Author Archives: Rick Novy

My story Chaos Theory went live at Darker Matter on June 1st. You can read it for free right here. www.ricknovy.com

Wow. I finally found a home for the most travelled and the second-oldest story in my inventory. Sells in its 23rd market. It’s been on the market constantly since October of 2004. Here’s where it’s been: Weird TalesZahirThe IconoclastShort Stuff MagazineApexAlien SkinShimmerStory House CoffeeSon and FoeCabinet Des FeesThe PedestalFlash MeLone… Continue reading →

See if this quiz can accurately detect your accent. I’m originanlly from Wisconsin and live in Arizona, so I think this quiz averaged my accents together. http://www.youthink.com/quiz.asp?action=take&quiz_id=9827 What American accent do you have? (Best version so far) Midland (“Midland” is not necessarily the same thing as “Midwest”) The default, lowest-common-denominator… Continue reading →

A bit of a disagreement within SFWA has lead to Monday, 23 April, being dubbed International Pixel-Stained Tehnopeasant Day. It stems from a disagreement about posting work in the internet for free. I’ll not go into the sordid details. If you really want to know, you can google it. What… Continue reading →

Heard friday that the new online magazine “Darker Matter” wants my story “Chaos Theory” for issue 4. Heard today that online magazine “The Martian Wave” wants my story “Oh, Mallary!” I’ll post when they are available as both are free publications. www.ricknovy.com

My flash parody went live this evening at Alien Skin magazine. www.ricknovy.com

Aargh! I’ve been infected with a virus that emails spam. Norton detects a dozen emails at a time, most of them caught either by Norton or my ISP. Still being stuck on dial-up probably saved me from hundreds of Japanese spam filter lists. That seems to be where most of… Continue reading →

I just added a feature to the bibliography page on my web site. After each fiction listing, there is now a hyperlink called Info. Click on the link and you will be taken to a page that provides the details fo the story, an excerpt, quotes from any reviews, and… Continue reading →

Alien Skin magazine accepted my story “Kfzhrbfl” for their April/May 2007 issue. It’s a goofy little flash fiction piece that probably found the right home. It’s also the goofiest title I’ve ever used. The story is something of a parody on neophyte science fiction writers, who tend to give aliens… Continue reading →

Finished two of the three short stories I had been working on. One went to Analog, the other went to Asimov’s. The interesting thing I tried this time was writing inside the universe where my novels take place. One story involves Ike Mudge, the Neanderthal clone. In fact, it’s a… Continue reading →