Scott Edelman
@scottedelman.bsky.social
Scott Edelman is a Stoker Award-nominated writer and Hugo Award-nominated editor of SF, fantasy & horror. And host of the Eating the Fantastic podcast! (He/Him)
Coming next month on Eating the Fantastic: you'll be able to eavesdrop on my conversations with comics writer/editor Jack C. Harris, who I first met when he was cosplaying as Two-Face 52 years ago, followed by New York Times resident comics expert George Gene Gustines. Join us! pod.link/1083737796
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Coming next month on Eating the Fantastic: you'll be able to eavesdrop on my conversations with comics writer/editor Jack C. Harris, who I first met when he was cosplaying as Two-Face 52 years ago, followed by New York Times resident comics expert George Gene Gustines. Join us! pod.link/1083737796
Because I'll be heading off shortly for Baltimore and to take part in the 10th anniversary celebration of Submersive Productions, I did my due diligence and made sure I won't be Patient Zero for the event. And all seems copacetic. submersiveproductions.ticketspice.com/you-are-here...
November 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Because I'll be heading off shortly for Baltimore and to take part in the 10th anniversary celebration of Submersive Productions, I did my due diligence and made sure I won't be Patient Zero for the event. And all seems copacetic. submersiveproductions.ticketspice.com/you-are-here...
Wishing the happiest of birthdays to Chen Quifan and @alexjennings.bsky.social, two former Eating the Fantastic guests who've completed trips around the sun today! I invite you to celebrate by taking your seat at their tables as I chat and chew with them on Episodes 49 and 227. pod.link/1083737796
November 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Wishing the happiest of birthdays to Chen Quifan and @alexjennings.bsky.social, two former Eating the Fantastic guests who've completed trips around the sun today! I invite you to celebrate by taking your seat at their tables as I chat and chew with them on Episodes 49 and 227. pod.link/1083737796
Not the morning view I expected. I’m glad — because of this afternoon’s trip to Baltimore — that dusting seems as if it will be the whole of it.
November 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Not the morning view I expected. I’m glad — because of this afternoon’s trip to Baltimore — that dusting seems as if it will be the whole of it.
Another utterly ridiculous spam promotional email.
November 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Another utterly ridiculous spam promotional email.
Completed my program participant survey for August's @laworldcon.bsky.social, where I hope I'll get to hang out with some of you. And so you'll be able to recognize me when we're there, here I am at my first Worldcon, which I attended in 1974 at the tender age of 19. Haven't changed a bit!
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Completed my program participant survey for August's @laworldcon.bsky.social, where I hope I'll get to hang out with some of you. And so you'll be able to recognize me when we're there, here I am at my first Worldcon, which I attended in 1974 at the tender age of 19. Haven't changed a bit!
Episode 269 of Eating the Fantastic is now live with @naomikritzer.bsky.social! Join us at the table and learn what she was told by her mentor after confessing she wanted to be Ursula K. Le Guin, her surprise at the way “Cat Pictures Please” went viral, and more. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Episode 269 of Eating the Fantastic is now live with @naomikritzer.bsky.social! Join us at the table and learn what she was told by her mentor after confessing she wanted to be Ursula K. Le Guin, her surprise at the way “Cat Pictures Please” went viral, and more. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
I will be forever grateful Michael Whelan allowed us to repurpose that evocative image on the cover to the first issue of Science Fiction Age magazine, which I'm finding difficult to accept launched a third of a century ago. I wish I was editing it still!
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I will be forever grateful Michael Whelan allowed us to repurpose that evocative image on the cover to the first issue of Science Fiction Age magazine, which I'm finding difficult to accept launched a third of a century ago. I wish I was editing it still!
Which I recognized immediately as a detail from one of Sanjulián's famous Creepy covers!
November 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Which I recognized immediately as a detail from one of Sanjulián's famous Creepy covers!
Informed Delivery alerted me a UK package will, after many stops along the way, find its way into my hands today. I suspect these will be signature sheets for the limited hardcover edition of my collection 101 Things to Do Before You're Downloaded. Fingers crossed! pspublishing.co.uk/101-things-t...
November 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Informed Delivery alerted me a UK package will, after many stops along the way, find its way into my hands today. I suspect these will be signature sheets for the limited hardcover edition of my collection 101 Things to Do Before You're Downloaded. Fingers crossed! pspublishing.co.uk/101-things-t...
Happy Thanksgiving, all!
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, all!
Today in spam texts I shall not be answering.
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Today in spam texts I shall not be answering.
I was there! Didn't see you, though.
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I was there! Didn't see you, though.
