Legacy of a last attempt to persuade myself that chess is not dull. Chess is dull. pic.twitter.com/vGZDZsMKZL — Nick Harkaway (@Harkaway) ...

A while back I applied to write for a game -- what eventually became this game -- but I didn't get the job. But here's the sample m...

Continuing the season of THE BALLOT OF ALL POSSIBLE AWARDS ... Here's a post from Ian Sales, more-or-less opposing the practice of pu...

Some excellent squirming parcels of short fiction silked over at The Spider's House (Nina Allan). Never let anyone tell you Silky Stori...

By Nick Lowe, Interzone 253. [...] It’s easily the most complex transformation yet of a major franchise universe, bending the series’ incr...

1) Just above there's a list of some short genre fiction which caught my attention in 2014, simply by lying sneakily in wait. 2) I wa...

"You have to puke it up." Sofia Samatar's short story "How to Get Back to the Forest" over at Lightspeed . § Va...

Two books free on Amazon for at least a few more hours: Near future SF novella Marta & the Demons (2014), about cryptocurrency, gami...

[& elsewhere: Cecily Kane on Catherine F. King's "The Ninety-Ninth Bride." ]

Super quickly, this is how it'll work: 1) 100 or so Big Name Authors automatically entered 2) Everybody else self-nominates (indie au...