Wild Visitor

October 15, 2011

I was alone in the deserted Snow Bear lodge, but I thought I heard someone moving around, and on the assumption it was the landlord, I went looking for him.  Instead I found this golden-eyed beauty perched on the rear balcony. A brief web search indicates that this is a Great Horned Owl, though if […]

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I Am At Snow Bear

October 12, 2011

  I am at Snow Bear for a one-man writer’s retreat, wherein I plan to exercise mightily, eat simply, and write lots and lots. I could use a little less snow and ice, frankly.  But I’ll just have to go below the snow line for my trail hikes. I would also like to upload some […]

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Goldman’s Game of Life

October 12, 2011

Does anyone remember The Game of Life?  You drove in a little plastic car around the game board, and if you made all the right decisions, you’d end up with a home in the suburbs, a mortgage, and 2.5 children.  Which was the game’s definition of happiness, I guess. Those zany jokers at Goldman have […]

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Skynet Got Drones!

October 11, 2011

  A computer virus has hit the entire U.S. drone fleet.  The virus— a keylogger— was first spotted a couple weeks ago, and is proving very difficult to scrub from the drones and their servers. So far the virus hasn’t interfered with the drones’ missions, but that only means that Skynet is biding its time […]

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Reviews Too Late: Max Manus (2008)

October 10, 2011

Fearful, apparently, that American audiences might not know that Max Manus was a celebrated Norwegian resistance fighter, the American release is subtitled MAN OF WAR, so everyone will think the film is about a race horse. Max Manus was the most expensive film ever made in Norway, and is based on Max’s two autobiographical works, […]

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Doom Plus. Gloom Plus.

October 7, 2011

Last week I linked to a BBC video interview with Alessio Rastani, a trader who predicted that, well, Europe is well and truly fucked, and the rest of us with it, and that he and a lot of other people were prepared to make a lot of money off Europe’s misery.  The response from the […]

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Prayers on the Wind

October 6, 2011

I got a little weary of copy-editing entire novels, so I decided to make my Nebula-nominated novelette, Prayers on the Wind, available for your reading pleasure.  You may download it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords. It’s only 99 cents!  What have you got to lose? The story was written at the request of […]

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Reviews Too Late: 13 Assassins

October 2, 2011

13 Assassins is a terrific film, but only if you’re the sort of person who enjoys films that end with an excruciating 40-minute bloodbath in which a couple hundred people are sliced, decapitated, shot, disemboweled, stabbed, run through, blown up, buried under collapsing buildings, and trampled by a herd of stampeding cattle that have been […]

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Ebook Updates!

October 1, 2011

The Hardwired ebook is now available for your reading pleasure on Kindle, Nook, and via Smashwords. Smashwords will distribute to all you Sony Reader, iPad, and Kobo users, though it may take some weeks for this to appear in all catalogs. (The formatting problems mentioned in an earlier post have all been resolved.  Download with […]

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No Money Changed Hands

September 28, 2011

I would like to salaam in the direction of author Jo Walton, who has once again defied Internet tradition by committing another unsolicited act of total niceness.   In other words, she wrote another discerning essay for Tor.com about my work, in this case Metropolitan and City on Fire. Honestly, I’m not paying this woman. I’ll […]

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