The Waterdancer's World by L. Timmel Duchamp, is forthcoming from Aqueduct Press in October 2016. Humans have been struggling to live on Frogmore for almost five centuries, adapting themselves to punishing gravity and the deadly mistflowers that dominate its ecology. Financier Inez Gauthier, patron of the arts and daughter of the general commanding the planet’s occupation forces, dreams of eliminating the mistflowers that make exploitation of the planet’s natural wealth so difficult and impede her father's efforts to crush the native insurgency. Fascinated by the new art-form of waterdancing created by Solstice Balalzalar celebrating the planet’s indigenous lifeforms, Inez assumes that her patronage will be enough to sustain Solstice’s art even as she ruthlessly pursues windfall profits at the expense of all that has made waterdancing possible.
Madeleine Rose Dimond and Christopher N. Brown interviewed L. Timmel Duchamp before a live audience at Armadillocon 37 on July 25, 2015, asking her about her writing and publishing career. Chris taped the interview and has made it available for download. You can download it or listen to it here.
L. Timmel Duchamp will be the Editor GoH at this year's Armadillocon, which will take place in Austin, TX, July 24-26, 2015. She will be one of the instructors in the writing workshop. Ken Liu will be the Author GoH, Stina Leicht will be the Toastmaster, and John DeNardo the Fan GoH.
L. Timmel Duchamp will be holding a One-Day Clarion West Workshop on March 15, 2015, in Seattle, "How To Read as a Writer." Critiques from a variety of readers give writers insight into how the words they’ve put on the page are being transformed into the stories that unfold in their readers’ heads. This workshop will offer insight into how others are reading your story and help make it into the story you would like them to be reading. More details can be found at http://www.clarionwest.org/workshops/oneday/.
Doing Things with Ideas
Last night after reading the first three chapters of Gore Vidal’s Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, a mannered essay on the framing of the US Constitution, I experienced a moment familiar to science fiction writers. To depict this moment a cartoonist would draw an image of a woman holding a copy of the book, a finger marking her place and a light-bulb glowing over her head. Thomas Jefferson, Vidal remarks, “had a wild attachment, at times, to radical sentiments.” (79) One of the “radical sentiments” Vidal mentions is Jefferson’s advocacy of creating a tabula rasa for government and legal institutions every twenty years...
L. Timmel Duchamp has been nominated for a World Fantasy Award, in the Special Award--Nonprofessional category, for her work as the publisher and editor of Aqueduct Press. The 2013 World Fantasy Awards will be presented in Brighton during the WFC. The complete list of nominations can be found at http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/.
Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse is an anthology of short fictions by Nisi Shawl, Anna Tambour, Lucy Sussex, Mark Rich, and others. Ever wonder who that frequent addressee of Anglophone Nineteenth century narrators, “Dear Reader,” really was? About Nancy Drew's mother? Or what the true story on which Edgar Allan Poe based his melodramatic “Fall of the House of Usher" was ? Perhaps it never occurred to you to wonder if there might be a relationship between H.G. Wells’ Dr. Moreau and Joseph Conrad's Col.
The Waterdancer's World by L. Timmel Duchamp, is forthcoming from Aqueduct Press in October 2016. Humans have been struggling to live on Frogmore for almost five centuries, adapting themselves to punishing gravity and the deadly mistflowers that dominate its ecology. Financier Inez Gauthier, patron of the arts and daughter of the general commanding the planet’s occupation forces, dreams of eliminating the mistflowers that make exploitation of the planet’s natural wealth so difficult and impede her father's efforts to crush the native insurgency. Fascinated by the new art-form of waterdancing created by Solstice Balalzalar celebrating the planet’s indigenous lifeforms, Inez assumes that her patronage will be enough to sustain Solstice’s art even as she ruthlessly pursues windfall profits at the expense of all that has made waterdancing possible. 