Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Notes from The Buffer Zone: The Importance of Weather
I grew up in the American Midwest. In northern Wisconsin, to be precise, where the tip of Lake Superior touches both Minnesota and Wisconsin. Most of my weather memories of those years are of severe cold and deep snow. The time our house got buried after a blizzard,...
Notes from The Buffer Zone: Old-Timers
I’ve become one of the old-timers. I had an inkling of that these past few years, after I was the guest of honor at MileHiCon and watched the younger writers mill around. I had another inkling when so many of my writer and editor friends passed away recently, and I...
Notes from The Buffer Zone: Fandom Changes
Notes from The Buffer Zone: Fandom Changes By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Because I live in downtown Las Vegas, I see the strangest things. Almost every window in my place overlooks different wedding chapels. On the afternoon of May 4, I looked out one window and...
Notes from The Buffer Zone: Conventions in the Sky
I write this a week after I discovered that Gardner Dozois passed away. For those of you who never met Gardner or even heard of him, he was the sf editor for most of his tenure at Asimov’s SF Magazine. He won the Hugo for his editing 15 times. He edited a year’s best...
Notes from The Buffer Zone: Discovering A New World
I understand science fiction better now than I ever had. Not because I've been writing it my entire life—which I have—but because I moved last month. Let me explain—and to do so, I have to get a little personal. We had planned to snowbird half-time in Las Vegas for...
Notes from The Buffer Zone: We Live in the Future Now
Since 2003, I have had a subscription to Sirius-XM satellite radio. Well, back then, it was just Sirius. The reason I subscribed was because I live on the Oregon Coast, and the radio stations we got here were either extremely amateurish with limited programming...
Notes from The Buffer Zone: Get Off My Phone!
I've been doing a lot of thinking about my phone lately. That could be because I'm going to replace the phone in the next month or so. It's getting a little temperamental and whenever my electronics get temperamental, that means the Kris Effect is about to hit (or...
Notes from The Buffer Zone: The Jetsons And The Alternate Future
In the summer of 1964, my father took a teaching job at the University of California-Santa Barbara. I was four. I have distinct memories of that trip—all age appropriate. I got angry when my mother gave my comic books to another child, I couldn’t understand why I...
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