Archive for August, 2011
Arctic Rising cover mutation in the wild
August 3rd 2011 at 8:21 pm
A couple of readers with eagle eyes have spotted a list of future SF/F books that include my upcoming Feb. 2012′s Arctic Rising with a cover here at this website. Their questions being ‘hey, don’t you usually reveal that stuff at your own site ASAP?’ and ‘why aren’t you sharing with us?’ I do! I [...]
Google’s autonomous Prius does autocross
August 3rd 2011 at 8:11 pm
I’m really impressed by these videos of a Google Prius doing slalom-like moves in a parking garage. I remember reading Isaac Asimov’s collection of stories about intelligent cars that had positronic brains, and I certainly have a shiver of ‘I live in the future’ when I see videos like this.
Extreme spousal literary value judgements
August 2nd 2011 at 3:30 pm
No, not mine. But Robert Louis Stevenson’s wife burned the first draft of his short novel Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: “It’s my belief that she thought Dr Jekyll, which was partly based on a dream, was not worthy of him. She was also uneasy because he was writing it for a “shilling shocker” series [...]
Agents acting as Publishers
August 2nd 2011 at 10:53 am
Jim Hines has good thoughts and sensible ideas over at his blog about agents acting as publishers.
