Monday Monday

February 13, 2012

Monday’s the official release day for The Fourth Wall, the third in my series featuring game designer Dagmar Shaw.  Let’s party! Of course you should probably buy the book first.  If you can’t find it at your local bookstore, then it can be purchased at Amazon and B&N, or in ebook formats via Kindle and […]

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Straight From the Toolbox!

February 13, 2012

Some items concerning Taos Toolbox: First, there are still a few places available in the science fiction and fantasy master class taught by Nancy Kress, Daniel Abraham, and myself.  If you think you might want to write this sort of thing professionally, then do the professional thing and apply! Toolbox grad Sean Craven is saying […]

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Reviews Too Late: Red Cliff

February 10, 2012

One quick question:  why are films about the Alamo always boring?  I’ll leave you to ponder that while I chat about Red Cliff. Red Cliff was the most expensive film ever made in China, and also produced more Asian box office than any film, ever.  Originally it was released as two films in 2008-9, a […]

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Robot Overlord 1.0

February 9, 2012

  Want to buy your own robot fighting machine?  iRobot (a corporate name that is bound to interest the Asimov estate) will sell you the 710 Warrior for a mere . . . well, I don’t actually know the price. The Warrior 710 is a 450-pound tracked robot that is built for versatility and moving […]

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Wall Street— Gone Dark?

February 7, 2012

Just days ago I was mocking the Dodd-Frank financial reforms as overly complex and ineffectual.  But now an article in New York suggests that they have, in fact, had a considerable effect on the banking industry.  And for the good, if you ask me . . . To comply with the looming regulations, banks have […]

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Madonna . . . HIGH PRIESTESS OF SATAN!!!

February 7, 2012

Enjoyed the Super Bowl halftime show, did you?  Bet you didn’t know you were WORSHIPING THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS! According to this guy anyway.  He starts with the fact that one of Madonna’s dancers had angel wings and a harp, and goes right to the obvious conclusion that this is totally Satanic— because Lucifer was […]

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Here. Now. (Or Soon)

February 5, 2012

I don’t believe my new novel was actually supposed to be available just yet, but I’m hearing that it’s been seen on shelves . . . so hey!  If others can jump the gun, so can I! Ta-daaa!  Here you have it, The Fourth Wall! You may have seen me refer to this book by […]

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Sizing Up the Super-PACs

February 3, 2012

The New York Times has been tracking the donors to the “super-PACS,” the grossly-funded organizations which, thanks to our Supreme Court, usually boast more money than the candidates they choose to support. Let’s find out who’s behind the nation’s race to oligarchy, shall we? I’m shocked— shocked!— to discover that Wall Street seems to be […]

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Another Workshop (with Me in It)

February 3, 2012

After my last post about the workshops I’ll be teaching this year, I’ve been reminded that there was one workshop I failed to mention.  I had thought the membership was more restricted than it was, and so I reckoned a general audience wouldn’t be interested. I will be teaching a workshop in structure and plotting […]

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Reviews in the Nick of Time: Red Tails

February 2, 2012

I was intrigued when I’d heard that George Lucas believed in this movie so much that he financed it himself.  Apparently the Hollywood studios— staffed of course by all those Hollywood liberals we hear so much about— declined to finance a war epic about black people. I was very impressed that Lucas was so committed […]

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