A sudden burst of reviews for Tesseracts Ten, which is about to be published in the US. My favorite (and fortunately the most widely-seen, I expect) was on the SciFi.com book review site, where Damian Kilby said "Matthew Johnson spins a remarkable fantasy ghost tale in 'Closing Time.' In the world of the story, ghosts of the dead remain to entertain mourners at the wake, with food and entertainment provided for as long as the ghost remains on this plane. Nep Gao, the restaurant-owner protagonist, fears he will be forced into bankruptcy when his father's shade stays on too long, entertaining guests who are all to happy to come every day to enjoy the excellent free food. The story shows both a light, charming sense of humor and a deeper understanding of tradition and its role in family relationships."
Meanwhile, on SFSite Jacob Schmidt said "'Closing Time' by Matthew Johnston is a beautiful and funny little Borgian fantasy about the art of cooking, even though it is slightly marred by a final twist that is not as surprising as it strives to be," while Harrow's Dru Pagliassotti said "'Closing Time' is a charming tale about a garrulous father's ghost who simply won't leave his restaurant to move on to the next world."
All in all, not a bad batch of reviews...
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Questions, comments, complaints?
... as the head counsellor at my summer camp used to say. After Rich Horton pointed out to me that he was unable to comment to my last post (he kindly emailed me instead) I went and changed the settings to this blog so that anyone can post a comment. (I tend to think of this as just a high-tech kind of talking to myself, so it never struck me as odd there were no comments).
Let a thousand comments bloom!
Let a thousand comments bloom!
Verbs is best
Put quotation marks around the first word in that sentence and it's grammatically correct, honest.
I've been sitting for awhile on the news that "Irregular Verbs" was chosen for Rich Horton's anthology Fantasy: The Year's Best 2007, waiting for it to hit the shelves. Apparently it's now been printed and is on its way to stores, though naturally I haven't seen my copy yet (no doubt there's something in there Canada Customs doesn't approve of). Anyway, it's available here, as well in an actual bookstore, and contains many fine stories by writers in whose company I'm honored and humbled to be.
I've been sitting for awhile on the news that "Irregular Verbs" was chosen for Rich Horton's anthology Fantasy: The Year's Best 2007, waiting for it to hit the shelves. Apparently it's now been printed and is on its way to stores, though naturally I haven't seen my copy yet (no doubt there's something in there Canada Customs doesn't approve of). Anyway, it's available here, as well in an actual bookstore, and contains many fine stories by writers in whose company I'm honored and humbled to be.
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