Archive for April, 2011
Lauren Beukes on writing the other
April 28th 2011 at 2:45 pm
Lauren Beukes, who just won the Arthur C. Clarke award, talks about writing the other: I don’t have a lot of patience for authors who say they’d be too scared to write a character outside their cultural experience. Because we do that all the time. It’s called using your imagination. The other people I don’t [...]
China’s space station plans
April 27th 2011 at 3:25 pm
According to Xinhau: China is now in the second phase of its manned space program. According to the schedule, a space module Tiangong-1 and the Shenzhou VIII spacecraft will be launched in the latter half of this year in the first unmanned rendezvous and docking mission. Shenzhou IX and Shenzhou X will be launched next [...]
Medellin’s miracle
April 27th 2011 at 11:48 am
A fascinating look at the turn around in Medellin. The most striking feature of Fajardo’s approach was his plan to erect high-quality public architecture in Medellín’s poorest neighborhoods. “Architecture sends an important political message,” he says. “When you go to the poorest neighborhood and build the city’s most beautiful building, that gives a sense of [...]
See you at Animekon Expo in Barbados this July!
April 26th 2011 at 2:08 pm
I’ve been sitting on this news for quite a long while, but the website is now live and I can reveal the information. I will be the Featured Guest at Animekon Expo 2011 in Barbados this July 2 and 3rd and I couldn’t be more honored or excited. I was lucky enough to visit Barbados [...]
The conservative argument against free-parking
April 25th 2011 at 11:26 am
Conservative thought examines car-oriented sprawl and realizes its not market-based thinking in ‘The High Cost of ‘Free’ Parking‘: Much of America is chained to the steering wheel because postwar sprawl — created by government mandated parking lots and interstate highways — made the car the only pleasant way to get around this country. We have [...]
Solar Power has a Moore’s Law?
April 22nd 2011 at 4:18 pm
According to this O’Reilly article, solar power has been on a predictable path of development, one which implies that it will be cheaper than centrally-generated power in 2020, at the current rate, and 2015 for sunny areas. If we suffer jumps in the price of fossil fuels, it could be sooner. I find this incredibly [...]
Adventures in SF Publishing
April 18th 2011 at 2:00 pm
A new episode of Adventures in SF Publishing is up here, featuring me answering questions in Ask A Writer.
Independent tracking of eBook sales
April 15th 2011 at 11:19 am
Allegations are flying that print book publishers are stealing eBook royalties and under reporting them. It could be true, one of my great worries, enunciated a while back, was that with eBooks that you distribute (to Amazon/B&N or via regular publisher agreements) are hard to cross check (so are regular sales, but with bookscan, you [...]
Hot and Steamy: Tales of Steampunk Romance
April 15th 2011 at 10:23 am
I totally have a story in this, and it’ll launch in June from Penguin:
Individually wrapped bananas?
April 13th 2011 at 9:02 pm
What. The. Fuck. My faith in humanity just took one below the belt.
