Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology, (Signed First Edition)

The Sycamore Hill Writers' Conference is a prestigious annual event; attendance is by invitation only. This outstanding anthology offers original stories by the members of the 1994 Sycamore Hill - some of the most successful and influential SF writers in the world.
In addition to the final form of the workshopped stories, each writer has created a commentary about the experience of the workshop itself - what the group and its comments meant to him or her.
As a bonus for readers interested in the writers' workshop experience, or in forming their own critique group, Intersections contains the "Turkey City Lexicon," a glossary of useful terms for critiquing science fiction stories, codified by the Turkey City workshop in Austin, Texas, and adopted by many writers' workshops around the world.

Emulating the Milford groups established by Damon Knight in the 1950s, the Sycamore Hill writers conferences provide an invaluable platform for mutual criticism among established sf writers. This extraordinary collection presents the stories that came out of the 1994 conference, whose participants represent sf's cutting edge, from cyberpunk specialists Bruce Sterling and James Patrick Kelly to the leading ladies of literary sf, Nancy Kress and Karen Joy Fowler. Each story is followed by criticisms from other conference participants and creative insights from the author. The collection opener, Sterling's "Bicycle Repairman," recounts the fate of a twenty-first-century bike jock when he dabbles with spy-grade technology. Robert Frazier contributes a meditation on the dangers of nanotechnology that features a serial killer who uses tailored nanobugs to "cure" unwary victims. The stories range widely in theme and in manner, from detective fiction to allegory, yet all the authors show a common dedication to honing their craft. Carl Hays