ISFDB index:
- Editorial (Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, April 1994) • essay by Algis Budrys
- 2 • Affair of Honor • shortstory by Delores Goodrick Beggs
- 9 • Lovebirds • novelette by William Shockley
- 16 • After the Whirlwind • novella by Paula May
- 33 • Slime and Sty • shortstory by John Flynt
- 38 • The Passing of the Beacon Star • shortstory by Chuck Rothman
- 43 • Attack at Dawn • (1994) • shortstory by Harlan Ellison
- 45 • Bicyclefish Island • novelette by Daniel P. Dern
- 54 • Planned Obsolescence • shortstory by Sten Westgard
- 60 • Dance to the Sun (Part 2 of 4) • serial by William Esrac
- 77 • Writing (Part 8 of 9) • essay by Algis Budrys
- 80 • Bedtime • shortfiction by Todd Mason
Also, this is about the 25th anniversary of my first professional sale of poetry to a magazine, Janet Fox's Scavenger's Newsletter.
Much later issues of Scav...
Much later issues of Scav...
9 comments:
Happy Dual Anniversary, Todd! Anything in the publishing pipeline coming in 2014?
Happy anniversary. I subbed to Tomorrow, but I suppose all my issues would up at Texas A&M. Or else I gave them to someone else. All I know is that I no longer have them.
Thanks, folks!
Nothing much yet, BV. Keeping up with the rest of life is already quite a ride at the moment.
I hope they're in good hands one way or another, Bill...it was a solid magazine, even if only rarely did it publish extraordinarily good fiction.
Happy Anniversary! Being in the same magazine with Harlan Ellison is pretty exclusive company!
So cool! And you're on the cover—it says "others." Somehow I didn't know you wrote fiction. Color me impressed.
Congratulations Todd - and what great company to be in -those lucky people!
George--Well, having Budrys buy the story was more happiness than I thought I'd achieve at the time...and I might've been even more chuffed to have been in the same issue with Avram Davidson, but the Ellison story was better...Budrys would publish a number of his own vignettes and shorts under his established pseuds (William Scarff, etc.)...
Well, Kelly, what did you think that old-man grumping on your blog was about? This story was also shortlisted by Ellen Datlow in her and Terri Windling's annual for its year, and got me a nice letter from Karl Edward Wagner, as well as a very good little check from Budrys. (In the review of the issue in TANGENT magazine, the reviewer demonstrated not understanding it at all...I hadn't realized I was being so cryptic.) Other stories have been nominated for various awards and/or been singled out by various editors and readers, and I've won some campus writing awards back when, but I haven't sought to publish nearly enough.
Now, Sergio...though, hey, it might well've been Sten Westgard's first pro sale, too...
Happy Anniversary and many congratulations, Todd! Do you still write fiction and poetry?
Thanks! I do, Prashant, albeit sporadically. There are a few examples of fiction littered about the blog, some notionally OK. I've written some light verse, including a haiku published by THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION the other year, but more often in the public eye more informally.
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