On his fiction review page Quick Sip Reviews, Charles Payseur posts a flattering and thought-provoking review of my story “Laws of Impermanence” in Uncanny Magazine. There are things about this review that I like even better than the story. 😉
My story “Laws of Impermanence is now available on the Uncanny Magazine web site! This story is weird even for me…
There’ve been some discussions involving an SFF “canon” recently that have sent my busybrain on a whole bunch of related tangents. Bear with me. Whenever I plan a literature class, I’m heartbroken that there won’t be a time to assign all the works I’d like the students to be exposed […]
My personal author’s copies of Anthems Outside Time and Other Strange Voices arrived today.
If your Kindle order of #AnthemsOutsideTime was “canceled by the publisher,” it’s a glitch. See the Fairwood Press web site for details. You will definitely be able to re-order it on Amazon, although it doesn’t look available yet (i.e., at 12:40 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday). The hardcopy version *is* […]
Here’s my schedule for Boskone 57, February 14-16 2020, at the Boston Westin Waterfront:. Remembering the Star Trek AliensFriday 17:00 – 17:50, Harbor IIVulcans, Klingons, and Romulans all have their fans. Let’s look beyond these familiarly fantastic faces to other memorable aliens (and cultures) within the Star Trek macroverse, and […]
I’m pleased & somewhat amused to report that my story “Foursomes” will appear in Across The Universe, a Beatles Spec-Fic Anthology edited by Randee Dawn and Michael A Ventrella.
Here are my panels etc. for WorldCon 77, Dublin, Ireland, which runs August 15-19, 2019: Orville vs Discovery 18 Aug 2019, Sunday 11:00 – 11:50, Liffey Room-2 (CCD) One is seen as the next version of True Trek. The other is canonical Trek, by definition, since it has the imprimatur […]
Here's my Schedule for Readercon 30, July 11-14, Quincy Marriott, Quincy, MA: Writing Craft and Mentoring Programs Jack Dann, Theodora Goss (mod), Kate Maruyama, Kenneth Schneyer, Holly Walrath Fri 12:00 PM, Salon 4 Those who want to learn the craft of writing popular genre fiction have more options then ever. […]
For anyone who's in the Boston area next weekend, here's my schedule for Readercon: Thursday, July 13: 8:00 PM Salon 5 How to Moderate a Panel. Alex Jablokow, Victoria Janssen (leader), Kathleen Jennings, Tom Purdom, Kenneth Schneyer. The moderator plays a crucial role in making panels run smoothly and […]
I'm very happy to announce that Trevor Quachri at Analog Science Fiction & Fact has bought my novelette "Keepsakes". My guess is that it will appear sometime late in the year.
Because my ability to edit my Writertopia page seems to have vanished, I am now "transferring my flag," as it were, to LJ. From now on, my bibliography will appear here (until and unless I get a web site of my own): Collections: Anthems Outside Time and Other Strange Voices […]
I will be attending MidAmericaCon II in Kansas City, August 17-21: my first Worldcon ever! I'm very excited. Here's my schedule: Whose DNA is it? Thursday, 1:00 p.m., Room 2206 Helen Pennington (moderator), Marguerite Kenner, Howard Rosenblat, Kenneth Schneyer Panelists discuss DNA and your privacy, from a legal perspective. What […]
My strange little story "Some Pebbles in the Palm" is now available in both text and audio formats on Lightspeed Magazine. http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/some-pebbles-in-the-palm/
Here's my schedule for Boskone 53, February 19-21, 2016, at the Westin Boston Waterfront: Friday, 7:00 PM, Griffin Reading: Kenneth Schneyer. I'll be reading my short story, "Who Embodied What We Are". Saturday, 10:00 AM, Marina 4 Theories of Time Travel As improbable as it seems, is time travel possible? […]
I have only a few stories eligible for awards for 2015 (or, you know, for 2016, but published in 2015…), all in the Short Story category. The one I'm singling out is "The Plausibility of Dragons", Lightspeed Magazine #66 (November 2015). There are a number of reasons that I'm foregrounding this […]
Here's my schedule for Arisia 2016, January 15-18, Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel: The Future of Mars – Literature, Panel – 1hr 15min – Faneuil (3W) – Friday 8:30 p.m. We grew up reading about Barsoom and the Mars of Wells and Bradbury. Today, we’re finally exploring the reality of the […]
At Readercon I had the pleasure of serving on a panel with the delightful and brilliant Nicola Griffith, author of many acclaimed novels, most recently her fascinating, award-winning book Hild (2013), about the early life of the seventh-century saint Hilda of Whitby. It was my second time meeting her; the […]
Here is my schedule of commitments for Readercon 26, which will be July 9-12 in Burlington, MA: Friday: 3:00 PM The Genre-Sized Chip on the Shoulder. Nicola Griffith, Sandra Kasturi, Eugene Mirabelli, Kenneth Schneyer (moderator), Peter Straub. Discrimination against speculative literature still exists, but it appears to be fading […]
Here's my schedule for Boskone 52, February 13-15 at the Westin Boston Waterfront. Hmmm, they have me moderating three (!) panels, and doing three (!) readings. I'd better get to work. * * * * * Reading: Kenneth Schneyer Friday 21:30 – 21:55, Griffin Kenneth Schneyer Dune — 50 Years […]
Here are my commitments (so far) for Readercon this year: Thursday, July 10, 9:00 PM F Theater and the Interrupted Ritual. C.S.E. Cooney, Greer Gilman, Andrea Hairston (moderator), Kenneth Schneyer. Theater theorists have put forth the idea that most theater begins with an interrupted ritual. This goes back to […]
My story “Keeping Tabs”, originally published in Abyss & Apex in 2011, is now available on Escape Pod, read by Dani Cutler. Rated PG-13 for violence, sexual situations, and vulgar language.
