I found the following comments in a year in review article over at Emerald City, and thought I'd share:

Asimov's was a double issue for April/May. For all that, the only story that caught my attention and rewarded it was "California King", by Michael Jasper and Greg van Eekhout. That was an accomplishment because it is an example of what some call the New Weird — a Tim Powers-style hallucinatory fantasy of geographically resident magic and a power struggle between generations in a bleak, possibly future landscape — which isn't one of my favorite sub-genres. For what it is, it's done well. Since I didn't expect it to be Deeply Meaningful, my only issue with it is the ending, where it shifts narrators without a noticeably good reason; clearly the authors were playing with the structure of what roles the narrators have in the story, but I found it a bit jarring. Still, if you like the New Weird, you may enjoy this for its imagery and characters. The cast members are few, but colorful.

Hey, Greg! We're part of the New weird! Whaddayasay??? Weird, eh? I just love being compared to Tim Powers, who's just an awesome writer (and a cool guy).

And so much for trying to be Deeply Meaningful. Sigh...

I also stumbled across two interesting, and LONG, articles about writing that I'm in the middle of reading, one by John Scalzi and one an interview with Neil Stephenson. Great stuff so far. I needed those repeated jolts of insight today. Better than caffeine. Later!