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Announcements, new editions, travel, diving, cooking and the working life of a novelist — 136 entries, all of them here in full.
January 12, 2018 · 59 words
I Am Me Right In Front Of You
This coming Sunday, January 14, I’ll be at the Jean Cocteau Theater in Santa Fe for a 3pm talk and signing. George RR Martin will be conducting the interview. Albuquerque Comic Con will be going on at the same time, so I expect the crowd might be a little thin. Feel free to show up […]
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Table Manners of the Stars
In my novel Implies Spaces, I referred to a particularly catastrophic cosmic event as the “big belch.” Now the Hubble and Chandra space telescopes have viewed a “double burp” from a black hole in a galaxy known by the stirring name SDSS J1354+1327. The Mighty Williams Prediction Machine rolls on! Hubble was able to sho
Read entry →January 9, 2018 · 363 words
Nazis for New Year
If you use social media, you’ve met neo-Nazis and their allies. They’re everywhere, and they’re about as charming as you’d expect. And if you haven’t met them personally, you’ve probably met one of their avatars. The con goes like this: The impersonator lifts an online photo of a Jew, Muslim, African-American or other
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