Author Archives: JE

I was just thinking about Janet Kagan’s Mirabile today because of a line in Gail Collins’ NYT column, which is a sort of FAQ about the Texas and Ohio primaries: While we’re at it, would you please explain the Texas … Continue reading →

Janet Kagan has died. I loved her series in Asimov’s about genetic mishaps on a colony planet (“The Loch Moose Monster”, “Return of Kangaroo Rex” etc), collected in Mirabile, and was sorry when we stopped getting new stories from her. … Continue reading →

Endymion’s revenge: the moon’s bright eye is shut, and on its ashen lid I see red shadows lie.

My flashfic “Brother Solson and Sister Luna” has gone live at Every Day Fiction. It’s a vampire story, and a non-Morlock story. The specific genesis was seeing I Am Legend this winter and thinking, “This is impossible. The vampire-zombie-whatevers have … Continue reading →

Oh, pus and blasphemation! Steve Gerber’s dead. Among other things, he created the beyond-brilliant comic Howard the Duck (known today largely as the basis of George Lucas’ worst movie–yes even worse than Episode I, a truly epic standard of awfulness). … Continue reading →

The other morning, I was watching the previews for Spider-Man 10. (The logo for the movie is, of course, a very webby Roman numeral X.) I’m happy to report that, despite its somewhat schlocky tagline (“Spider-Man Vs. King Kong!”), the … Continue reading →

Most readers of this LJ will have already read about this, but I thought I’d mention: Mike Kabongo (a.k.a. onyxhawke) is running another one of his manuscript reading marathons, this one dubbed the Winter Workout. He really does give great … Continue reading →

Double Tongued Word Wrester hasn’t been too thrilling lately–e.g. their breathless revelation that step on means “cut” in the parlance of the drug world. (I mean, where did these guys spend the 1970s?) But they made up for it today … Continue reading →

I walked over to the grocery store tonight through a pleasant dusting of new snow. On my way back I was crossing through a parking lot when I realized the random scrapings of fresh-fallen snow under my feet weren’t random … Continue reading →

For years I was sure I couldn’t write flashfic. In fact, if a story clocks in at less than 5000 words I usually feel it might be too short. But recently something snapped and I’ve not only been writing flashfic … Continue reading →