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Excerpt
Fluffy was crying.
Like a baby.
My new cat’s name is FluffIII, the third in the Fluffy line, but I call him Fluffy. I’m not sure what I’ll call FluffIV, if there is one.
The new cat is supposed to be a normal ordinary catprint, a match to Fluffy, the best cat ever, who I raised from a kitten. With a catprint, you get a grown cat. That skips the kitten part, which is too bad, but you also skip housetraining. And neutering.
A couple of selection boxes: Neural path: Use the litterbox. A deletion: Testicles.
Correct?
Print.
From "Misprint," Nature "Futures," 9 July 2008
Bio
I write science fiction.
I attended Clarion in Pennsylvania in 1970. Robin Scott Wilson gave me his blessing to hold Clarion West in Seattle in 1971, 1972, and 1973, after which I burned out and spent the next several years living four miles down a logging road. I taught at Clarion West's second incarnation in 1984 and 1990.
I'm a founding member of Book View Cafe.
Publications
Much of my short fiction and several of my novels are available on line at Book View Cafe. My short fiction includes "Misprint" and "A Modest Proposal for the Perfection of Nature," first published in Nature; "Little Faces" (Nebula nominee), first published in SciFiction; "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" (Nebula winner), first published in Analog Science Fact/Science Fiction.
My novels include Dreamsnake (Nebula and Hugo winner), the Starfarers quartet (Starfarers, Transition, Metaphase, Nautilus), and The Moon and the Sun (Nebula winner).
Writing Description
I write science fiction, usually with a genetic engineering slant.
Goals
I will write one page of new work or edit five pages of the work in progress each day of the Write-a-thon.
