Elsewhere
I've got a couple of pieces of writing floating around out in the internets this week— A new Sandman Meditations piece has been posted at Gestalt Mash. This week, the penultimate chapter of Brief Lives . If my counting is correct, this is the 50th Sandman Meditation. (The 50th issue of Sandman was "Ramadan" , but because I'm reading the stories in the order of the trade collections rather than the original publication, I wrote about that issue back in June when I read it in Fables and Reflections .) Over at Strange Horizons, it's Pat Cadigan week, and I've contributed an essay about some of the 1980s short stories that helped make Cadigan famous . It's a somewhat odd essay. I expect the nice young men in their clean white coats to show up at my door any moment... Also, it's Strange Horizons Fund Drive time! The site exists through contributions. The staff are not paid, but the writers are (the reverse of many publisher's policies). Except...