Author:Edward R. Morris

NOMINATIONS, &C.

Winter 2005-2006

“Imagine” nominated for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History and the British Science Fiction Association Award, both in the category of Best Short Story. Fellow contenders for both include Poul Anderson (posthumously), Kevin J. Anderson, Paul DiFilippo, Neal Asher, Harry Turtledove and Rudy Rucker.



Feb. 2006

BEGAN COLLABORATION WITH LOU ANTONELLI ON “EVA” AND “THE DEVIL WE KNOW”

EASTERCON 2006 Glasgow, Scotland Introduced to the members of the World Science Fiction Association as a “red-hot new writer” through Interzone magazine

PUBLICATIONS

Spring 1995 The Enormous Sky (Temple University Literary Press) poem:”Happy Wednesday”

Spring 1998 Mirage #4 period (ical) Kevin Killian, ed. Eulogy: “Scarecrow”; rant “Cause and Consequence”

The Northwest Drizzle Mark Anderson, ---ed.

http://www.nwdrizzle.com

Summer 2002- Sept. 2005+ (tent.) “Herakles” (short, Modernist) “Walk Away”(short sf, part of series Don’t Fear the Reaper) “Science Fiction” (short, Modernist) “Making Plans For Nigel”( Reaper installment) “Girl Afraid” (Dennis Johnson pastiche) “Gimme Shelter” (‘’) “Stage Fright” (‘’) “Tar Pit” (short story, sf) “The Magician” (juvenilia) “The Package” (poem) “St. Francis Hotel” (rant) “Don’t Fear the Reaper” (short, sf)

Summer 2003: “Great Expectations” and “Querencia” This Way Up, issues #2 & #3 Paul Jenkins, ed. (shorts: horror)

October 2003 Horrorfind (www.horrorfind.com) “First Aid” (short, vampire)

Summer 2005 Burnside Represent #27 “The Process Server” (short, Kafka) “Hold My Beer, the Psychologist Said…”

August 2005 Interzone, issue #200 “Imagine” (short story: alt-hist sf)

September 2005 Southern Gothic Jeff Crook, ed. “Tobacco Railroad” (short, sf) Simulacrum  Lynne Jamneck, ed. “Bad Blood” (short, vampire)

October 2005 Scifantastic (www.scifantasticmag.co.uk) “True Believer” (short, sf)

January 2006 The Harrow Michael Colangelo, ed. “Mysterious Ways” (short, sf)

The Book of Dark Wisdom (review of Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys)

February 2006 Nowa Fantastyka, Poland (short, horror, “Hair of the Dog”; upcoming issue TBA)

April, 2006

3-Lobed Burning Eye (short, Cthulhu Mythos, “Jihad Over Innsmouth”) Oceans of the Mind, Summer ’06 (short, ‘Infamy’ with the help of Philip José Farmer and Paul DiFilippo)

JUNE 2006

“Hair of the Dog” in Nowa Fantastyka; Warsaw, Poland Translated by Rafat Maczynski

JULY 2006

“Journey to the Center of the Earth” (novella) in Interzone #209, 25th Anniversary issue as pop-out novella booklet; possibly appearing in 25th Anniv. print anthology August 2006

“Blue Monday” in Bewildering Stories, Don Webb, ed.

“If I Went Crazy Now, Would You Still Call Me Superman?” slated for : Bewildering Stories, Oct. 2006

August 2006 “Sound & Furie” in Trabuco Road #1 BK Dunn, ed. trabucoroad.com [THE REST]

BAD BLOOD IN ROSE AND THORN FALL 07 HAIR OF THE DOG IN MURKY DEPTHS ISSUE #1

“The Sick Breath At My Hind” originally appeared in The Opinion Guy http://www.ogsf.com ‘Don’t Fear The Reaper’ originally appeared in Ballista #2 www.ballistamag.com

“Game Over” originally appeared in All Possible Worlds, Jan. 2007 www.allpossibleworlds.net

“The Cat Inside” originally appeared in Coyote Wild, Dec. 2006 www.coyotewildmag.com

“Eva” originally appeared in Neometropolis, December 2006 www.neometropolis.com

“Courtesy Call” originally appeared in Tiny Terrors #2 (UK) Paula Wilson-Buckle, ed. www.hadesgate.com

“Hair of the Dog” originally appeared in Murky Depths#2[editor[ www.murkydepths.com[]

Nine-tenths of the law md#3 [same

bad blood rose & thorn fall 2007 [ed]

‘cause and consequence’ originally appeared in ‘mirage period (ical) #3.’ ’where lost things dwell’ originally appeared in The Writer’s Hood, winter 2000-2001 issue 'Great Expectations’ originally appeared in This Way Up #2, Paul Jenkins, ed. 'Theseus’ originally appeared in This Way Up #3;original title: ‘Querencia’ ‘Don’t Fear the Reaper’,’Stage Fright’. ‘Immaculate Conception, ‘The Sick Breath At My Hind’ and ‘Listen Mr. DJ’ originally appeared in The Northwest Drizzle magazine, Mark Anderson, ed.

