Walter Jon WilliamsNovelist

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  1. November 7, 2007 · 157 words

    All We Need Are a Couple Wee Little Speakers. . .

    “Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have builtthe world’s smallest radio out of single carbon nanotube one ten-thousandth the width of a human hair. “Researchers say the tiny radio needs only a battery and a pair ofearphones to hook listeners up with their favorite radio stations. But that’s not all

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  2. November 7, 2007 · 159 words

    Back from WFC

    So in New York and in Saratoga I saw and talked to Constance Ash, Tim Holman, Alex Lencicki, Alice Emigh, Saladin Ahmed, Cat Rambo, Oz, Christopher Cevasco, Tim & Serena Powers, Nancy Kress, Geoffrey Jacoby, Joe and Gay Haldeman, Ian Tregillis, Melinda Snodgrass, Kelly Link, Jeremy Lassen, Moebius, Elizabeth Bear, L.E.

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  3. October 29, 2007 · 21 words

    Road Trip

    I’m gone to World Fantasy Convention. If I don’t see you there, I’ll check in here when I get back.

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  4. October 29, 2007 · 169 words

    Avast, Ye Mummy!

    So here I am at Pat and Scott’s Halloween party. The party had an Egyptian theme: the conceit is that I am there for the Battle of the Nile. Sage Walker took the picture. I used to throw Halloween parties myself— I was born around the holiday, after all. But then once I got invited […]

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  5. October 28, 2007 · 198 words

    Geezer Test

    Me-Day has dawned. Since it’s now my birthday, and the whole day is entirely about me— making it not unlike other days, actually— it’s only appropriate that I devise a test to discover if you guys are as wise as I am. The following questions are devised in order to discover if your brain is […]

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  6. October 27, 2007 · 18 words

    Me-Day

    Hey, Sunday is my birthday!I feel precisely one year older than I did this time last year.

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  7. October 26, 2007 · 17 words

    WFT???

    Okay, so here we are on a death metal Japanese cooking show. Aliens are among us.

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  8. October 25, 2007 · 66 words

    Running, Jumping, Smashing the Mall

    Not much time for posting today, so I thought I might link to another cool parkour video. And then I thought, hey, why not link to the the guy who really invented this stuff? Doing not only le parkour, but kung fu.Co-starring Brigitte Lin as the Woman Treated Like a Sack of Potatoes, and Maggie […]

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  9. October 23, 2007 · 48 words

    Rewired

    Just got my copy of Rewired: the Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, edited by Jim Kelly and John Kessel. My own story “Daddy’s World” is featured, along with stories by Pat Cadigan, Charles Stross, Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Paul Di Filippo, and Many More. I recommend it to your attention.

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  10. October 23, 2007 · 980 words

    2.4 Meters

    This is Part II of my adventures, crashing the homecoming of a university that I never actually attended.After visiting EMRTC, we attended a backyard picnic for alumni, and I was treated to my second chuckwagon BBQ dinner in a week— naturally, with all the trimmins. I did my best to find millionaire alumni in the

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  11. October 23, 2007 · 10 words

    The Onion Nails the Election

    The Onion has nailed this election. Check it out.

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  12. October 22, 2007 · 738 words

    Big Bangs

    At present my life seems to be interesting, but only when it’s October. This was my fourth weekend in a row doing something different and engaging. This last weekend was the homecoming celebration for the New Mexico Instute of Mining and Technology, where Kathy works. This celebration is known as “Forty-Niners,” a name

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