This post contains spoilers for “The Gold Silkworm” at Fantasy Magazine. Please read the story first. Thanks!
Tattoos of Chinese phrases play an important role in “The Gold Silkworm”. I had originally intended to include them as visual aids, but the story worked without them. Also, it was difficult to embed Chinese fonts for electronic submissions to magazines. So, here they are instead as story extras.
Filed under Linguistics, Writing
“The Gold Silkworm” is live at Fantasy Magazine (December 13, 2010 issue). It’s another Strange Event of the Song Dynasty.
This might be a good time to announce that my new blog/website is also live, as is my Twitter account @wistling. I’ll be keeping my LiveJournal too.
My cousin I-Wei Huang is an artist and steampunk genius–he designs steam-powered robots that actually work! Check these out:
The Steam Powered Centipede
The Steam Beetle
We’ve teamed up once: he did the artwork for “Tekkai Exhales His Avatar” (which appeared in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show #11):
Check out his work at Crabfu.
“A Sweet Calling” in Clarkesworld #44 is my tribute to the vanishing art of candy blowing, which has been seen in the streets of China since the Tang Dynasty.
Watch a modern Tangren at work:
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F&SF writer and linguist. Winner, 2015 Aurora Award for Best English Poem/Song.
Also 2015 Aurora Awards finalist, Best English Short Fiction; former finalist, 2009 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer; finalist, 2008 Aurora Award, "Best Short-Form Work in English"; Second Place winner of the Writers of the Future Contest (volume XXIII).
Tony Pi, F&SF Writer 