Other Worlds

Author: Donna Royston

  • Hugo Awards: Best Short Story Contenders (2)

    In Mike Resnick’s “The Homecoming,” on the Hugo ballot for best short story, a young man has been transformed into insectoid alien creature, to his father’s horror. Philip, we learn, is an exobiologist who undertook the transformation in order to study an alien world. The story follows what happens when Philip returns home to visit…

  • Hugo Awards: Best Short Story Contenders (1)

    The voting deadline for the Hugos is 6 days away, so I am taking a look at the five finalists on the ballot for Best Short Story. First is John Scalzi’s “The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City: Prologue” (whew). This story is a lot of fun. It is somewhat…

  • The Emperor Crushes a Pearl

    “The First Censor’s Statement” was published by Copperfield Review in 2008, but when they revamped the site recently, they didn’t retain their archives. So I make the story available again here.

  • What Use is a Journal?

    When I was a teaching assistant in grad school, my adviser showed me an English 101 journal that he was grading, full of a student’s lovesick descriptions of her boyfriend. I think it was that moment that gave me a horror of journals–pointless, purposeless, desperate filling-up of pages, they seemed. I didn’t understand what a…

  • Write-a-thon for Clarion West

    I started this blog so that those following me or sponsoring me during the Write-a-thon would have a place to come. I’ll be writing daily and posting daily, but I generally won’t be posting the current day’s work. If you enjoy what you read, please donate to Clarion West!