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Excerpt
“You’re wondering about the cats,” she says.
I wave my tail a bit. Not a wag, but it says I’m paying attention. Her hair has copper highlights. Or maybe she put drugs in my water dish.
“Project Felix,” she says, “is an undocumented feature of the new Man release.”
“Undocumented is right,” I say. “You’re doing some kind of super-tweaking with the human–cat chimeras, and I don’t think it’s for Man 2.1. Chimeric DNA ripping through the wild? Influenza vector?”
“You’re a smart pup,” she says.
My hackles raise. “Do Bill and Steve know what you’re doing?”
“Down, boy,” says Gossman. Instinctively, I sit back on my haunches.
- from "Speak, Geek," Nature, 2006.
Bio
Eileen Gunn is a writer and editor, and a recipient of the Nebula Award in the US and the Sense of Gender Award in Japan. Her collection Stable Strategies and Others (Tachyon, 2004) was nominated for the Philip K. Dick and World Fantasy awards and short-listed for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. Her work has received additional Hugo and Nebula nominations and inclusion in various best-of-the-year anthologies. She is the editor and publisher of the Infinite Matrix website and has served on the Clarion West Board of Directors since 1988.
Writing Description
Eileen Gunn defies description. She spits in its face. She tap dances across the street and sticks a flower in its rifle barrel.
The eminent critic Gary K. Wolfe, however, ranked her as a short story writer with John Crowley and Ted Chiang, which made her very happy until she realized it could have been some kind of typographic error. She's not sure what kind.
Her output has increased in recent years due to the psychic influence of Michael Swanwick, who not only issues cryptic commands and ultimatums ("Quick, without thinking, write a story about a golem!") but gives her the impression that there is least one person in the universe who, if she finished the story, would read it.
Goals
She is trying something different this year, and in an effort to have a life, or to halve a half a life, will be taking weekends off, while producing even more words: 400 words a day, Monday through Friday, for a total of 2000 words a week. Can she do it?
Website
Gunn's personal website is http://www.eileengunn.com. The Infinite Matrix is at http://www.infinitematrix.net.
She doesn't blog (yet), and she hasn't given up on the Infinite Matrix.
