I blundered onto Flurb after wandering through the Terry Bisson showcase and going from hither to yon.

This sort of intellectual input is of vital importance to me, as living in Jakarta is pleasant but mentally rarely challenging. I blame it on Islam: “Everything you need to know, or think, or talk about is in The Holy Book.” Makes for some pretty intellectually stunted citizens.

Jesus was most likely much closer to the individual portrayed by Mr. Shirley than the dour, disapproving authoritarian figure in the Bible.

I invite my fellow fantasy-followers to visit me at http://www.iglu-cilutung.blogspot.com.

Aloha

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Alright. Third, Mr. Saknussemm scared the bejeezerous outta me with that Fitzpatrick’s Disease. I’d convert to Shirleyism, but he’d toss me out to gnash my teeth elsewhere. Anders’ touch on things rolls me on the floor with laughter, and thank you, Eileen Gunn, I’ll never watch Trek the same way again.

The Ribofunk monster strikes once more. I feel dirty and uplifted all at once. And I like it. My mind reels at the potential of a Herbert-verse. I shriek at the thought of getting caught in Mr. Tonnie’s temporal doughnut, always fried and never eaten.

Vlad for President, dammet. Blast it, Mr. Metzer, you make me doubt the veracity of my afternoon’s tossed salad! And thank goodness, Mr. Laidlaw, for revealing the ties that bind are deeper and more mysterious than xp’s.

When time comes for the Voyage to the Great Beyond, I hope i get Mr. Shook as a guide. And a direct line to the lazy-eight Sirius vaults. Is that too much to ask? Is it too much to need more Flurb?

I find short stories are actually pretty good for smart phones…wouldn’t want to read a whole novel that way, but it’s handy when you’re stuck somewhere without a book.

In any case, I’d rather not get into posting alternate formats on FLURB, mainly because I don’t want to spend the extra time on a task that’s likely to benefit relatively frew readers. This is, after all, a free webzine done for idealism and not for money, and I have to be reasonable about how much I spend on it.

Stricktly speaking I’m not sure you should post the files yourself, as you don’t have individual agreements with the authors—and I’m not currently in the position to grant these rights, nor do I much feel like pestering my authors about whether they would grant these rights.

All this said, if someone actually wants these formats, they might consider privately contacting Dersk whose home page is?

I’ve just converted all the stories to a series of Mobipocket Reader format .prc’s for my smart phone. Anyone want them? Rudy, would you like to post them on your site? If not, I can always put them up on a page on my site.

Thank you for making these gems available.

Guy

I enjoyed the Shirley piece very much (haven’t finished the whole issue yet).

It’s interesting to conjecture how you, the editor, would define SF, because the Magdalene piece seems to be on the cusp of other genres, or of being outside of genre altogether.

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