Coming tomorrow morning — a new episode of my Eating the Fantastic podcast, during which you'll be able to take a seat at the table for my Uzbek dinner with multiple award-winning writer @naomikritzer.bsky.social. Subscribe now to be among the first to join us at the table! pod.link/1083737796
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Coming tomorrow morning — a new episode of my Eating the Fantastic podcast, during which you'll be able to take a seat at the table for my Uzbek dinner with multiple award-winning writer @naomikritzer.bsky.social. Subscribe now to be among the first to join us at the table! pod.link/1083737796
Decluttering, I came across one of my Analog contracts offered by the previous ownership — one I signed without needing to ask for a single change — and considering my recent F&SF fiasco, I thought it worth sharing what the indemnification clause looked like. Note the absence of the word "alleged."
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Decluttering, I came across one of my Analog contracts offered by the previous ownership — one I signed without needing to ask for a single change — and considering my recent F&SF fiasco, I thought it worth sharing what the indemnification clause looked like. Note the absence of the word "alleged."
A Georgia judge just dismissed the charges against Donald Trump for his outrageous attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, but as we all know — and as the commemorative coin I own minted by Valery Jung Estabrook reminds us all — the man is guilty, guilty, guilty!
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A Georgia judge just dismissed the charges against Donald Trump for his outrageous attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, but as we all know — and as the commemorative coin I own minted by Valery Jung Estabrook reminds us all — the man is guilty, guilty, guilty!
Wait, what? Noooooooo! Too soon, too soon!
November 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Wait, what? Noooooooo! Too soon, too soon!
Happy 72nd birthday to comics artist Pat Broderick, who collaborated with me to unmask Captain Marvel back in 1978 for the final issue of my run on that title. I wish we'd had more chances to work together, but alas, that was the only one. Hoping your day is fantastic!
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Happy 72nd birthday to comics artist Pat Broderick, who collaborated with me to unmask Captain Marvel back in 1978 for the final issue of my run on that title. I wish we'd had more chances to work together, but alas, that was the only one. Hoping your day is fantastic!
My wife has commanded me not to buy either those pants or that jacket, and she will be obeyed.
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
My wife has commanded me not to buy either those pants or that jacket, and she will be obeyed.
I hope I didn't give the wrong impression as to which of the Marvel conventions I wrangled, but it was 1975, not 1976, as per this advertisement rather than that one. By the time the '76 one rolled around, I was already on my way to living the freelance life, and those duties went to someone else.
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I hope I didn't give the wrong impression as to which of the Marvel conventions I wrangled, but it was 1975, not 1976, as per this advertisement rather than that one. By the time the '76 one rolled around, I was already on my way to living the freelance life, and those duties went to someone else.
Happy 75th birthday to Chris Claremont, with whom I worked 50 years ago in the Marvel Bullpen, the only proof of which is this pic taken there during the mid-'70s. That's me, bearded and wild-haired in a Mickey Mouse hat, him kneeling, with his face obscured as he takes a photo of the photographer.
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Happy 75th birthday to Chris Claremont, with whom I worked 50 years ago in the Marvel Bullpen, the only proof of which is this pic taken there during the mid-'70s. That's me, bearded and wild-haired in a Mickey Mouse hat, him kneeling, with his face obscured as he takes a photo of the photographer.
Your context-free comic book panel of the day.
![Two women, a student and a teacher, stand on either side of a doorway to a room dark save for a single spotlight illuminating a table on which is a statue of a baby in a diaper.
CAPTION: "Betty is cut short by the net display ... "
BETTY'S WORD BALLOON: "Oh! A statue of a baby! Why is it here?"
MISS WHITE'S WORD BALLOON: "To remind us, Betty, that -- "
[from the educational comic Eat Right to Win, 1952.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ac2kmpveixxnm4cp4janyafx/bafkreieh66z2od266o2xvthh4sidnxm5f7mgqsaok2vmeaalor4va22jvu@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Your context-free comic book panel of the day.
How did he not know you're only supposed to do that sort of thing on Thanksgiving?
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
How did he not know you're only supposed to do that sort of thing on Thanksgiving?
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
For those who like knowing how Eating the Fantastic's podcast sausage is made — editing the raw audio from my recent chat with @naomikritzer.bsky.social to ready it for your ears took 720 snips, removing 15 minutes and 37 seconds of distractions. Please join us Friday morning! pod.link/1083737796
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
For those who like knowing how Eating the Fantastic's podcast sausage is made — editing the raw audio from my recent chat with @naomikritzer.bsky.social to ready it for your ears took 720 snips, removing 15 minutes and 37 seconds of distractions. Please join us Friday morning! pod.link/1083737796