Paul J. J. Payack

The Idea Mine: a Brief Note on Metafiction Paul J. J. Payack

What I present to you here is an Idea Mine. This Idea Mine, which consists of nearly one thousand creative works, has taken some twenty-five years to construct, create and compile. In this Idea Mine are dozens, even, scores of hidden gems that are ready for you to discoverand ready to assume their proper place in the world of ideas (today rather unceremoniously referred to as 'content'). Many of the works collected in this Idea Mine have been published in such places as The Paris Review, Creative Computing, and the Gnosis Anthology (English and Russian), while the collages have appearedin such varied outlets as New Letters, Boulevard, and Asimovs Science Fiction. (For years I belonged to the Science Fiction Writers of America, but I do not classify myself as a science fiction writer.) During my career Ive served as a senior executive for marketing and communications at several of the worldsleading high technology companies, including Legato Systems, Intelliguard Software, Intersolv, The Network Systems Corporation, Dun ve also had the dubious privilege of watching these very same enterprises shed billions in market value and employees by the tens of thousands. Timing is everything.