http://www.demontheory.net demontheory.net Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:35:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/DemonTheoryhttp://feedburner.google.com http://www.demontheory.net/?p=284 http://www.demontheory.net/?p=284#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:35:14 +0000 Stephen Main http://www.demontheory.net/?p=284 Especial for Halloweentime, “The Ones That Got Away,” the somewhat-title story from the new collection and proud participant in Paul Tremblay and Sean Wallace’s Phantom: Going Beyond the Scare. ]]> http://www.demontheory.net/?feed=rss2&p=284 http://www.demontheory.net/?p=283 http://www.demontheory.net/?p=283#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:28:32 +0000 Stephen Main http://www.demontheory.net/?p=283 One of the big axioms of storytelling is that you know a character best by the decisions he or she makes under extreme circumstances. It’s why you push your characters out into the street, see how they react when traffic’s slamming in from all sides at once. Granted, you can rig your story so that [...]]]> http://www.demontheory.net/?feed=rss2&p=283 http://www.demontheory.net/?p=282 http://www.demontheory.net/?p=282#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:43:07 +0000 Stephen Main http://www.demontheory.net/?p=282 Got an article/review/essay (’response?’) up for it over at Popmatters. Kind of wanted to call it Geppetto mon Amour, but figured that might show my roots too much. Those being all in France, yes. The LINK. Would slap some cool images up here, too, but the guys who do the art over at Popmatters have [...]]]> http://www.demontheory.net/?feed=rss2&p=282 http://www.demontheory.net/?p=281 http://www.demontheory.net/?p=281#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:02:31 +0000 Stephen Main http://www.demontheory.net/?p=281 I read this review then, no lie, went upstairs, found some shrimp on the counter, ate them. which, for those in the know [see below], kind of matters. too, I’ve noticed my blog posts in here lately are more ‘blog’ posts, as in, they take the space where a blog post would go, but, really, they’re [...]]]> http://www.demontheory.net/?feed=rss2&p=281 http://www.demontheory.net/?p=280 http://www.demontheory.net/?p=280#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:16:05 +0000 Stephen Main http://www.demontheory.net/?p=280 “In the Beginning” and “The Wages: an Argument,” over at the brand-new shiny sparkly SpringGun Press. Really strange that they posted this morning, though — or, that that Wages-one’s real now anyway. Because I just now started the already-excellent Pontypool Changes Everything, which opens like this: That night I had terrible dreams I was killing people. When [...]]]> http://www.demontheory.net/?feed=rss2&p=280 http://www.demontheory.net/?p=279 http://www.demontheory.net/?p=279#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:02:23 +0000 Stephen Main http://www.demontheory.net/?p=279 One of my favorite Bowie songs, sure, but, too, the name of a story of mine up over at Everyday Genius today. ]]> http://www.demontheory.net/?feed=rss2&p=279 http://www.demontheory.net/?p=278 http://www.demontheory.net/?p=278#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:13:02 +0000 Stephen Main http://www.demontheory.net/?p=278 Chapter one’s up, over at the very cool Plots With Guns. ]]> http://www.demontheory.net/?feed=rss2&p=278 http://www.demontheory.net/?p=277 http://www.demontheory.net/?p=277#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:55:30 +0000 Stephen Main http://www.demontheory.net/?p=277 Iron Horse 11.3’s out in the world now — in my mailbox anyway — and it’s got one of my favorite stories I’ve written in it, “Little Lambs.” Also a self-interview (it involved telepathic dogs, possibly aliens — the usual?). Too, it’s the alumni issue, so it’s especially cool to me, being in this with [...]]]> http://www.demontheory.net/?feed=rss2&p=277 http://www.demontheory.net/?p=276 http://www.demontheory.net/?p=276#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:48:16 +0000 Stephen Main http://www.demontheory.net/?p=276 Readercon report: got to sit down with Ellen Datlow, got to shake hands with Peter Straub, got to listen to Samuel Delaney and Gene Wolf talk, got to be on a panel with John Crowley, got to hang with friends new and old — Paul Tremblay, Laird Barron, Michael Cisco — bought so many Weird [...]]]> http://www.demontheory.net/?feed=rss2&p=276 http://www.demontheory.net/?p=275 http://www.demontheory.net/?p=275#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:59:55 +0000 Stephen Main http://www.demontheory.net/?p=275 Which is to say, three new stories, “Piano Theif” and “Because My Therapist Asked Me to Tell a Story Using Hamsters,” each over at the July Hobart, and “Close Encounters,” up now at 365 Tomorrows. Also, “Endless Buffets” is in the current Western Humanities Review. And, hitting the shelves at Readercon in a week here, [...]]]> http://www.demontheory.net/?feed=rss2&p=275