'First Aid’ originally appeared at www.horrorfind.com, March 2002

‘imagine’ originally appeared in Interzone#200

‘true believer’ Scifantastic sept 05 ‘tobacco railroad’ originally appeared in Southern Gothicsept 05 ‘bad blood’ simulacrum 9/05 ‘the process server’ burnside represent #27

BOOK PUBLICATIONS

Dec. 2006 Samhain Books (Linda Ingmanson, ed.) accept Blood of Eden and The Frank Principle for summer 2007 release, O Fortuna for Fall. Mommy’s Little Monster goes into pre-production

January 2007

The first SF story Morris ever wrote was called ‘Mad Skills’ and had to do with a nuclear strike in Philadelphia using dirty bombs on the railroad. That storywalked off with a former friend in a famous blue raincoat.

The first SF story Morris kept, however (apart from the problematic Crooked Man series, which he began at age 11) was called ‘Courtesy Call.’ Written in 1998 during a terminal relationship with a child at issue, this odd piece was written in secret in the dead of night, usually under the influence of many bong hits and cheap 40’s. It is strikingly similar in theme and tone to Douglas Lain’s ‘Instant Labor’, yet the stories were written miles apart in space and time.

FIRST EDWARD MORRIS SHORT STORY IN A PRINT ANTHOLOGY: ‘Courtesy Call’ in Tiny Terrors; UK, Hadesgate Publications, Summer 2007. www.hadesgate.co.uk

REVIEWS

1.) For “Imagine”, alternate-history short story, in Interzone #200, Jetse deVries, Andrew Cox, et.al, eds.

EARLY JANUARY 2006: “Imagine” nominated for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, Short Fiction 1/23/06 “Imagine” placed 19th out of 37 contestants in Interzone #202 Readers’ Poll. “Imagine” nominated for British Science Fiction Association Award *note: highest award for sf in the UK, period. Ceremony 4/15/06

Week of 10/07/05 Personal blog of: Jed Hartman, Fiction Editor, Strange Horizons

“…Excellently well done, both well-written by Morris and well-presented by the magazine… It gave me a nice little moment of disorientation/inversion…”

Tangent Sept.-Oct 2005 10/14/05 Bailey, Michael Gabriel, in review of Interzone #200:

“Morris does such a good job… that I, the unwary reader, thought I had stumbled out of the fiction and into an interesting article… Innovative presentation…”

Manchester Guardian 10/22/05 Elborough, Travis:

“And perhaps the most interesting offering in [Interzone #200 ]’s batch is a tale from Edward Morris that raises Lester Bangs from the dead to narrate a counterfactual history of the past two decades.”

SFsite.com 11/01/05 Soyka, David:

“Another Dickian tale, perhaps more in keeping with Phil’s weird world view…is “Thinking the Unthinkable About Ronald Reagan by Lester Bangs” which isn’t the title but the opening line of a story called “Imagine” by Edward Morris. Building irony upon irony, Morris envisions an alternative reality in which the legendary rock critic hasn’t burned out, and is writing about the fortunate circumstances that resulted in the successful assassination of Ronald Reagan by has-been and delusional rock musician John Lennon. Somewhere in whatever reality he ended up in, [Philip K. Dick] must be smiling in approval.”

Rudy Rucker:

“I read your story [“Imagine”] just now. It was fun. I’d like to see George W. Bush in place of Reagan, though…. Feel free to harsh on Joe Doakes in one of your stories as well.”

RevUpReview #15, Paul S. Jenkins, ed.

“Brilliant alternate history…highly ingenious… Very clever…”

2.) For Spiderman story “True Believer” in Scifantastic #2, Sarah Dobbs, ed.

Redwood, Steve in Whispers of Wickedness, Nov. 2005

“Convincing… A great and daring climactic resolution.”

