Still can’t bend my left hand properly. It’s getting better, but all too slowly for my tastes. Well, at least I’m not in constant pain!

I put up the next issue of Expanded Horizons, it took longer, but I managed. Read it now! I confess I haven’t read it in its entirety yet either. Work takes longer… everything takes longer except playing mouse-only games. *sweatdrop* But I don’t have more time to play computer games because everything else eats up my time! I need new joints. Futuristic technology, hurry up! Oh and I also want a Tesla Roadster, that’s  sufficiently futuristic. And a pony.

We’re back after the holiday break! There are only three new stories, but the first one is long. They’re all well worth the read, so be sure to check out the new issue.

If you feel like submitting stuff but haven’t made up your mind yet, now is the time – despite the break, we are still running low on content for the next issue. (We got a lot of submissions, but most of them are not really publishable.) Yes, we also take nonfiction and art – we could also use a few interesting reviews…

I updated my list of Hungarian popular-science articles; I hope this isn’t getting repetitive for non-Hungarian-speakers! FYI – I don’t recommend Google Translate for Hungarian in its present state: when I sent a friend of mine an anti-racist essay, said friend managed to conclude with the aid of automatic translation that it was a racist essay! Uh oh.

I need to thank Dash (of Expanded Horizons fame) for recommending “Biblical Hebrew mistranslations” as a topic, the article is already available and it’s proving to be quite popular. Thanks again!

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If you are in Hungary, I have a conference presentation at the Academy of Sciences Institute of Linguistics next Thursday morning. I’m going to talk about the necessity of applying formal linguistic methods to semiotic data in light of the recent Indus Valley controversy. It’s going to be a short presentation that’s intended to be thought-provoking, it will have amusing pictures and oddball references.

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A bit of squee about projects I’m involved in: nyest.hu just reached 1000 Facebook likes yesterday (like it and win random stuff!), and World SF News had this to say about Expanded Horizons: “Expanded Horizons has become the premier webzine publishing international writers these days, and their latest issue is a strong one, including two Apex Book of World SF II contributors! Check out stories from Hungary, Egypt, Malaysia, Mexico, Hong Kong and the Philippines at this great publication“.

Donate for Expanded Horizons, we’re all volunteers at the magazine and all donations go toward paying our contributors! Teaser: the next issue is going to feature, among other things, interviews by Muslim and Arab authors we have previously published. In the meanwhile, the Muslim/Arab special issue of Apex Magazine is also out!

I also got She Nailed a Stake to His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror (edited by Tim Lieder) in the mail and read it last weekend; I wonder if I can find a market for a review… This sort of stuff should be reviewed as often as possible – the more biblically-themed fiction, the merrier! Now I just need to find some time to finish writing that Bible space marine story…

Expanded Horizons has a new issue out and it includes my review of Nymphomation by Jeff Noon. It was a huge disappointment, I’m a fan of his, but this book was really cringeworthy. You can read the review if you’re interested in further details!

We want to launch a regular media reviews column, hopefully with other people contributing too, so if you have a review that’s reasonably relevant, send it our way! (Be sure to read the submissions guidelines first )

Dash wrote this up, I’m crossposting it so that more people see it. Reminder: Expanded Horizons is an online magazine focusing on underrepresented groups in speculative fiction. Currently the two of us produce it in our spare time, so we need all the free advertisement we can get Pass this on!

Expanded Horizons has decided to launch an interviews project. This is a work-in-progress, so feedback from our readership and our former contributors is appreciated.

All interviews will be conducted in alignment with EH’s goal of promoting the authentic expression of under-represented voices in speculative fiction.

Just a small post -

First of all, Expanded Horizons has a new issue out, I just finished uploading the content. Make sure to visit! It also has an autism-related story.

Second, I registered on Playstation Network, my username is “prezzey”, add me and I’ll probably add you back – if I don’t have the slightest idea who you are, first send me a message, leave a comment here, etc. you get the idea. (BTW I have the same username on Xbox Live.)

Third, I was very angry to see when I came online after the chag that the Pesach robots video has been removed – here is a writeup of the contents in case you were wondering. This video has been online for a year and I had no idea it would disappear over the holidays… *sigh!*