Here’s my last story of the year, which is also a Christmas letter! Merry Christmas from the Bremmers!
As I say in the author notes, I got to put a lot of stuff I like in a very short story. You can do that! No one stops you! I will do it more next year!
New poem out today, Dante on the Metro in Mobius.
I wrote this because I miss the Montreal Metro. I miss visiting other people’s public transit in general, but the Montreal Metro, man, the way it’s warm when you rush down out of the cold to catch your train, the way you run into multiple Celine Dion cover buskers in one day, the whole of it, absolutely the entire thing. Again someday. But meanwhile this.
I have a new story out in Daily Science Fiction today, Michigan Seems Like a Dream to Me Now.
Some of you will recognize the title as coming from Simon & Garfunkel’s “America,” but the story takes place pretty far from America, and getting farther every minute….
It’s apparently a Double Dell Month, the second I’ve ever had! That is to say, I have stories in both Asimov’s and Analog. I told you about the Asimov’s story when the author copies arrived, but now I have the ones for Analog as well–my story is Out of the Red Lands, and it is available in Analog now!
And if that’s not enough for you, Rich Horton’s Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2021 is out too! It features my BCS story “The Past, Like a River In Flood” but also dozens of stories from friends and colleagues. An embarrassment of riches. Go, read, enjoy!
Here’s a a poem I wrote, in this month’s Uncanny, for those of us who find that poking around in family history is not much like it looked in Frozen 2: Identity.
I’ve now got the author copies for the current (Sept/Oct 2022) issue of Asimov’s, in which you can find my story “Bonus Footage!” (Available here in print or digital versions.) It’s a travel show in space! It’s a story about sensible Girl Scouts and the adults around them! It’s got a quite happy ending in which no one is eaten by the native flora, you hope!
Watch this space for more about this story….
New story out today in Beneath Ceaseless Skies: The Splinters of Our Bond!
I have feelings about wood witches. And also I have feelings about vigilantes in fiction. And it all got wrapped up with a sibling relationship and the complications of “we only have each other” and…this is the result, and I hope you enjoy it.
Today’s new story is in Nature Futures, Family Network.
This one was inspired by my grandmother, though it isn’t the sort of story she’ll ever probably read or enjoy. When old farm families and artificial intelligence collide…or proliferate….
Don’t panic! At least not about criticism of your fiction. I have a new essay out in Uncanny today, From Panic to Process: What Taking Criticism Actually Means.
This is a bigger topic than one essay could hold, so I have all sorts of further ideas about fans taking gracefully criticism of works they love dearly, organizing and sub-organizing types of critique notes, and more. But this has the beginnings of the “taking criticism” conversation for me.
I’m very pleased to tell you that one of my stories from 2020 (“The Past, Like a River in Flood”) has been chosen by Rich Horton for inclusion in his Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2021 Edition. The table of contents can be seen on Rich’s blog, here.
When I wrote that story, I was thinking about natural disasters I had witnessed, some quite close up, and some institutional failures they’d left in their wake. I didn’t really want a story about institutional failure and its human cost to be quite as timely as it turned out to be, but…I’m glad the story resonated, all the same, and I’m still very proud of it. And so happy to be in a volume with so many other stories I enjoyed, and some that are new to me, some I’ll be glad to discover.