Hi Ed, I just read "Journey to the Center of the Earth", and I loved it. Superbly inventive, and I think it's the best I've read from you so far. So at the end of the May reading period I'll be forwarding it, with my blessing, to Andy and Dave. It was both a journey into the unknown and a feast of recognition. I especially liked Ursula LeGuin as a political/ecological behind-the-scenes activist (and love interest for Walter Munk. They're both still alive, right...;-), and making Isaac Asimov special agent 008 was an inspired move. Brilliant: I laughed my arse off. Even Sylvestre Matuschka (and I know that character only through Lard's "The Last Temptation of Reid" album, with Jello Biafra's superb lyrics) rang a bell with me (and the scene of his masturbating after a violent explosion was true to life, as well). A superb piece of alternate history, where the sixties are *really* played out to their full potential. Actually -- and do keep this to yourself until we confirm this, and make an official announcement: I hate announce something in public and then withdraw it, it makes me look like a fool -- we have Interzone's 25th Anniversary coming up in Spring 2006. The plan -- which is already in an advanced stadium, as I'm talking with the EasterCon 2006 organisers -- is to throw a special Interzone party at the British EasterCon of 2006 (April 6 through April 9), on the Easter Friday night. We've more or less been given the largest room -- with a stage -- for this, and apart from other things I intend to have a live band (good friends of mine) perform there as well. We're discussing several things: maybe a special edition of Interzone (possibly a 'normal' special edition -- and with Andy's design skills this is already special -- and a limited edition with extra stories, or maybe a special IZ 25 year antho, with a few stories special to that antho. Now I think -- and Andy and Dave may disagree -- that "Journey to the Center of the Earth" may very well be one of the special stories to that Anniversary issue or antho. Thing is, at 23K it's too long to be out in the regular IZ, so we would need to serialise it like Calder's "After the Party". But as an extra in an IZ anniversary thing it could be published in one piece. Keep in mind that these are my thoughts, and Andy and Dave may disagree, so I can't promise anything. But personally I do think the story is very well suited for the occasion. Also, it may take a while before we get back to you on this. Because of my bicycle accident (I'm still not 100% back to normal), and other things (Andy has an operation on his left eye for a cataract next week -- don't tell him I told you! -- and Dave lost his job -- he's starting on a new one Monday, thankfully!) we are behind on the slush, and our priority was (is!) to keep IZ appearing on time. So give us some time. Also, I'll be doing a TTAPress/Interzone dealer's table at LACon IV. Also -- again, keep this to yourself until we announce it officially -- I'm trying to get a small Interzone party organised at LACon IV, together with Jason Stoddard. So, if you're going to LACon IV (it's not that far from Portland), we do need to share a barrel of beer, and I would want you to be one of the authors to do a bit of reading at the party. I've requested a suite at the Hilton for this, and I'm waiting for confirmation. My preference was for the Thursday (August 24), although that may shift either to the Wednesday or Friday. Hope you can come to WorldCon! Finally, through Jay Lake's blog (another guy who I need to have drinks with!) I found that 'the awesome Edward Morris Jr.' is organising the screening of Jeff VanderMeer's Shriek movie in Portland. I assume that's you? Just curious. Best, Jetse

>>>>Just five pages in (well, after I'd increased the size of the text about ten times, so I'm probably only on page one) and already have HIGH hopes for this. Superb writing, intriguing, very well paced, it's already oozing class. <<<< >>>>Mad! Brilliant! With moments that go even *beyond* brilliant! The passage with Howard Hughes on the Nautilus was very moving, yet even here lines like 'I think my drillship knows which way to go' make you laugh out loud, and the whole thing is studded with so many touches of insane inventiveness and cleverness you just want to clap and cheer. Does Ursula know? Does de Vries know?<<<< Those were both from Andy. >>>>Great story. Read it over my lunch hour as an excuse for not going to the gym. (A pointless exercise, by the way, my joining the prison gym. What was I thinking? I’m _never_ going to go!) I really like what Ed Morris does. And I like the idea of it being a Special Thing for EasterCon.<<<< That was Dave.

“A delight” [new reviews, add in ]

For “On the Air” (Heliotrope, August 2006)

“Alternate history on speed,”

---David Soyka, Black Gate (www.blackgate.com)

“Showing us how alternate history should not be written,”

---Lois Tilton

“I recommend[…] Journey to the Center of the Earth by Edward Morris[…] This was an utter delight and I wish it had been published in the magazine.”

---Sam Tomaino, SFRevu, Apr. 2007

“Morris has captured this… An interesting innovation…”

---Rod McDonald, SFCrowsnest Apr. 2007


 * Journey to the Center of the Earth was reviewed by Nader Elhefnawy in Tangent Online
 * Journey to the Center of the Earth by Edward Morris
 * Written by Nader Elhefnawy
 * Tuesday, 20 March 2007
 * (Accompaniment to Interzone #209, April 2007)
 * See http://www.tangentonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1009&Itemid=260 for the text of the review.