I’ve been tagged by the marvelous Heather Albano (author of the e-novels Timepiece and Timekeeper, and famous writer for Choice of Games) for The Next Big Thing Blog Hop. This sort of thing is normally aimed at novelists, but I adapted it to fit one of my upcoming stories: What […]
My tentative schedule for Arisia 2013, January 18-21: Friday, 7:00 – 8:15 p.m. (Bullfinch 3W) A Hero Like Me — Vikki Ciaffone (m), Genevieve Iseult Eldredge, Catt Kingsgrave-Ernstein, Suzanne Reynolds-Alpert, Ken Schneyer: How much does a reader want to be able to identify with the protagonist of a story? Does […]
For those of you who are SFWA members, here are my 2012 stories that are eligible for the Nebula Awards: Novelette: "Serkers and Sleep", Beneath Ceaseless Skies #96 (May 31, 2012). Short Stories: "Financial Strategies for Innovative Researchers", Mad Scientist Journal (October, 2012). "Confinement", SQ Mag #2 (May 2012) (Finalist […]
My odd little story, "Financial Strategies for Innovative Researchers" is now available at Mad Scientist Journal. Enjoy!
I’m very pleased to report that Strange Horizons has bought my story, “Hear the Enemy, My Daughter”. SH is just about the perfect market for this piece. The first draft was written with the support of my Kickstarter project. (Yes, it takes me a long time to move from first […]
UPDATE: This schedule is now CONFIRMED. The full Readercon 23 schedule is now up here. A handy grid version is available here. I’m going to be giving four readings at Readercon 23, to be held July 12-15 at the Burlington Marriott, Burlington, MA. I’m also serving on two panels. New […]
Here’s my schedule for the upcoming Boskone 49 at the Boston Westin Waterfront, Feb 17-19: Panel: SF/F/H in the Classroom, Fri 18:00 – 19:00, Griffin B.A. Chepaitis, F. Brett Cox, Jack M. Haringa (M), Kenneth Schneyer Description: Kids today don’t have to hide their SF book in class. It is […]
Here are my five short stories that are eligible for the Nebula Award this year. Three of them are currently available for free online, and the other two have been posted to the appropriate SFWA forums. “The Mannequin’s Itch“, The Pedestal Magazine #67 (December 21, 2011). (Audio version available at […]
I am inordinately fond of time travel stories. I’ve published a few of my own, (see, e.g., (“Liza’s Home”, “Conflagration” and “The Never Fair”), and long argued that their juxtaposition and confusion of memory and expectation allow for a kind of emotional resonance you can’t achieve anywhere else. Tell me […]
Here is my review of Timepiece by Heather Albano. Jane Austen Characters in an H. G. Wells Situation If Elizabeth Bennett or Eleanor Dashwood had been given the choice of living the privileged, restricted Regency life into which they were born, on the one hand, or hurtling into the future […]
Here is my schedule for Readercon 22, July 14-17, Burlington, MA. Friday July 15 11:00 AM (Rhode Island Room) What Writing Workshops Do and Don’t Offer Leah Bobet, Michael J. DeLuca, Eileen Gunn, Barry B. Longyear, Geoff Ryman, Kenneth Schneyer (leader) Clarion, Clarion West, Clarion South, and Odyssey all follow […]
My guest blog-post on Fantasy Matters concerning genres. Illusion or Fact? http://fantasy-matters.com/node/62
Those who have been interested in the Science Fiction course I discussed earlier can now see the Syllabus, paper assignments, author links and other related stuff on the LibGuide for the course: http://jwu-ri.libguides.com/lit4010_schneyer Enjoy!
I’m happy to report that I have joined the Cambridge Science Fiction Workshop (CSFW).
I just learned that Sam Montgomery-Blinn at BULL SPEC is going to buy my flash story, “Less Than Absent.” Happy to appear in a feisty new market!
I’ve been trying to work my way through all of the Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning novels I haven’t yet read (which are legion), in between reading new short fiction etc. Yesterday I got to Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War. Yes, I know it’s shocking and shameful for an SF buff, not […]
I’ve been trying to work my way through all of the Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning novels I haven’t yet read (which are legion), in between reading new short fiction etc. Yesterday I got to Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War. Yes, I know it’s shocking and shameful for an SF buff, not […]
My story “Tenure Track” (which I wrote during week 6 of Clarion) is now available for free on Cosmos Online. Enjoy!
I’m happy to say that Cosmos Online will publish my SF story "Tenure Track". This is my first sale of a story actually written at the Clarion Writers Workshop. It was my final (Week 6) story, written in an usual (to say the least!) style. I’ve also sold both of my Clarion […]
The 2010 Hugo nominees include at least three stories that puzzle over the nature of love. This is nothing new for science fiction, but it is remarkable to me that they arose at about the same time, and that many people were reading them in tandem, as it were, in […]
Skip the other stuff and just turn to page 57. 🙂 Deleriously happy.
You can now read my story "Conflagration" on The Newport Review web page. Enjoy!
Alexander Jablokov is one of my science fiction heroes. I read the novella version of "A Deeper Sea" back in 1989, and it inspired me to start reading SF short fiction again. His collection The Breath of Suspension took my own breath away, especially the story "Living Will," which is […]
Redstone Science Fiction is a new online SF mag that will publish stories of 4,000 words or less and pay pro rates (5 cents/word). They open for submissions on March 15.
My report from the Clarion Writers Workshop, Weeks Five and Six
My report from the Clarion Writers Workshop, Week 4
Clarion Report, Week Three
Kenneth Schneyer 