of people to sign up, so poke your friends!
I'll take:
Cat in the Box
by A.R. Morlan
I'd like "The Golem" by Avram Davidson.
I'd like to do "The Man Who Counts" by William Barton.
"Men without Bones," if no one else has grabbed it yet.
"The Discharge" by Christopher Priest - if no-one else has bagged it.
List should be updated through Mr. Kincaid.
Three more pieces just went up; John Schoffstall on Thomas Disch, Chris Barzak on Ursula LeGuin, and Mikal Trimm on Robert Bloch. Go, read!
Dibs on "Allamagoosa" if its still unclaimed.
It's yours, Lou.
We're over 100 volunteers, but we need more than three times that! Please, if you haven't already, encourage others to get involved; writers, reviewers, editors, fans, booksellers, anyone. If you have a blog, it would be a great help to talk about this there if you haven't already.
Thanks, everyone!
Michael posted it a note about this over at Bookslut this morning - hopefully it will bring some more volunteers!
Colleen
I would like "Castaway" by Gene Wolfe, please.
"And He Built a Crooked House" by Robert Heinlein...
for Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon please!
List current through Dr. Phil.
Colleen, I saw that; between that and BoingBoing, I hope we'll get some more interested parties.
New pieces up: Tom Barlow on Carol Emshwiller, Alison Page on Pamela Zoline, Michael Kelly on Richard Butner. Check 'em out!
Michael Swanwick's Periodic Table, please?
"Boys" by Carol Emshwiller, please.
Thanks!
Jenn Reese
I would like The Book of Martha by Octavia Butler, please.
Greg, Jenn, Mary, I gotcha.
I would like to take "All The Sounds of Fear" by Harlan Ellison, please. CJ Hurtt
I would like "The Key" by Ilsa J. Bick
thanks :)
(amber van dyk)
I would like to appreciate Ray Lafferty: The Transcendent Tigers. Please and thank you. I mean really, thank you.
Mike Morrow
We should be current through Mike.
Links are being added to this post as the pieces appear.
Just now we have Timothy Mahoney on Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold, Elizabeth Bear on Michael Bishop, and Rajan Khanna on Jeffrey Ford. Enjoy!
Hi, I thought I commented yesterday, but now I can't find my comment--so just in case, I would like to do Chan Davis' "It Walks in Beauty," please.
-E(lizabeth) Thomas
Dave: Can I make a suggestion for the ED SF Project. So far all of the links go to the SciFi.com versions of stories. Unfortunately, some or all of those stories either have, or will be, removed eventually from the SciFi.com website.
Keeping that in mind, it would increase the lifespan and usefulness of The ED SF Project linked to versions of stories at The Internet Archive. I think this link (http://web.archive.org/web/20031204095331/http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/archive.html) should take you to most of them.
Hi. I'm Nadine Armstrong, and if noone has grabbed Louise Marley's Diamond Girls, I'd like it.
Another suggestion: after you post your appreciations here, copy them to the SciFi bulletin board. Let SciFi.com know.
Dibs on "Hell Notes" by M.K. Hobson pretty please. (With sugar even.)
I'd like to write something on The Spear Carrier by A.M. Dellamonica please. Thanks.
- Paul Abbamondi
Elizabeth, looks like there were two listings of the Chan Davis story; I've removed the duplicate and attached your name to the other.
Jonathan: that's a great suggestion. I'd like to check with Ellen about it, as there may be copyright/contractual issues involved, but in the long term this project won't mean a lot without the stories, so I'd like to do as you suggest.
Pat, I like that suggestion as well. I'm a bit swamped to do that myself, but if anyone would care to volunteer to cut-and-paste over to the SciFi.com bulletin boards . . . ?
Nadine, Eugie, and Paul have been added to the list.
"View from a Height" by Joan D. Vinge
(by Aimee Amodio)
Thank you for doing this. I just got my "We're taking SCIFICTION and going home!" letter yesterday. ;)
Count me down for Jeff Ford's "The Scribble Mind." I already wrote a long blog entry about this, and I can adapt it for your collection.
Aimee, you are added.
Three more pieces have gone up: Kathryn Allen on John Wyndham, Jeffrey Ford on Gardner Dozois, and Deborah Layne on Howard Waldrop. Keep 'em coming, folks!
Also, lest we forget, there's a new story up at SCI FICTION this week: Claude Lalumière's Different Flesh. Go check it out.
Sounds good, Jer; I've added you as well.
I'd like to take "The Thousand Cuts" by Ian Watson. Also willing to do "We Have Always Spoken Panglish" by Suzette Haden Elgin.
I'll do Shepard's "Over Yonder".
-Tim Pratt
I would love to do Suzette Haden Elgin's 'We Have Always Spoken Panglish," if that's all right.
(Mike Allen: If you must have it, I'll choose another story, no problem.)
Sarah Rayne Trick
Mike, I've given you "The Thousand Cuts," and Suzette Haden Elgin's story goes to Sarah. Tim, I've got you down for "Over Yonder."
New pieces up: Lou Antonelli on Eric Frank Russell, Jeremy Tolbert on Jeffrey Ford, and Sarah Monette on Gerald Kersh.
"You Go Where It Takes You" by Nathan Ballingrud
Lucius Shepard
If no one's taken it yet, I'd like Laird Barron's "Bulldozer."
Thanks for doing this.
John Langan
The project is a good idea. I would like to comment on Robert Sheckley's "The Prize of Peril" if it's not already spoken for.
Great! We are updated through Mr. Kessel. More pieces coming tomorrow.
I'd like to sign up for Michael Cassutt's "More Adventures on Other Planets". (My first two choices having been taken! Just as well, I'll be delighted to see what they say about the stories.)
--
Rich Horton
Rich,
We'd be happy to have pieces on any of the stories that have already been bagged for Short Form. Same goes for anyone else. Not that I want to poach people, do you one for here first!
Rich, it's yours.
Sorry for slow updates this morning; power outage! As a reward for your patience, we have four, count 'em four, pieces just up: Colleen Mondor on Jason Wittman, Rebecca Gold on Pamela Sargent, Rick Bowes on M(ary) Rickert, and Jean-Daniel Breque on Lucius Shepard. Go forth and peruse.
So, Dave, I'm probably being very stupid here but I don't see your e-mail address listed anywhere. How do I get the piece to you?
I'll do the Bisson stories and Di Filippo's Dish Ran Away as well.
Great project. Robert Reed's "Birdy Girl", please. =)
Keep an eye at Moorishgirl.com - I passed along the info to Laila and she should be posting on it next week. (Her site gets tons of visitors!)
Colleen
Erin and Toni added; I've emailed Trent; and thank you, Colleen, for the help.
New pieces up: Mary Madewell on Octavia Butler, Spencer Pate on Gene Wolfe, and E. Catherine Tobler on Rjurik Davidson.
The Other Side by James P. Blaylock, please.
"Josephine"
by Carol Emshwiller, please
Susan Shell Winston
Mark, Susan, you're both on the list, and thanks.
We'll put up a few more pieces tomorrow (assuming we get one or two more by then), but since it's the weekend and people are probably not as much online there likely won't be as much. As it's the weekend, though, I hope to have a lot more pieces to post by Monday-ish :-)
I'd like to do Jeffrey Ford's The Far Oasis please.
Alinta Thornton
Alinta, I've added you.
New pieces just up: Chris Barnes on Howard Waldrop, Keith Ferrell on Barry Malzberg, and Mahesh Raj Mohan on Matthew Claxton. Happy Sunday!
Hi,
I'd like "The View from Endless Scarp," by Marta Randal.
Pat Lundrigan
Pat, I've added you to the list.
New pieces this morning: Richard Butner on Bruce Sterling, and Justin Howe and Jason Ridler tag-teaming on Manly Wade Mellman.
More coming later.
More pieces up now: Paul Abbamondi on A.M. Dellamonica, Adam R. Rakunas on Jason Stoddard, and Kev McVeigh on Richard Paul Russo. Enjoy!
New pieces up today: Russell Farr on Steven Utley, Chris Nakashima-Brown on Stross and Doctorow, and Mike Morrow on R. A. Lafferty.
Posting will be sporadic the next few days as I head out of town to devour turkey and mashed potatoes, but we'll resume regular service on Monday. Thanks to all who have signed on so far; please keep on spreading the word!
Hello, may I have:
The Girl Who Ate Garbage
by Jessica Reisman & A.M. Dellamonica.
Thankee!
Deborah Biancotti
Deborah and Chris, you are now on The List.
Apologies for the lack of updates over the holiday weekend. New pieces; Melanie Fazi on Lisa Tuttle, Paul Kincaid on Christopher Priest, and Matthew Cheney on Samuel R. Delany. Also Brian Overton on Marc Laidlaw, John Kessel on Robert Sheckley, and Deborah Biancotti on Jessica Reisman & A.M. Dellamonica. Enjoy!
Hi Dave
Excellent project. I'll take Ellen Klages' Guys Day Out please.
Robert Cook
Robert, thanks for climbing on board.
New pieces up: Dr. Phil Kaldon on Heinlein, M. Rickert on Rick Bowes, and John Joseph Adams on Ted Sturgeon. Read, read! (And sign up, sign up!)
Robert/Bob, I've got you signed up.
That makes 150 participants so far; but we have lots more stories! So tell your friends, and notice that I've taken off the deadline. No deadline. Send these in as soon as you can, but it's not drop-dead end of the year. So no excuses for not snapping up a favorite story. OK? OK.
New pieces: Bradley Denton on Jessica Reisman, Mike Bailey and Chris Dodson on John Kessel, and Alex Wilson on James Van Pelt. Enjoy!
New pieces these past two days: E. Sedia on Fritz Leiber, Mike Jasper on Jim Blaylock, Anna Tambour on Claude Lalumiere, Bob Urell on Jeff Ford, Nathan Ballingrud on Glen Hirshberg, and Tim Pratt on Lucius Shepard.
Thanks to everyone for all the great stuff; keep it coming!
I'd like to do an appreciation for Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's "Un Bel Di," if it's not taken yet.
