Posts Tagged ‘China’

Halloween Horrors: The Teaming Basement

Thursday, October 29th, 2020

Imagine that you’re a well-off Chinese businessman who lives in a posh condo in Beijing.

Now imagine that you start seeing people in your building who are decidedly un-posh, people who actually seem to be quite poor, but somehow they’re living in your building.

Seems your building has unwanted guests. Just like the spider man of Denver, or the Japanese man who found out an unwanted guest had been living in his house a year.

Only on a much bigger scale.

How much bigger?

Think 400 people.

So you remember: If you live in an apartment building or condo, and start seeing strange people, there may be more of them than you think…

Library Addition: World’s Science Fiction Story Collection II

Saturday, January 27th, 2018

Here’s something I didn’t buy, it showed up on my doorstep as a contributor copy:

Haijun, Yao and Mike Resnick, editors. World’s Science Fiction Story Collection II (ISBN 978-7-5364-8711-6). Sichuan Science and Technology Publishing House, 2017. Trade paperback original, a Fine copy, still in shrinkwrap. Chinese language anthology that prints a translation of my story “Crucifixion Variations.”

I’m pretty sure this is the only time my name has appeared higher on a cover than Robert Silverberg’s…

Tianjin, China Blows Up Real Good

Thursday, August 13th, 2015

In case you missed the video, a fuel depot in Tianjin, a port city in northern China at about the same latitude of Pyongyang, blew up Real Good yesterday: