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SUNDAY GLOMARAMA [Oct. 23rd, 2005|10:59 am]
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Gordon Van Gelder has a new anthology out of Mars stories from the pages of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, FOURTH PLANET FROM THE SUN. Here's what Booklist had to say about it:
Recent publicity about the 2004 Mars rover expeditions and the perdurable popularity of such novels as Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy seem to have made anything anent the fourth planet a hot commodity inside and outside of sf. Veteran sf editor Van Gelder seizes the day by collecting Martian tales from the pages of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Reaching into the archives, he emerges with some of the genre flagship-journal's earliest and latest Mars-related stories, and he tracks the shifting views of the red planet that sf authors have had over the years. Ray Bradbury's "Wilderness" and Arthur C. Clarke's "Crime on Mars" reflect the early view of Mars as birthplace of an old civilization. Alfred Coppel's "Mars Is Ours" and John Varley's "In the Hall of the Martian Kings" capture the more modern view of Mars as a barren wasteland. Notably included is Philip K. Dick's classic "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," the basis of the film Total Recall. Mars fanatics won't be disappointed.
Here's the amazing line-up of writers and stories:
Ray Bradbury * The Wilderness
Alfred Coppel * Mars Is Ours
Arthur C. Clarke* Crime on Mars
Leigh Brackett * Purple Priestess of the Mad Moon
Roger Zelazny * A Rose for Ecclesiastes
Philip K. Dick * We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
Eklund & Benford* Hellas is Florida
John Varley * In the Hall of the Martian Kings
Robert F. Young * The First Mars Mission
Michael Cassutt * The Last Mars Trip
Jerry Oltion * The Great Martian Pyramid Hoax
Alex Irvine * Pictures from an Expedition
I hear from a reliable source that this anthology is selling like hot cakes, so get it while you can.

I was going to bemoan the lack of enthusiasm for my YARD SALE offering (see yesterday) in this post, but if you look to the comments page for that installment, you will see that some brilliant individual named, Dan, has offered 20.00 dollars for the glorious frag. I'll leave the sale going on for one more day, but if no one else wants to make a move on "Sprang" it will go to Dan.

Big News over at the Mumpsimus. Rudi Dornemann has won the Mumpsimus Five Dollars and a Cup of Coffee Genius Grant for his story "The Sky Green Box," which appeared in Rabid Transit:Menagerie. Congratulations to Rudi. ...But shouldn't he have to share this with someone less fortunate? I mean let's face it, he's published, but there are thousands of less well-off writers out there who are unknown and could use a cup of coffee. (just kidding, Matt).

Jeff VanderMeer is posting the first lines of some of his yet to be published stories over at his blog. Check it out and enjoy.

Gwenda, at Shaken and Stirred, has a link to some kind of crazy ass quizz that measures your sense of humor. I haven't had a chance to take it yet, but it looks interesting.

Neil Gaiman has posted an engaging rememberance of his discovery of the work of Charles Addams at his Journal.

Want to know what the future holds? You can find out at this site six ways to Sunday. If you get a bad reading, you'll be at it all day, trying to get things to come around. Dig It.

Come on now, let's show some more interest in my miserable story fragment, you pikers. You know it's a fair sight better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Visit the Yard Sale with a can do attitude. Later.
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From: (Anonymous)
2005-10-24 03:54 pm (UTC)

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Don't worry, Jeff, I told Rudi he needs to take the mug and the money and use it to bring a homeless person on the brink of death back toward not only life, but affluence, and then teach that person how to write (if they don't already know) in a style that is both convincingly proletarian and pleasingly artistic. He said this would not be a problem, as, apparently, there are lots of people with MFAs living on the sidewalks of Portland, Maine.

Matt
[User Picture]From: [info]14theditch
2005-10-24 05:54 pm (UTC)

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matt: Your post reminds me of the Charles Bukowski line -- "There are a million stock boys who've read the classics. Thanks for posting and for your philanthropical generosity.

jeff