Mari Ness -

I was going to attempt to write an intelligent, thoughtful entry about the latest kerflumpus flying about the internet, or at least, that small section of the internet devoted to/excited about speculative fiction editors, writing, rejections and so on. And then I found that Tobias Buckell and ktempest and many many others had beaten me to it.

On an unrelated to racism and language note, you'd think that this sort of thing, which happens all the time, would teach all of us, especially me, to be more careful about the emails we write -- and yet, the very ease of emailing and instant messaging and Facebooking and Twittering and so on just seems to make all of us, including me, continually careless - though I'm working on controlling that impulse to hit send before I think or post.

Edit: For the record, I enjoy reading HelixSF, and both editors have a good eye for fiction -- this is less a commentary on the zine, and more an observation about email.

And having written the above, I'll note that careless, hasty writing that later becomes embarassing public is hardly an internet phenomenon -- but that barrier of needing to physically carry that writing to another place for publication/reading has gotten much thinner.