My newest southern gothic,“TVA Baby,” is up on TOR.COM, where it seems to have caused a certain consternation. My little shop story “Catch ‘Em in the Act” is also archived on this publisher’s website, which is currently the high end of the SF short fiction market.
Critic Charles Tan has posted a recent interview with me on his blog.
“Corona Centurion FAQ” published in the June/July F&SF, is sure to be a shoe-in for the Turner award.
photo by Rosalie Winard
My quixotic novella Planet of Mystery is out from PS in England. Locus describes it as “marginally interesting.” Billy’s Book, a gift collection of sentimental childhood tales, is on the way but not yet published.
Coming soon, a new series from PM (a US anarchist press, based here in Oakland) called Outspoken Authors. These are short books, explicitly and hopefully dangerously political. The first two are The Lucky Strike by Kim Stanley Robinson (his classic Hiroshima tale plus lots of new material and commentary) and my own The Left Left Behind, about the Rapture. The next two will be from Michael Moorcock and Eleanor Arnason. I am editing this series for PM.
PM is also bringing back Fire on the Mountain, my 1988 alternate history novel about Nova Africa, John Brown, Virginia and Mars. Rock on.
Film work includes ROBESON, a screenplay about the neglected hero for Four Stars in Hollywood & Auckland. Komodo Films of Jakarta is doing NECRONAUTS (based on my first Playboy story) some time this year, in 3-D!
Editorially: I recently worked with Diana Block on her tale of life underground, Arm the Spirit, and just finished David Gilbert’s underground weather memoir, At the Risk of Seeming Ridiculous (title by Che). Next will be Journey to the Centre of the Earth?
Other activities include This Month in History, a regular feature in Locus magazine, and SF in SF, the monthly author reading series in San Francisco.
Thanks for asking.