One More Detour on the Writing Road

If I ever need a boost, I'll go back and read the SFBC reader reviews for the Code/Rules/Law omnibus. One states that "Kristine Smith is like unto a god...or a goddess to be more accurate." The other said that the story began slowly, but then "the genius of Kristine Smith's writing took hold."

I'm going to need that over the next few months.

I was doing an ego-search on Google, and found that Incident on a Small Colony made the storySouth list of Best Online Stories of 2006!

I'm thrilled that the story is receiving notice, especially since it's up against stories in other genres. Given that it's behind a subscription wall, I doubt it will get enough votes to make the Top 10 list, but I'm still happy.

UPDATE: Didn't make the Top Ten. Only about a week behind in digging this out.

Congrats to all who did!

sartorias reviews "Incident on a Small Colony" for Tangent Online's current issue, and liked it:

The tech stuff is neat, the atmosphere tense, with vivid description and convincing detail, the action pretty much non-stop, and the emotional tension builds inexorably. Three whammies before the end, all different: the thing that makes memorable stories is not just nifty skiffy, great pacing, but the electricity between human beings. One of my favorites.

Incident was my first short work to see print, virtual or otherwise. I'm very pleased with how it's been received so far.

::happy::

A very nice review of CODE OF CONDUCT on SF Reviews.

However, I am most certainly not the Kristine Smith who served as Deforest Kelley's caregiver in his last months.

When I first signed the CODE contract back in '98, word went around that I was a Kris Rusch pseudonym.

That's not true, either.

Rich Horton liked "Incident on a Small Colony" enough to put it on his list of favorite novellas for 2006!