Book time.

I am not promising to take any of the following recommendations. But I might!

Right now, I'm reading and nearly through with Shirley Jackson's short novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle. It's excellent. I think I'd like to read science fiction next... and can't really shake out of my head any major recommendations for science fiction that I've had lately. As a general rule, I tend to prefer books that tuck off into the odd corners of genres, and I'm not apt to enjoy your basic throw-away, pew-pew space opera adventure story. I like magical realism, post apocalypse, distopias...I like Burgess and Borges and Gregory Maguire and Ambrose Bierce.

Any ideas, oh internot hive-mind?

More bookses

Well, I'm excited!

During the winter of '07 I had a short story published in an anthology put out by a small start-up publishing company called Meadowhawk Press. The couple that started the company did so as inspired by a desire to publish her novel, which ended up getting picked up in the eleventh hour by an agent but they went forward with MHP all the same. I talked to her a fair bit when she was getting things started and was fascinated; this is a long time dream of mine, to start a publication firm at some point in my future. I adore Jackie Gamber and I think her endeavors are fabulous.

At any rate, I just received news that one of the novels Meadowhawk publishes was just selected for the Philip K Dick award. This is extremely awesome to me.

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