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May 5, 2019 · 152 words
The Shuffle
A note for all you completists out there. The ninth Wild Cards collection, Jokertown Shuffle, has been reissued by Tor with new material, two never-before-seen stories by Carrie Vaughn and Cherie Priest. In addition to the original stories by Stephen Leigh, Lewis Shiner, John Jos. Miller, Melinda Snodgrass, Victor Mila
Read entry →May 2, 2019 · 205 words
Sport Xtreme
In my Worldcon GoH speech a couple years ago I mentioned Finland’s habit of inventing new sports, conceived I suppose in the winter when they have little else to think about while drinking. Finland is the home, for example, of swamp football, competitive sauna, and competitive hobby horse riding. Of course Finland is a
Read entry →April 24, 2019 · 55 words
10:32
Ten hours and thirty-two minutes of auditory pleasure await you! The Implied Spaces audio book has been released, and is available at your local store or online in the usual places. Apparently the book has been available for a while, but as I’m only the author, I was left to find it on my own.
Read entry →April 22, 2019 · 210 words
Terran Prize Awarded!
The Terran Prize for 2019, sponsored by George RR Martin and consisting of a scholarship for a foreign writer to this year’s Taos Toolbox Workshop, has been awarded to Chinese author Zhou Wen (昼温.) Zhou was born in Jinan, Shandong province, and has a double B.A. in English and finance, and a Master’s degree in [&hellip
Read entry →April 22, 2019 · 444 words
The Mead Story
A friend laid some home-brewed mead on us, and last night we opened a bottle and shared it with some friends who’d never had mead before. A strong, sweet honey odor and a taste to match. Pretty nice. All of which reminded me of the time I tried to brew some mead. I was maybe […]
Read entry →April 16, 2019 · 458 words
Soldier of Arete
Alas. According to multiple sources Gene Wolfe has died at the age of 87 in his Illinois home. I’ve been on a mini-binge of Gene’s books lately, mostly recently Home Fires, and I think the mini-binge will have to continue. I admired Gene’s plain, clear style, which was an ideal surface beneath which to hide the machina
Read entry →April 11, 2019 · 245 words
Metropolitan for the Masses
My novel Metropolitan is now on sale for $0.99, or for whatever $0.99 is worth in your local currency. The ebook may be found at the following online retailers: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, Apple, Google, Kobo [NOTE: the price has not yet dropped on Kobo, but it should. Very soon now. Really.] I’m stupidly proud
Read entry →April 9, 2019 · 95 words
No Longer Anonymous
Friend of the blog Anonymous— I presume not the entire hacker collective— tells me that the audio book of City on Fire is available! Go forth and listen! (While checking to see where I could find the book, I discovered that the reader reviews of City on Fire on Amazon all properly belong to a more recent bo
Read entry →April 4, 2019 · 92 words
Estecado
This year I am once again in Portales, NM, the cultural capital of the Llano Estecado, for the Jack Williamson Lectureship. The usual gang of fun-lovers is here, including Connie, Courtney, and Cordelia Willis, Toolbox survivors Sheila Hartney and Lauren Teffeau, Emily Mah, Sarena Ulibarri, and many others. Cordelia, w
Read entry →April 2, 2019 · 87 words
Toolbox Nominees!
Once again Hugo voters have inexplicably failed to recognize my greatness, but I’m very pleased to note that they have recognized the greatness of a number of veterans of Taos Toolbox, the master class for writers of science fiction and fantasy. Kelly Robson got a novella nomination for “God, Monsters, and the Lucky Pe
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