The wonderful rcloenen_ruiz has a highly thought-provoking post up on The Future Fire editors' blog, and also as a guest post on kateelliott's lj, so read and post to whichever you like Also, in the post Rochita mentions the We see a different frontier project, which I have been meaning to signal-boost in general, so! here Otherwise, major...
...And that is how I came to write a satirical Rondeau in French from the Unnamed Ruler of a fantastical 18th century Syria addressed to the Mechanical Padishah Begum of a fantastical Mughal Empire, mocking in French the poor French attempts at fomenting dissent between civilized allies. As one does. *bounces*...
thurs & fri, when I was here more & also doing otherstuff. Then I crashed. Still crashed. That is all....
So, the Mughal Empire was founded by descendants of the Timurids, who ruled much of Central Asia. It began in 1526 and went into decline after Aurangzeb died in 1707; it limped on, in name at least, till 1857, but for much of that time it was actually a British puppet state. At its greatest (actual-historical) extent, around 1700, it covered...
So there's a PW review of the Mammoth Book of Steampunk! And it's starred, and very positive, and mentions my story, so awesome! Except for one thing. The reviewer seems to think that (Mughal) India is in the Middle East: ...Shweta Narayan and Amal El-Mohtar’s stories take place in fantastic versions of the Middle East. Um. No? They're...
Stone Telling is open for subs, and has been for a bit! My bad for not signal boosting earlier. But! I finally have the spoons to go read all the slush, so please do send some more lovely stuff along to poetry at stonetelling dot com. The reading period for issue 8 (which is unthemed, so send us anything ST-y!) goes till June 10th. But don't wait...
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