K.W. Jeter Is Following Me on Twitter.

Shouldn't you?
@excalibur61

Seriously - I'm in a fanboy daze. If it weren't for KWJ, we wouldn't have the Court of the Air, Perdido Street Station, Girl Genius, Lovelace and Babbage...

He is one of the progenitors of steampunk. Hell, he COINED THE TERM "STEAMPUNK." How many writers can honestly say they midwifed a whole new genre?

The man wrote two of the earliest steampunk fantasias: Morlock Nights and Infernal Devices (the latter of which was the earliest example of "clockpunk.")

Shout out to you, KWJ.

Save This Story II

So.
It's the early '60s. There's this young guy, quiet, lanky, big nose. Loves mythology, the Bhagavad Gita, martial arts. Comes out of Columbia with an MA in Elizabethan drama, goes back to his home state of Ohio and starts working for the Social Security office. Evenings and weekends, he writes fantasy and science fiction, working his way up from short stories to novels.

His name is Roger Zelazny-

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Save This Story!

We've consigned entire classic F/SF novels to obscurity - Jack of Shadows, The Eyes of the Overworld, Stand on Zanzibar - so what chance do individual short stories have? Let's save some of these gems.

For this post, the short story is Green Tea, by Richard Wadholm. Published in 1999, anthologized in the 17th Year's Best Science Fiction, it combines vengeance, disaster in space, and advanced particle physics, and serves them up with an elegant Spanish accent. It is tasty, my friends. You can find it as an individual ebook at BarnesandNoble.com. Only $1.39. And you can download the Nook app onto your laptop or iWhatever for free to read it.

And after the jump, a sample to whet your appetites: