end of an era

[lagilman]

from SciFi Wire:

Gardner Dozois is stepping down as editor at Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine to “pursue other projects, including his own writing,” according to a press release from Asimov’s publisher Dell Magazines. Current executive editor Sheila Williams will replace Dozois, who will remain as a contributing editor.

Sheila's first issue filling the Gardner-shaped space will be January 2005.



Change is good. I know this from personal experience. Sameness deadens and dulls. Change invigorates. Change reinvents. Change is very very weird.

In other, less earth-shattering writing news, I'm closing in on 2,000 words for the day and feeling pretty good. I also have the shimmerings of not one but two new stories in my brain. We'll see what, if anything, rises from them.

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Wow, no kidding

[banazir.livejournal.com]

Was going to ask who's EIC of Analog (http://www.analogsf.com) but then remembered that I have a brain, fingers, dimensions, Google. :-P

Stanley Schmidt (http://www.analogsf.com/information/what_is_asf.shtml) (must admit that's the first time I've heard the name).
Now what's interesting is that Sheila Williams is managing editor of Analog, too.

But Gardner Dozois stepping down - yowza.

I've only followed Asimov's (on and off, very sporadically) since c. 1984 or 1985.
My favorite serial therein was Michael Swanwick (http://www.michaelswanwick.com)'s Vacuum Flowers (http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~roboman/Swanwick.html). Post-Neuromancer, pre-TNG, it was still Matrix and Borg before they were cool (well, before they were pop culture terms).

Hm. "I was country from my hat down to my boots"; "I was Matrix from... ?"

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Banazir