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Here in Lexington
August 29th 2008 at 3:57 pm
John Scalzi and I are sitting in a coffee shop with our laptops, typing away. No one’s fooled. Paul Melko just arrived.
In the meantime, here is the Russian version of Crystal Rain, due out (or maybe already coming out, I can’t read Russian) from AST:
Did John McCain really say…
August 14th 2008 at 1:42 pm
…””in the 21st century nations don’t invade other nations.”
Really? With, like, no sense of irony at all?
Science fiction and the working scientist
August 14th 2008 at 11:32 am
Neat:
This is Annelle with http://www.bigthink.com/
I thought that you might be interested in Big Think’s interview with Dr. Shelley Ann des Etages of Trinidad & Tobago, a research scientist studying organ transplant rejection, and a huge fan of Doctor Who. She credits Doctor Who and other sci fi as the inspiration for her ground-breaking research.
In […]
TV’s influence on writing
July 28th 2008 at 5:59 pm
Been doing some revisions, and saw a forum posting on a writer’s site about the effect TV has on writing and I wrote this, but thought it was bloggable:
A couple of bad habits I’ve noticed from writers in workshops/classes I’ve taught/and occasionally some books are evident:
One is the fast chapter or POV switch with no […]
Website issues
July 28th 2008 at 10:25 am
Either my WP install has been hacked, or we’re under attack, but my website has been getting suspended for making a server unstable. Just FYI. Working on it.
eta: looks like a major comment spam attack driveby on the site. Akismet handled the comments and nixed them, but the constant activity was dragging it down. I’ve […]
Pay to… um… not play
July 15th 2008 at 1:54 am
William Sanders now wants authors who ask for their stories to be deleted to *pay* Helix for the privilege.
Why should you have to do all this extra work for nothing, just so some silly people can make a big grandstand play to impress their bloggy pals with the Correctness of their convictions?
I am hereby making […]
St. Thomas bound (vacation)
June 17th 2008 at 6:00 pm
I’m packing up the last bag, tossing out the garbage, and out the door for 8 days in St. Thomas, USVI. There are a few posts scheduled to pop up over the rest of the week, but I’ll be scarce around these parts.
Don’t party too hard.
Chilo!
May 22nd 2008 at 1:49 pm
Speaking of Sly Mongoose, the German edition will come out roughly the same time as the US edition (synchronicity!) in October, and is called “Chilo” after the name of the planet the action is set on.
Leubbe already has a page set up for it here.
SF signal likes Implied Spaces
May 16th 2008 at 2:13 pm
Glad to see I’m not the only one digging on Walter Jon William’s latest novel. SF Signal has a nice review.
New Space Opera authors
May 12th 2008 at 10:38 am
Jason Mayo asked:
Focusing on the genre of “new” space opera that guys like you and John Scalzi (hmmm, must be an Ohio thing. I’m tempted to call it a conspiracy even, but conspiracies usually involve cover ups and “Ohio is coming to kick your ass with scifi day” is pretty much the anti of covering […]
