Looks Like a Sale for "The Saturday Dance"

Hey, gang-

It looks like I've just sold my Voudoun-based short story, "The Saturday Dance," to Lore magazine. I'm jazzed because Lore is a great magazine. I'm also happy because it's print - a new world for me. It will come out in Lore 4 in either September or October of this year.

Plus-

-It looks like my short story, The Saturday Dance, will be anthologized in Persephone's Kiss, along with stories by Jane Yolen and Jeffrey Ford, among others.

Hoo-ah!

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:

A Taste of Cordwainer

"Isaac Asimov": 8.8 million Google hits.

"Cordwainer Smith": 274,000 Google hits.

I've always liked Asimov, and I can quote the Three Laws of Robotics by heart. But if you want to talk about stories that burrowed into my brain and stay with me now, thirty years later, it's Cordwainer Smith, hands down. And nobody knows who he is.

More after the jump.