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June 28, 2025 · 89 words
Praxis For The Masses
Amazon is selling The Praxis, Impersonations, The Accidental War, Fleet Elements, and Imperium Restored at the sale price of $1.99. They’ve left The Sundering and Conventions of War out of the sale, I assume for reasons so recondite that a mere author would not understand them. I don’t know how long the sale will last&
Read entry →May 19, 2025 · 98 words
Whereat I Have Been
So for the last week I’ve been in the remote mountain hamlet of Truchas, NM, for this year’s Rio Hondo Workshop. Attending were Oz Drummond, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Walter Jon Williams, Alex Jablokow, Michaela Roessner, Tara King, David D. Levine, Susan Forest, Rosemary Claire Smith, Alan Smale, Jen Volant, and Kim Zimrin
Read entry →May 3, 2025 · 66 words
Pointed
The 9th issue of Nathan Toronto’s paperback magazine Bullet Points is now available, with a reprint story by yours truly (“Wolf Time”). Bullet Points “captures the complexity, tragedy, and hope of warfare and violence in human and nonhuman society,” and this issue has an AI theme. Bullet Points is generously sized, and
Read entry →April 22, 2025 · 152 words
Living Genteel
The process of settling into new quarters continues. The living room, pictured here, is almost ready for actual living. The Berlin Wall of cardboard boxes that once blocked access to the bookshelves is gone. In the foreground is our elliptical trainer, which has finally emerged from its container. As the container took
Read entry →April 16, 2025 · 225 words
The Citadel
It’s 2009, and I’m in Turkey to research my novel Deep State. Standing behind is Melinda Snodgrass, and Patricia Rogers is behind the camera. I’m in the smog-swathed capital of Ankara, the city known to the Hittites as Ankuwash, to the Romans as Ancyra, and to the Ottomans as Angora. Ankara is a modern, largely [&helli
Read entry →April 9, 2025 · 283 words
CoA
So we’ve made the big move, and we’ve sacrificed the joys of country living for the excitement of the big city. As you can see. Excitement everywhere you look. The move itself took 2 days, the first to pack everything, the second to transport it and unload the trucks. The movers finished at 9pm and […]
Read entry →March 11, 2025 · 426 words
New Digs
We have finally got a moving date, so by the end of the month we’ll be in our new apartment in Albuquerque! Yes, after a 30-year rural idyll, we’re leaving our blissful, well-appointed country house for a place in the big city! What motivated all this? Well— it was time. After three decades we were […]
Read entry →March 6, 2025 · 44 words
Proclaiming
For those who haven’t seen it, here’s David Tennant’s exuberant opening for this year’s BAFTA awards. For those looking for a wee bit of relief from out country’s incessant drumbeat of madness and doom. (Maybe it’s not so doomy in Britain.) WARNING: Scottish accents.
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