I like Ike

-- and Ike likes me... or at least, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine does (to use its original name). To be specific, they liked my story "Lagos" enough to accept it for publication, to which I say: yay!

To be more more serious for a moment, I'm tremendously pleased and excited. I've only sold two stories from this summer's crop so far, but when both of those sales are to Asimov's I can't complain. I think "Lagos" is a pretty cool story, so I'm glad lots of people will get to see it.

Matthew

Muy cool

Two pieces of cool news today: first, Rich Horton has named "Public Safety" one of his three favorite Asimov novelettes of 2007 (that's out of a total of 23, and ahead of way-better-than-me folks like Nancy Kress, Brian Stableford and Charles Stross). Thanks to fellow Canadian and constant anthology-neighbour Sarah Totton for the info.

More importantly: Harper Collins is reprinting the entire twenty-six black-and-white run of my favorite comic ever, Scott McCloud's Zot! Now I'm glad that I never managed to pick up a copy of volume two, since this 500-page monster will include volumes two and three plus the never-published volume four. If you're not familiar with this terrific comic, do yourselves a favour and check it out -- when it comes out next August. Waah!

Big news

Exciting news: I just sold my story "Another Country" to Asimov's. This will be my third time in their pages, and I'm very pleased about it.

As well, I have some more good news relating to a previous story in Asimov's, which I'm going to post as soon as the Ts are dotted and the Is crossed. Stay tuned.

Matthew