Marta & the Demons -- a novelette about getting out at the top. I guess it's design fiction? Designtopic YA? Currently Kindle on...

When you weigh up the pros and cons, genre writing would be way better off without any prizes at all. Earlier: underappreciated authors

Underappreciated authors: over at SF Signal , some interesting-sounding leads to chase up. I'm stunned-not-stunned nobody mentioned the ...

Cory Doctorow on sunk costs and adversarial compatibility . "There are two groups of people who especially rely on this kind of thing...

Can't really think of any new genres this Wednesday. Maybe this should be the last of New Genre Wednesdays. Here's the first (last ...

Collected in the Brothers Grimm, the story of Rumplestiltskin revolves around a wager to guess the name of an imp, in order to escape an ear...

Rather than have a new #WorldCon next year, I suggest holding the exact same #LonCon3 again, so I can go attend the programming I missed...

1. Twitter has a blue verified account tick badge. It shows that somebody is really who they say they are. It's time we have another...

UPDATE: Check out  SUPERFLUX Issue 1 : editorial by Warren Ellis and drone fictions (not, to be fair, "predictions") by Tim Maugha...

There is a poem about a Lucy by William Wordsworth: A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seem'd a thing that coul...