Yog's Notebook, blog edition

Stephen wrote "Foo Boxen", a story about putting Schroedinger's Cat to the test, which appears in our summer issue.

Q: What's the best thing you've read recently?

A: Graveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories
Vol. 1, by Gary A. Braunbeck: A crust of speculative fiction wrapped around a mantle of bleak, lightless despair, wrapped around a near-Pyrrhic core of hope and redemption, from one of the modern masters of the short form.

Q: What motivates you to write science fiction or horror?

A: I can't switch off the part of my brain that constantly asks, "What if...?" I think it's inextricably linked to the part of my brain that craves the Macaroni & Cheese Pizza at Cici's, because I can't seem to turn that off, either...

Q: What do you hope the future will be like?

A: I genuinely hope we can evolve out of our current cultural tendency to encourage and reward sociopathic behavior. We can be, both as a species and as individuals, so much more than just apologists and enablers for the sociologically toxic among us.

Q: What's lurking under your bed?

A: Almost always an ankle-clawing cat.

Q: Do you have any hobbies or interests outside of writing and sf/horror?

A: I run an award-winning audio drama production company, Strange Interludes; I also sing in a cover band from time to time.

Q: Do you have a website you'd like our readers to see?

A: www.stephencouch.com

Labels: interview, science fiction, sf