Archive for January, 2011
Borders’ struggles
January 31st 2011 at 3:00 pm
It looks like Borders is limping along on its last gasps. This will suck for many, due to the way bookstore ordering goes, some authors will see a chunk of their sales go away if Borders closes, readers will lose an avenue, and some authors will not be able to build on success (Jim Hines [...]
Snowy farmlands
January 31st 2011 at 2:11 pm
This is a shot taken just outside Ada, Ohio, while I was on my way in with my mother. There was fog settling in over the area, and all the trees were encased in ice from a light freezing rain the night before. It was quite striking. I gather from everyone’s consternation that there will [...]
Anti-rail attitudes stem from lack of information
January 31st 2011 at 12:13 pm
Transportation experts take a look at rail. I particularly like the conservative case for rail from Bill Lind: As a conservative with strong Tea Party sympathies, I think the main reason for many Tea Party folks’ anti-rail attitudes is a lack of information. For example: o Many of them think the current highway dominance is [...]
After today The Executioness is out of print
January 28th 2011 at 12:15 pm
I try not to barrage you all with ‘buy, buy, buy’ posts, but this a reminder, today is your last chance to snag a copy of The Executioness from Subterranean Press because: We have enough orders that the trade hardcover of Tobias S. Buckell’s new novella, The Executioness, will be out of print on publication. [...]
Take us to your leader
January 27th 2011 at 2:41 pm
Take us to your leader… …we demand you give us finger foods. Like cheerios. We like cheerios.
Writing on the high seas
January 27th 2011 at 9:30 am
Ahhh, piracy. Jim Hines emailed recently asking if he could quote me in regards to some words I’d written about piracy recently in regards to an article he wrote. “Even better,” said I, “I’ve been slowly working away at an article.” Not too long ago Sarah Prineas had asked me what I thought about piracy [...]
Close the bodpod bay doors please…
January 26th 2011 at 11:27 pm
Today, as part of my continuing adventure in slow weight loss and continual stats tracking, I climbed into this thing: I don’t think Dr. Swanson, the Physiology Coordinator for ONU heard me say ‘close the pod bay door’ when he shut me in, but I thought it was pretty damn funny. In order to get [...]
Dubai’s world islands sinking
January 26th 2011 at 2:23 pm
It was a weird, sf-nal project, fueled by petro dollars and extravagance. Now it’s sinking.
China to create super-mega-ultra city of 42 million
January 25th 2011 at 8:14 pm
China is planning to merge seven cities (including Guangzhou and Shenzhen) into a mega city: The new mega-city will cover a large part of China’s manufacturing heartland, stretching from Guangzhou to Shenzhen and including Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Jiangmen, Huizhou and Zhaoqing. Together, they account for nearly a tenth of the Chinese economy. and Twenty-nine [...]
The Executioness out of print by end of this week
January 24th 2011 at 11:23 am
Over at Subterranean Press’s blog, it’s official: We have enough orders that the trade hardcover of Tobias S. Buckell’s new novella, The Executioness, will be out of print on publication. (We still have a reasonable, but not large, quantity of the limited edition still available.) This is one proud author. I’ve always wanted to sell [...]
