Hustley Tuesdays: Storybundle

One of my favorite things pubbed in 2015 was Berit Ellingsen's Not Dark Yet. It's part of Ann & Jeff VanderMeer's "Winter Mixtape" Storybundle, which also has stuff by Eugen Egner, Leena Krohn, Michael Cisco and many others. And which is pay-what-you-want-but-you-want-to-pay-$15. Here's a review of Not Dark Yet by Bruno George.

Also,

" " IS NOT IN THE ALPHABET, CHINA MIEVUL.

Hustley Tuesdays: Strange Horizons

STRANGE HORIZONS fund drive! You can also "embed their progress rocket."


All That Is Solid maintains a policy of never giving in to crowdfunders' demands, but will shortly be launching special ops to exfil the following corpuscles promising excellence & intrigue:

$15,000—Stretch goal: an extra 18,000 words of fiction!
$13,500—Bonus fiction and podcast! Part two of "She Commands Me and I Obey" by Ann Leckie—and fund drive goal!
$12,000—Bonus column! John Clute on The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
$10,500—Bonus poem and podcast! "Salamander Song" by Rose Lemberg and Emily Jiang
$9,000—Bonus fiction and podcast! Part one of "She Commands Me and I Obey" by Ann Leckie
$7,500—Bonus review! Apocalypse Now Now and Kill Baxter, by Charlie Human, reviewed by Cassandra Khaw.
$6,000—Bonus article! Iain Banks interviewed by Jude Roberts
$4,500—Bonus fiction and podcast! "Because I Prayed This Word" by Alex Dally MacFarlane
$3,000—Bonus poem! "Cloud Wall" by Arkady Martine
$1,500—Bonus review! The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer, reviewed by Adam Roberts

Note: Network for Good doesn't seem to have an option for non-US addresses?

Elsewhere:

Pimp this ride: Hedgespoken.

Pay someone's water bill in Detroit.

Latino/a Rising anthology (the reward level for the print anthology has come down since this Kickstarter was launched).

Also it's that time when Whinge-ipedia starts looking for a fucking handout. What my data not good enough for you? Too high & mighty to show me ads relating to Turkey-PKK conflict, Epicanthic fold, List of collective nouns in English, Real-life experience (transgender), Petrarchan sonnet, Feminine rhyme, and Poop deck?

Hustley Tuesdays: Latino/a Rising

This week, consider gambling your vast Highland real estate equity on the Latino/a Rising Kickstarter. The anthology is ed. Matthew David Gordon, to feature fiction and artwork from Kathleen Alcalá, Giannina Braschi, Pablo Brescia, Ana Castillo, Daína Chaviano, Junot Díaz, Carlos Hernandez, Ernest Hogan, Adál Maldonado, Carmen Maria Machado, Alejandro Morales, Daniel José Older, Edmundo Paz-Soldán, Alex Rivera, & Sabrina Vourvoulias.

Hustley Tuesdays: Boy & His Pup Kickstarter

Last few days for an indie game offering "a new perspective on tower defense." I'm kind of in two minds about this -- is it one of those ones where it removes exactly the thing which makes the genre work? Shouldn't there be some kind of crafting booby-trap puzzler feature for a Home Alone-ish vibe? But its ludic virtues are also obviously manifold, & I hope they hit their target.

Hustley Tuesdays: Sibilant Fricatives

Did you know that Adam Roberts's book Sibilant Fricatives, which collects his essays and reviews of science fiction and fantasy books and movies, is completely different from his blog Sibilant Fricatives, where he posts essays and reviews of science fiction and fantasy books and movies? I didn't!

The ebook is a snip at £3.42. It includes, for instance, the David Blaine-ish endurance magic of reviewing the entire of Robert Jordon's Wheel of Time cycle, without ever being made to, or wanting to; it includes a review of The Hobbit which delves into the nitty-gritty of the rewriting Tolkien did himself, long before Peter Jackson started messing with canon; it includes an emulsion-wistful review which Greg Egan was inspired to anatomise as a Hatchet Job; and it includes an introduction by Paul Kincaid: "[...] I like to think I was invited to introduce this collection of his reviews because of those disagreements, not in spite of them."

The title relates to Roberts's tacit suggestion that fandom should refer to the object of our love with a sort of pervasive hissing, as if we didn't already:

'SF', when spoken aloud [...] is never, I think, pronounced as it is spelled, in part because there is something tongue-twistish about the cramming together of a sibilant and a fricative after this fashion. [...] But the difficulty of juxtaposing sibilant and fricative appeals to me as a small symbol of the larger, creative difficulty of the genre as a whole. SF ought to be difficult. The melding of science (technology, philosophy) and fiction (aesthetics and narrative) best not be facile, and SF in which this blend is too painlessly presented is generally bad SF.

Compare one of Stephen Sondheim's harrowing "love arse" masterclasses (YouTube):

Hustley Tuesdays: Accessing the Future

Another shout-out for The Future Fire's Accessing the Future Indiegogo. From the futuristic furnaces whence came Outlaw Bodies and We See A Different Frontier anthologies.

Over at Paper Knife, a conversation between the editors and Maureen Kincaid Speller about how not to do disability SF.

Hustley Tuesdays: Growstuff

Support a free and open worldwide food-growing database.

Hustley Tuesdays: Accessing the Future

Consider supporting Accessing the Future, an anthology of disability-themed speculative fiction, on Indiegogo. They've hit the target, but at $7000 they go pro market. Some juicy story / novella crit perks still available too.

Elsewhere: The Future Fire.

Hustley Tuesdays: Aylett's Armamentarium

As Steve Aylett's Unbound fundraiser Lindy Huts Huts up to 40% with a reverberating "I Can't Go On, I'll Go On," I thought it worth linking -- for those not lucky enough yet to try them -- to some of Aylett's earlier glorious, sui generis, extravagant, witty, kinky, lofty, scarry-eyed, silly, and (even though they keep implying this one is true, it is true) utterly original books.

Lint, a biography of pulp author Jeff Lint, is probably the best-known one. But I'd be tempted to start either with Toxicology, which collects some early short stories, Fain the Sorcerer, a picaresque fairytale novella, or Rebel at the End of Time, the greatest fanfic ever written.

They're all available on Kindle. & Paul di Fillipo has a little intro to Aylett over at Locus.