Behold!   It is the special Walter Jon Williams issue of Subterranean Magazine, which features not only my classic story “Surfacing” but my new novella “The Boolean Gate,” which you can now read for free. (Which means that you don’t absolutely have to […]

I’m off the dive boat, and back in the rather discouraging town of Cairns.  During the last week I’ve racked up 25 dives in the Coral Sea and on the Great Barrier Reef, both of which were full of Teh Awesome. I haven’t got my land legs back, so when I walk around, the earth […]

I landed in Cairns in the middle of a heat wave, with temperatures of 38 degrees Celsius.  Which, for those of you on Fahrenheit, is well past the temperature at which Walter melts. So instead of venturing forth for adventure, I’ve been hiding in my hotel room, where there’s air conditioning, and only leaving for […]

File this under Serendipity. We had a long drive planned for today, leaving Te Anau in the southwest for a drive across most of the South Island toward Christchurch.  We weren’t even planning on stopping in Oamaru, but Kathy wanted to stop by the information centre and see if we could book a room farther […]