More news: Aberrant Dreams, a magazine based in Atlanta, is running a special issue which will contain an original story of mine, "The Manastodon Broadcasts". This is a very unusual story, since it was written in response to a competition run by the magazine, whereby readers were invited to submit a story synopsis based around one of several SF and fantasy images supplied by the magazine. The special issue, entitled The Awakening, will be available in several formats, and features original fiction from myself, Ian Watson, Mary Rosenblum, among others.
As soon as I can get my addled brain around it, I will load the ad for The Awakening onto the main site. You can find out more about it by visiting Aberrant Dream's website:
http://www.hd-image.com/main.htm
Other news: I finished a novella, "The Six Directions of Space" (about the starfaring descendants of Genghis Khan), for Gardner Dozois's forthcoming Galactic Empires anthology.
It's a bit late to mention it, but the "Sledge-Maker's Daughter" appeared in Interzone 209 a couple of months ago, and my Merlin novella, "Minla's Flowers", is now available in Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan's The New Space Opera, at least in the Australian edition. On his blog, Jonathan also reports that the young adult SF anthology "The Starry Rift" should be out next February, which will contain "The Star-Surgeon's Apprentice". And I spotted the David Hartwell Year's Best SF in Amsterdam last week, which contains "Tiger, Burning" from last year's Forbidden Planets anthology.
