Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Don't make so much noise. Gardner's dozin'.

Jayme Lynn Blaschke reports that Gardner Dozois, the longtime editor of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, is stepping down. Maybe the new editor will actually buy my stuff for once; I mean, how many more Charles Stross stories do we really need, anyway? Sheesh.

(Actually, the correct answer there is "A lot", since Stross is awfully good. Sigh. Well, maybe we can lay off the Robert Silverberg stories...nah, he's good too. Double sigh.)

Failing that, maybe the new editor can at least rewrite the standard Asimov's rejection letter, the one that basically says, "We can't take time to tell you exactly why we're rejecting your story, but the odds are overwhelming that it was crap." Oh well, best of luck to Dozois, a guy whose reaction to my well-wishes would almost certainly be, "Who the f*** is he?!"

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