Middle Eastern Writers Find Refuge in the Dystopian Novel (NY Times)

“Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality.” —Andrey Sinyavsky

 

The New York Times on the rise of Dystopian Fiction in the Middle East.

Philadelphia Writers Conference Interviews Michael Swanwick and myself

On winning the 2015 Asimov’s Magazine Readers’ Award for Best Novelette (yes, we won it in 2016 but it’s for our story published last year, etc.):

2016 Asimov Award Winners

 

It’s official: Michael Swanwick and I have won a 2016 Asimov’s Readers’ Award

I take delight in announcing that Michael Swanwick and I have won an Asimov’s Magazine Readers’ Award for our novelette, “Lock Up Your Chickens and Daughters—H’ard and Andy are Come to Town!” (April/May 2015 issue). Quite chuffed here about that.

-gf

Asimov's Magazine April-May 2015