rhysiana

I was just talking on Twitter about how copy editing for Lightspeed means I've now read so many sci-fi* stories about AIs gone wrong that I have absolutely no desire to let my phone or any kind of smart appliance run any part of my life, and I listed Ken Liu's "A Perfect Match" and next month's reprint of Elizabeth Bear's "Okay Glory" as relevant examples. Bear retweeted and said "I guess this is where I get to announce that my novelette "Okay, Glory" about a hijacked smart house and a man who would like to go outside will be reprinted in @LightspeedMag in February!" and now I'm paranoid that I wasn't supposed to say anything. I mean, logically, I can't see how it would be embargoed, because I do work two months ahead on stuff, but I proofed that at the end of December, which means the announcement of it would have been in January's "Coming Attractions" feature, which is out now, (though possibly only in the ebook format and not on the website?) so...

*I am now hyperaware of using this phrase, because it's also a quirk of the magazine that our style guide mandates replacing all occurrences of "sci-fi" with "SF" or "science fiction," because at some point JJA was treated to a rant by some crotchety grand master about how it was a derogatory term. Given that none of our book/media reviewers are much over the age of 40, I'm removing the offending term more and more lately. Harlan Ellison is dead; I think it's time to admit we've reclaimed this term. If we can run a special issue called Queers Destroy Science Fiction!, I think we can accept "sci-fi" as valid.