Stories: Bibliography, Links, Reviews
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ellenkushnerBut nobody guessed the story!
So, nu?
This also seems like a good place to mention that my All New All Revised (and updated) BIBLIOGRAPHY is now up on my website! Please feel free Beta-test it and let me know if anything's missing or unclear.
Divided by category (Novels, Short Stories, etc.), work is listed from Most Recent (including Sold but Not Yet Published) to Oldest. We didn't break them down by categories within those - e.g. "Riverside Stories" - but the site has a whole separate page of those, broken down by Timeline: The World of Riverside.
Speaking of which, the most recent of those published is "'A Wild and a Wicked Youth'" in F&SF - and turns out that issue is available as e-book for your reading pleasure. Wow. What a world!
Speaking of which: I am stupidly excited about the review "Wicked Youth" just got in Locus from Gardiner Dozois. I love Gardiner. We've been pals since he was unnecessarily kind and welcoming to me at my very first SF con - a Philcon held in I kid you not a Motor Court - where I arrived, alone, about 3 months into my first job out of college, as Jim Baen's Editorial Assistant at Ace Books. Watching as Gardiner became the influential and perceptive editor of Asimov's for so many years was a thrill. But I don't think I ever submitted a short story to him; those weren't really short-fiction-writing time for me. So I had no idea whether he'd ever read anything I'd ever written or not. Now he's reviewing short SF for Locus, but his initial column was cranky about there not being enough hard SF, so I didn't think he'd even review my story in F&SF. But he did! And he liked it! Here's what he wrote:
Ellen Kushner's "'A Wild and a Wicked Youth'" is a prequel to her popular novel Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners, the origin story, to borrow comics terminology, of that novel's main character, Richard St. Vier (For Swordspoint fans, nothing more will need to be said). Like the novel itself, like much of Kushner's work, which has sometimes been referrred to as "mannerpunk," this comes close to being fantasy-by-courtesy - set in an imaginary secondary world, yes, but one very much like our own Europe a couple of hundred years past, and with no overt supernatural elements. Still, the storyline here is so compelling, and the character of Richard St. Vier so complex and interesting, that I can't imagine that any but the strictest of fantasy purists will object to the lack of wizards and dragons. - Gardner Dozois, "Short Fiction" Reviews, Locus, May 2009
Oh, Gardner! I love you, too. (And I should add that the story got a nice writeup from Locus reviewer Rich Horton in last month's issue - thanks, Rich! It was mostly a plot summary, though - no adjectives, and believe me I was paying attention! - so I was surprised & delighted that it also made Rich's Recommended Stories list for that month.) Although he's not even a fantasist, Gardner Dozois' depth of knowledge and breadth of context is what every editor (much less writer) dreams of in a reviewer! There's a reason he's one of the greats. Locus is lucky to have him.
So, nu?
This also seems like a good place to mention that my All New All Revised (and updated) BIBLIOGRAPHY is now up on my website! Please feel free Beta-test it and let me know if anything's missing or unclear.
Divided by category (Novels, Short Stories, etc.), work is listed from Most Recent (including Sold but Not Yet Published) to Oldest. We didn't break them down by categories within those - e.g. "Riverside Stories" - but the site has a whole separate page of those, broken down by Timeline: The World of Riverside.
Speaking of which, the most recent of those published is "'A Wild and a Wicked Youth'" in F&SF - and turns out that issue is available as e-book for your reading pleasure. Wow. What a world!
Speaking of which: I am stupidly excited about the review "Wicked Youth" just got in Locus from Gardiner Dozois. I love Gardiner. We've been pals since he was unnecessarily kind and welcoming to me at my very first SF con - a Philcon held in I kid you not a Motor Court - where I arrived, alone, about 3 months into my first job out of college, as Jim Baen's Editorial Assistant at Ace Books. Watching as Gardiner became the influential and perceptive editor of Asimov's for so many years was a thrill. But I don't think I ever submitted a short story to him; those weren't really short-fiction-writing time for me. So I had no idea whether he'd ever read anything I'd ever written or not. Now he's reviewing short SF for Locus, but his initial column was cranky about there not being enough hard SF, so I didn't think he'd even review my story in F&SF. But he did! And he liked it! Here's what he wrote:
Ellen Kushner's "'A Wild and a Wicked Youth'" is a prequel to her popular novel Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners, the origin story, to borrow comics terminology, of that novel's main character, Richard St. Vier (For Swordspoint fans, nothing more will need to be said). Like the novel itself, like much of Kushner's work, which has sometimes been referrred to as "mannerpunk," this comes close to being fantasy-by-courtesy - set in an imaginary secondary world, yes, but one very much like our own Europe a couple of hundred years past, and with no overt supernatural elements. Still, the storyline here is so compelling, and the character of Richard St. Vier so complex and interesting, that I can't imagine that any but the strictest of fantasy purists will object to the lack of wizards and dragons. - Gardner Dozois, "Short Fiction" Reviews, Locus, May 2009
Oh, Gardner! I love you, too. (And I should add that the story got a nice writeup from Locus reviewer Rich Horton in last month's issue - thanks, Rich! It was mostly a plot summary, though - no adjectives, and believe me I was paying attention! - so I was surprised & delighted that it also made Rich's Recommended Stories list for that month.) Although he's not even a fantasist, Gardner Dozois' depth of knowledge and breadth of context is what every editor (much less writer) dreams of in a reviewer! There's a reason he's one of the greats. Locus is lucky to have him.
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Date: 2009-05-16 09:38 pm (UTC)snot-nosed bratpug-faced boy/runaway heiress from "The Swordsman Whose Name Was Not Death"? (I've always been tremendously impressed by her concentration all through that practice bout with Richard in his, ah, sleeping attire.)"It's a girl," he said abruptly, unsuspecting midwife to unnatural birth. I just howl with laughter every time I read that. Oh, Alec!
*checks Bibliography* Oh, I can see a lot of anthologies for me to track down!
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Date: 2009-05-18 01:07 pm (UTC)You know, I could've sworn it was the little Lady of Quality, but I couldn't at all remember her on any table at any given time. Oops.
And I liek that reviewer's panache. Rightful acclaim of a fabulous story, *and* lots and lots of commas! Shine on, you crazy Dozois! Dragons are entirely optional.
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Date: 2009-05-18 10:21 pm (UTC)Too late.
Ah, well...
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