OUT NOW: NIGHTMARE IN SILICON

Ymo is a girl.
Ymo gets sick.
Ymo will die.
Ymo gets turned into a robot (not a girl).
Robots don't die.
Robots don't sleep.
Robots don't dream...

"A toxic-shock torrent of bad energy and beautiful language, Colette Phair's 'Nightmare in Silicon' is recklessly brave and driven writing, brimming with fluorescent style and startling ideas. Hers is a strong, new voice that demands and deserves to be listened to."
—Alan Moore, author of V For Vendetta and Watchmen

"Cyberpunk is alive and well. Nightmare in Silicon is convulsively funny, hideously diseased, erotically oozing, tightly plotted, and told with a wonderfully sharp tongue."
—Rudy Rucker, author of Software and Mathematicians in Love

Available through Amazon.com, Amazon.fr, Amazon.co.uk.

Audio Interview with Reading from Nightmare in Silicon [07.19.08]

Issue 3 of Chiasmus Press Interviews from the Edge is now up.

3AM: London, New York, Paris [02.29.08]

An excerpt from a future novel appears in the 2nd anthology from 3AM Magazine, by UK-based Social Disease. Each story takes place in one of these three cities.

NIS-related article in Bitch Magazine [09.10.07]

Zie, Hirself, & Per: Who the hell uses gender-neutral pronouns? appears in the Fall "Singular/Plural" issue of Bitch Magazine: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, available at most major and minor bookstores nationwide. GNPs are used in Nightmare in Silicon to refer to Ymo after she is no longer a she.

Two New Fictions [08.15.07]

An audio version of Body for Sale and an excerpt from the screenplay of Nightmare in Silicon are up in the Library.

Nightmare in Silicon on MySpace [07.10.07]

Nightmare in Silicon will be out from Chiasmus Press early this fall (so, by Halloween). Find out its lifestyle and sexual preferences at Myspace.com/NightmareinSilicon.

The Apocalypse Reader [06.01.07]

These are the ways the world ends.

Thirty-four new and selected Doomsday scenarios: an enthralling collection of work by canonical literary figures, contemporary masters, and a few rising stars, all of whom have looked into the future and found it missing. Across boundaries of place and time, these writers celebrate the variety and vitality of the short story as a form by writing their own conclusions to the story of the world. Obliteration has never hurt so good.

Contributors include: Grace Aguilar, Steve Aylett, Robert Bradley, Dennis Cooper, Lucy Corin, Elliott David, Matthew Derby, Carol Emshwiller, Brian Evenson, Neil Gaiman, Jeff Goldberg, Theodora Goss, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jared Hohl, Shelley Jackson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stacey Levine, Tao Lin, Kelly Link, H.P. Lovecraft, Gary Lutz, Rick Moody, Michael Moorcock, Adam Nemett, Josip Novakovich, Joyce Carol Oates, Colette Phair, Edgar Allan Poe, Terese Svoboda, Justin Taylor, Lynne Tillman, Deb Olin Unferth, H.G. Wells, Allison Whittenberg, and Diane Williams.

Robot-a-Week [03.08.07]

The name says it all.

Apocolis Souvenirs [02.05.07]

SCIENCE. FUCKING. FICTION. T-shirts and stickers in the CafePress shop.

Dána in Bare Bone 9 [11.08.06]

The short story Dána appears in the latest Bare Bone anthology.

The book: Bizarre horror and dark fiction edited by Kevin L. Donihe.
The story: A Buddhist makes the ultimate sacrifice in the name of letting go.

Stories from past issues have received Honorable Mentions in several editions of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and another was reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #13.

Nightmare in Silicon: Winner of Chiasmus Press First Book Competition [09.21.06]

The novel Nightmare in Silicon has won the Chiasmus Press First Book Competition and will be out from Chiasmus in 2007.

N I S :

Ymo is a girl.
Ymo gets sick.
Ymo will die.
Ymo gets turned into a robot (not a girl).
Robots don't die.
Robots don't sleep.
Robots don't dream...

Getting medical tests performed on her to pay the rent, scraping by in the ghetto with her devoted friends, fucking her boyfriend and whoever else comes along, Ymo's is a world so infused with sex that it's become an identity. Ymo is a woman. That is, until the tests catch up with her and diagnosis with a life-threatening illness leaves her no chance of survival except in the gender-neutral body of a robot, which she gladly accepts. What follows is her struggle to stay human while existing as a sexless object, frightening to strangers and alienated from her peers. Between visits to her old self in the graveyard, she'll find out who she really is and what death is for. Ymo's final role as guinea pig will be to answer the question "What if people didn't dream?"