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Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story by Jay Lake and Shannon Page
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 4/1/2009
Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story by Jay Lake and Shannon Page
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Rough Beast slouched toward the Bethlehem steel mill. Tons of fresh hot metal in there, every cobber and new chum from the Allegheny to the Delaware knew that. Even Topper, the old cat-eyed bastard with steel cables for fingers and a brain stewed in barium-laced æther, knew which way the ...
brenda-cooper.com - 3/29/2009
A Story of Engagement
— brenda-cooper.com — I usually wake up with fiction stories in my head. I’ve kept writing fiction in the last... month, but the stories in my head lately have mostly been blogs. Here’s the futurist take on it: Earth has become a computer connected world. ... (more) A Story of Engagement

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[fiction] New story live at Clarkesworld
Lakeshore — "Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story by calendula_with and me is live at Clarkesworld, for the April, 2009 issue. calendula_witch comments here on her first pro publication. ...

[links] Link salad crossed its old man back in Oregon
Lakeshore — "Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story by calendula_with and me is live at Clarkesworld — calendula_witch comments here. "Rolling Steel" in audio format, too scalzi explains The Sounds of METAtropolis Free For a Limited Time — Download the Hugo-nominated audiobook gratis. arcaedia with new guidelines for queries Moses is ...

Friday Free Fiction for 3rd April
Futurismic — ... “Rolling Steel: a Pre-apocalyptic Love Story” by Jay Lake and Shannon Page ...

41 Free Fantastic Fictions
SF Signal — ... Drop" (Jim Baen's Universe Vol. 3 No. 6, April 2009) James Alan Gardner: "The One with the Interstellar Group Consciousnesses" (Federations Anthology, 2009) Caitlín R. Kiernan: "Les Fleurs Empoisonnées" [vt In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers] (Subterranean, 2002) Caitlín R. Kiernan: "The Well of Stars and Shadow" (Gothic.net, 2002) Nancy Kress: "The Erdmann Nexus" (Asimov's, October 2008) Jay Lake & Shannon Page: "Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story" (Clarkesworld, April 2009) John ...

[publishing] A visit to Science Fiction World in Chengdu
Lakeshore — ... , "Rolling Steel: A Pre-apocalyptic Love Story". We also talked about his work as a translator and editor, and what it meant to write fiction as opposed to translate. I expressed my profound respect for anyone who can work in two languages, and mentioned both Kathy Sedia and Sarah Hoyt as examples of this in the American scene — writers for whom English is not their cradle language, but who write with more grace and beauty than most of us native speakers. We also discussed the dearth of Chinese fiction in translation, and a little bit about Cordwainer ...

[links] Link salad wakes up with a clear head, finally
Lakeshore — A reader reviews "Rolling Steel" by calendula_witch and me — Specifically, she talks about the podcast version, read by Sean Farrell and Mur Lafferty. The soda-pop map — I used to say "Coke" generically, these days I say "soda." Where do you fall on this continuum? (Thanks to garyomaha.) Bridge to Nowhere: a Map of Golden Gate Jumpers — Another odd one from Strange Maps. Solar for Dark Climates — I love ...

[personal|writing] The joys of getting skunked
Lakeshore — ... is, I got rejected from that anthology. Now, I don't generally blog about rejections, other than to occasionally note their accumulation. And I still get rejected roughly three times for every sale I make. (Though that statistic decomposes in a more complex fashion than is intuitively obvious — the current terrain of my writing career is a topic for another time.) But here is an intersection. We are two writers in a passionate relationship, working together ("Rolling Steel", Our Lady of the Islands, etc.) as well as separately. And ...

[awards] A largely complete 2009 bibliography, as it is Nebula time
Lakeshore — ... "Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story" (with Shannon Page); Clarkesworld; April, 2009 [short story] ...

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