Reading By Numbers, my first SFWA-level published story has garnered some nice feedback.

Fantasy Magazine interviewed me about the story.  After reading the interview, quite a few people (including computer programmer friends) realised they’d missed the hidden codes in the story.

Sean Wallace, Fantasy Magazine’s publisher wrote: “Here at FM we like to occasionally run something really strange and wonderful,
and you don’t get stranger than with Aidan Doyle’s “Reading By Numbers”:
http://oldcharliebrown.livejournal.com/287013.html

Molly Tanzer, the magazine’s assistant editor describes it as “weird, creepy and beautiful.”
http://paperfruit.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/newsfeed/#more-557

Readers left some very nice remarks in the story’s comments section.  The most common reaction seemed to be that the story was “creepy.” One reader even went as far as saying “This is the most enjoyable story I’ve read all year.”
http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/2009/11/reading-by-numbers/#comments

Language Computeer writes: “any number of you mathematico-linguistic slipstream fiction fans might enjoy this story: Reading by Numbers, by Aidan Doyle.  If you like math or horrorish SF — and especially if you like both — you’ll probably enjoy it.”
http://trochee.livejournal.com/2009/11/24/

My fellow Clarionite and Queen of Wrongtown, Angela Slatter graciously plugged the story, writing: “This story has a higher IQ than I do.”
http://angelaslatter.com/2009/11/23/reading-by-numbers/

The most awesome Tessa Kum, a Clarion Souther from 2005 describes the story as “naaaaasty”
http://silence-without.blogspot.com/2009/12/see-these-other-horns-lo-i-blow-them.html

Lois Tilton at The Internet Review of Science Fiction gave it a recommendation, saying: “the narrative is original, fresh and engaging.”
http://www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10609

Rich Horton describing Fantasy Magazine’s fiction for 2009 says: “Other good work came from Catherine J. Gardner, Ari Goelman, Paul Jessup, Megan Arkenberg, and Aidan Doyle.”
http://ecbatan.livejournal.com/87459.html

The Confessions of a Semi-successful Author
http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/2004/03/22/midlist/print.html#

George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

A Good Author is Hard to Find
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/a-good-author-is-hard-to-find/Content?oid=2820559

Why Science Fiction Is Dying & Fantasy Fiction Is The Future.
http://blog.markcnewton.com/2009/12/03/why-sf-is-dying-fantasy-fiction-is-the-future/

2009 Aurealis Award Shortlist
http://www.aurealisawards.com/finalists_winners.htm

Jumping Salarymen
http://www.japanprobe.com/2009/12/04/the-solaryman-project-jumping-salarymen

Japanese Flourescent Lamp Fighting (Warning: Bloody photos)
http://gizmodo.com/5416118/japanese-lamp-fighting/gallery/6

Strange Ways of Telling Your Fortune in Japan

A cat’s mental condition, its character, tendencies, and even its fate are written on the pads of its paws…
Hello Kitty Tarot Fortune Telling…
The first step is to find your protector cat (spirit guide). The cat will then teach you about how to meet your soulmate, find the hidden you, change jobs, and learn the best day for doing things…
Learn the ten types of penguin personalities based on fortune telling based on the pronunciation of people’s names and you’ll learn how you tend to act with people and tricks for getting along with them better…
Are you a person who could conquer a nation? Warring-States-Period-General Fortune Telling is a system based on analyzing your character and tendencies, created using statistical factors. Since the Earth orbits the sun in a 360-degree orbit, depending on the time period, various heavenly bodies will be visible…

Any my personal favorite:
Categorizes all personality types according to the 48 types of gundam suits. Also includes love-compatibility analysis.

http://qjphotos.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/japanese-fortune-telling-of-cats-paw-pads-penguins-monsters-and-gundams/

Origami Sumo Battle

My week 3 Clarion story has just been published at Fantasy Magazine.

http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/2009/11/reading-by-numbers/

My first SFWA-level fiction sale. Very happy.

A story I co-wrote many years ago with Colin Jacobs has now been turned into an audio version.

You can listen at
http://dunesteef.com/2009/11/08/page-40-working-holiday-by-aidan-doyle-and-colin-jacobs/

A writer that got themselves banned by Fantasy Magazine.

http://oldcharliebrown.livejournal.com/281662.html