Author Archives: Stephen

Stephen sells to TESSERACTS 11

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Hi all –

I got a lovely surprise today when I opened my e-mail and discovered that the Easter Bunny brought a message from Holly Phillips and Cory Doctorow informing me that my story CITIUS, ALTIUS, FORTIUS has been accepted for inclusion in TESSERACTS 11. The contract is in the mail!

CITIUS, ALTIUS, FORTIUS is a story about corporate nations, the Olympics, genetic modification, and how dreams have a way of not turning out the way you expect.

The Tesseracts series of books began in 1985 (the first volume was edited by Judith Merril) as a showcase for Canadian SF. Now published by EDGE Books of Calgary, each volume is edited by a rotating group of notables in the Canadian SF scene. This year’s editors are Holly Phillips and Cory Doctorow, and past editors have included Robert J. Sawyer, Nalo Hopkinson, Robert Charles Wilson, Phyllis Gotlieb, Geoff Ryman, and Edo Van Belkom.

This will be the eleventh volume in the series (plus one volume–Tesseracts Q–of translations of stories by Québécois authors) and according to the EDGE Books website, the collection is due out in November 2007. It will be my third publication this year (and third publication ever, coincidentally 🙂

“Hoppy” Easter,

– S.

It’s a Girl!

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Congratulations to Karen (of Fledglings fame) and her husband Aaron on the birth of their first child, a daughter, Liane Judith Audrey Coholan, who was born in the wee hours of March 25th.

Liane was a healthy 8 lbs 3 oz (don’t know when we’ll weigh babies in metric…) and from what Karen said at Ad Astra, will be enrolled in kickboxing classes as soon as she can stand on her own (it is the sport of the future, I’m told).

Welcome to the third planet from the sun, Liane. You’ll always be “Coco” to me 🙂

– S.

More AD ASTRA news on the Writers of the Future Blog

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Hi all –

The Writers of the Future blog has posted my report (and some familiar photos) about the WOTF panel at Ad Astra.

The headline of the post is “More Ad Astra News from Stephen Kotowych“…but I can’t find the original news they posted about the con 🙂

Ah well.

I’ve also happened upon this Flickr page of photos posted by Rebecca Simkin. Included are a bunch from Julie Czerneda’s pizza par-tay.

– S.

Lew Zealand

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Well, SHIPBREAKER has come back to me again, rather quickly.

After a 4 day rejection from the anthology it was written for, I got a rejection from F&SF yesterday–an 8 day response. I’ve submitted it next to Strange Horizons, and am expecting it back in 16 days (assuming the pattern holds).

Seems like people can’t reject this one fast enough. I feel like Lew Zealand, the boomerang fish-thrower from the Muppet Show. “I throw the story away, and it comes back to me!”

– S.

PS: This is the third or fourth time in the short life of this blog that I’ve mentioned feeling like one or other of Jim Henson’s foam creations. Can you tell I watched a lot of PBS as a kid? Just for the record, Uncle Deadly still gives me the booboojeebies.

Didn’t Asimov Already Do This?

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Hi all –

News today that S Korea is devising a robot code of ethics…a mere 65 years after Issac Asimov did 🙂

I’m actually impressed to see scientists, futurists, and governments giving serious thought to the ethical implications of advanced “futuristic” technology BEFORE it comes into widespread use. I wish somebody thought of that before the a-bomb or genetic engineering…

Find the whole article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6425927.stm

Best,

– S.