--Darja Malcolm-Clarke
Has anyone done "The Ship Who Sang" yet? If not, I'll do it.
Is there some way to add a general note of appreciation for the entire treasure-house of wonderful stories that was Scifiction? I would go in there and see some classic that sparked instant recognition, and think "I never thought I'd get to read that..." Then I'd browse the new ones-it was like opening Christmas presents.
I'll miss it.
Darja, you are on the List!
Lou, I'm holding off on allowing multiple pieces from any one person . . . though I'm seriously considering lifting that soon. I'll keep you posted.
Melissa, some of the pieces have been as much about the pleasure of being able to find classic works easily online -- in other words, they've been just as much about Ellen's work as about the specific story. That's taken place within the story-specific format, though, and I'd like to stick with that.
Just trying to make sure all the strories covered. Let me know if you need me
Just trying to get all stories covered. Let me know if you need it.
I appreciate that, Lou, and I certainly will let you know.
New today: Greg Frost on Kit Reed, Lucius Shepard on Nathan Ballingrud, and Gary Alan Wassner on Fredric Brown. Enjoy!
I'll take "Jury Service" by Doctorow and Stross, if no one else has claimed dibs.
Thanks very much for doing this, by the way.
Matthew Claxton
Actually, Matthew, that story's been spoken for; check out Chris Nakashima-Brown's appreciation, already posted. Can we interest you in another story?
New today: Greg van Eekhout on Michael Swanwick, David Herter on David Prill, and Niall Harrison on Ian R. Macleod.
Gentle nudge: I can only post these as fast as I get them. Keep 'em coming!
David,
Do you have a count on how many done and how many to go?
Ellen
Ellen: we have 353 stories (so far). 153 of those are spoken for, and 68 of the appreciations have already been posted.
Thanks. That's very cool!
Ellen
The pieces are still trickling in, as are new participants; welcome all! Please don't hesitate!
New stuff the past few days: Pat Lundrigan on Marta Randall, David B. Coe on Nancy Kress, Sue Lange on Lucius Shepard, Gavin J. Grant on John Wyndham, and Jenn Reese on Carol Emshwiller. Read the appreciations, read the stories!
Also, for those of you who haven't yet settled on a story (all 200 of you), keep an eye on the top of the list, which is being updated with new stories as they show up at SCI FICTION. This week, a new Lucius Shepard story, last week a new Howard Waldrop and a classic from Alfred Bester. How can you resist?
May I do "Carcinoma Angels" by Norman Spinrad? That's an old favorite that I have loved since my early teens.
If it's not too late, I'd like to do the appreciation for Beaumont's "Black Country."
River, Derek, so noted; and welcome.
New today: Danny Adams on Philip Jose Farmer, Suzette Haden Elgin on Zenna Henderson. Check it out!
No one's taken "Slow Tuesday Night" yet? I will, now that I've finished my unexpectedly difficult and lengthy appreciation for "The Ugly Chickens" (en route to you shortly).
To Be Continued by Robert Silverberg has a very unique concept of story and is well executed and interesting. Especially appreciated the twist that wasn't revealed until the end.
Susan @ Spinning http://smgct.typepad.com/spinning
To Be Continued by Robert Silverberg is a great concept, and I especially liked the twist which was not revealed until the end. Susan at Spinning http://smgct.typepad.com/spinning
12 20 05
I just hope the Ellen Datlow
Scince Fiction project is done
in book form so it's much more
readily available to people like
myself(A 56 year old science
fiction FANatic) who are not even
remotely comfortable with computers!
Thanx muchly! and I look forward to
seeing your finished product.
All the best...
Donald Ducker
Hi, I just read about this project on the OWW list, and would love to write an appreciation of Freeing the Angels, if it's still available.
Thanks.
Rochita
Susan, thanks for your comment, and I hope you'll sign up to do a full appreciation of the Silverberg story.
Donald, thanks very much for the kind words :-)
Rochita, I've added you to the list!
And remember, folks, the deadline's gone, so keep on signing up and keep on sending your pieces in! Several more have been posted in the past few days, and many more to come!
Give me "The Man Who Never Forgot" if availabe.
Scott, it's yours!
I've put up a few new pieces today, but updates may be sporadic through Tuesday as I am traveling. Happy Holidays to everyone!
Happy Holidays, Dave! And thank you -and all the contributors--again.
Ellen
Hi Dave,
I'd like Robert Sheckley's Cordle To Onion To Carrot please.
I write a weekly entertainment column and I focused on about 25 of these stories for my readers this month. Narrowing it down even more to just one is so hard!
Thanks very much,
Georgiana
Georgiana, I've added you.
As some of you have no doubt noticed, the last SCI FICTION story went live today. Now is a good time to bug your friends who haven't yet picked out a story to write on; they've got a complete set to choose from!
"Clownette" by Dowling, please.
Laird Barron
It's yours, Laird!
Happy New Year to everyone!
Happy New Year!
I'd love to take a crack at Bad Medicine by the greatly missed Robert Sheckley...
I would like to write an appreciation of Charlie's Angels
by Terry Bisson.
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