Toasted Cake 49! In which we play with our cars.
It was summer, a hot humid North Carolina summer, and there was nothing else to do.
(First appeared in Marti and Bridget McKenna's magazine "Aeon Speculative Fiction.")
David D. Levine is a lifelong SF reader whose midlife
crisis was to take a sabbatical from his high-tech job to attend
Clarion West in 2000. It seems to have worked. He made his first
professional sale in 2001, won the Writers of the Future Contest in
2002, was nominated for the John W. Campbell award in 2003, was
nominated for the Hugo Award and the Campbell again in 2004, and won a
Hugo in 2006 (Best Short Story, for "Tk'Tk'Tk"). A collection of his
short stories,
Space Magic, from
Wheatland Press, won the Endeavour Award in 2009. In January of 2010 he spent two weeks at a simulated Mars base in the
Utah desert, and you can read about that at
bentopress.com/mars. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his
wife, Kate Yule, with whom he edits the fanzine
Bento, and their
website is at
BentoPress.com.
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