MABFAN Newsletter #43 (November 2004)

[mabfan]

The new MABFAN Newsletter can be found by clicking here; it's basically just a reminder that I have a story, "Seventy-Five Years," in the January/February 2004 Analog.

Also, shsilver pointed out to me that another article about Jewish science fiction for which I was interviewed has been posted here. For those who don't want to click through, my only mention is as follows:

The short story "Lifeblood" (2003), by Michael Burstein, has a cantor rescue a Jewish family threatened by a vampire. "I think every Jewish fantasy writer wants to write a scene," says Burstein, "where somebody holds up a Star of David to scare away a vampire."

Comments

[lisafeld.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to tell you, "Seventy-Five Years" is great! It's a wonderful extrapolation, and I liked the badgering intimacy between the two protagonists. (Can't bring myself to put either of them in the antagonist role, even though they do plenty of that...)

Looking forward to reading whatever comes next!

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm glad you liked the story.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Neil, I'm going to delete this post because it contains the most major spoiler possible for this story, and I'd rather the story have a chance to surprise people before they read it...

[neilfein.livejournal.com]

That's cool. It would be nice if there was some way to make these comments viewable to the original poster only... kinda like security but for comments.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

That's what email is for. :-)

[neilfein.livejournal.com]

Can't access personal email at work... our firewall is powered by the Partiot act, so to speak.