"A door brought a change of subject."
--Allan Kausch
photo by Rosalie Winard
My short story "About It" is in the new (Sept/Oct) Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine. It's about a monster.
BILLY'S PICTURE BOOK 13 stories by TB with art by Rudy Rucker is online for FREE. This is a kids' book but it's not for kids. It's for old people of all ages.
My most literary short story ever, "The Cockroach Hat" is up on TOR.COM. (Meanwhile my southern gothic “TVA Baby” and my little shop story “Catch ‘Em in the Act” are both archived on Tor.com. )
PM Press has published a handsome new edition of FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN, my 1988 novel about what might have been if abolitionist John Brown’s anti-slavery Harper's Ferry raid had succeeded. This alternate history utopia was done in France as Nova Africa. The new PM edition has an introduction by Mumia Abu Jamal.
Fellow SF scribbler and internet wizard Cory Doctorow gave "Fire" a great review on BOING BOING. The October '09 MONTHLY REVIEW has my short commentary on Brown's career and continued influence.
PM also presents Outspoken Authors, a series of edgy Left paperbacks (which I am editing). The first two are The Lucky Strike by Kim Stanley Robinson (his classic Hiroshima tale plus lots of new material) and my own The Left Left Behind, about the Rapture.
The series continues with Eleanor Arnason's magnificent Mammoths of the Great Plains. It's about just what it says it's about. The legendary Michael Moorcock is scheduled for Fall with a new Jerry Cornelius adventure, Modem Times 2.0. And Ursula K. LeGuin is in the house ...
PM has scheduled my new (4th) short fiction collection, TVA BABY, for Spring 2011. It consists almost entirely of thrilling adventures in Space, Time and Wal-Mart. Meanwhile my new novel ANY DAY NOW is circling New York.
My quixotic novella Planet of Mystery and Billy’s Book, a gift collection of sentimental childhood tales (see above), are both available from PS Press in England. So is Dear Abbey, my stapledonian voyage to the End of Time.
Recent media work includes ROBESON, a screenplay about the neglected hero for Four Stars (Hollywood & Auckland) and a screenplay adaptation of my first Playboy story, NECRONAUTS which will be a 3-D feature from Komodo Films (Jakarta). Brian Yuzna of Re-Animator fame is the Producer.
Other activities include This Month in History, a regular feature in Locus magazine, and SF in SF, the monthly author reading series in downtown San Francisco. Saturday September 11 features Amelia Beamer and Mark L. Van Name.