Jack Skillingstead

Twenty-one years after my first pro sale made print, someone reviewed it!

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Hope you fully recover soon.

"The Howling Man" Charles Beaumont wrote the Twilight Zone script from his own short story. A long time ago I read the story to my little kids on Halloween. Pleasant dreams, kids!

Reading this early Berlin novel by Nabokov, one of my favorite writers. A deceptively simple story. Love the covers of these Vintage editions.

Blitz. New movie on Apple TV. I had some quibbles but it still gets my high recommendation. Parts of the child's journey on the train and later through the London blitz were Dickensian in the best sense, with that weird flavor of heightened beauty and horror.

Hint: it's the off-set cover text on these matching editions. I keep wanting to nudge the title and author up or down. I have been assured that Im crazy to even notice~

Minor breakthrough on this story when my character has a dream about his father being transformed into a crow chained to a desk and pecking at typewriter keys. It makes sense, trust me!

Currently reading.

For all my OCD friends. For everyone else, I envy you.

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"Salvage Opportunity" is amazing. I love a good lonely drama, and robots/what makes them more, is a personal kink of mine. That they're all existing just to stake a hold on a planet is such a fun setup for the 'hell is being alone with your own damage' scenario. The end is ❤️👍

Thanks, Erin! I really got lucky with Salvage Opportunity. It just fell together like a gift. It's one of my favorite stories~

I should do that. Strangely, a couple of weeks ago TwiXt starting showing that I had zero followers, though I've had about 400 for years. I figured it was a glitch but by now it seems permanent, though people tell me they are still following.

From Earth to the Stars The Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Author & Editor Blog

Here's a short piece about the dream logic of "The Ledgers," my latest Asimov's story. Hey, if you love short stories like I do you might consider subscribing time the mag.

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Let the games begin.

Bought in the 80s but kept bouncing off the title story. Remained on various shelves in various rooms for decades. Once in a while I'd look at it. Decades don't feel real. Tonight I finally read the story. It was good. The paper had turned yellow. The cover came off. When does my cover come off?

Paul Di Filippo Reviews The Whole Mess and Other Stories by Jack Skillingstead The Whole Mess and Other Stories, Jack Skillingstead (Fairwood Press 978-1958880128, trade paperback, 334pp, $20.95) November 2023 Reading Jack Skillingstead’s second story collection drives home t�...

I told you, people. I told you. Read this glowing and accurate review of @jackskill.bsky.social 's new collection, THE WHOLE MESS.

R.I.P. Michael Bishop. Wonderful writer and one of the kindest people I've ever known. Not that I knew him well, but with Michael even a handfull of encounters tells what kind of person he was. Besides talking at a conventions over the years we carried on a brief correspondence. He will be missed.

UBS presents Jack Skillingstead, Nancy Kress, and Daryl Gregory It's a Science fiction, fantasy & horror night at the bookstore

Seattle people! We're celebrating the launch of Jack Skillingstead's terrific new collection, THE WHOLE MESS. Come out Wed Nov 15 to University Book Store. Jack, Nancy Kress, and Me will be reading. @jackskill.bsky.social

I hope to god they don't follow through with this. What an insult to artists. And you're right, John. Eventually the AI will be capable of successfully imitating human writers.

Designated dolphin right of way.

Cool!

What a great idea!

Thanks!

Me, too, Amy.

This event in Brooklyn was a lot of fun. From left to right: Randee Dawn (organizer), me, Nancy Kress, Vajra Chandrasekera (debut novelist, Richard Jeffrey Newman (poet), and Stephanie Wrobel (thriller novelist).

Will tea be served?