by Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold

Continuing my series of articles I wrote with Jay Lake a couple of decades ago. This one was originally published in IROSF in November 2005.

Consider the poor editor, slaving away at her overheated desk, surrounded by piles of manuscripts.  She finds herself amid vales of verbiage, stacks of sonorous prose, wondering where and how she’ll pull together a meaningful selection of work that won’t get her drummed out of the Editor’s Club, bar privileges revoke...