Monthly Archives: February 2005

Agent to the Stars — Available for Pre-order

Okay, here’s that big announcement I mentioned the other day: Subterranean Press is now accepting pre-orders for the limited, signed hardback edition of Agent to the Stars. When you pre-order this book, not only will you be getting a unique collector’s edition of this novel, you’ll also contribute to an excellent cause: Providing games and […]

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Agent to the Stars — Available for Pre-order

Okay, here’s that big announcement I mentioned the other day: Subterranean Press is now accepting pre-orders for the limited, signed hardback edition of Agent to the Stars. When you pre-order this book, not only will you be getting a unique collector’s edition of this novel, you’ll also contribute to an excellent cause: Providing games and […]

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The Why of Writing

Charlie Stross, whose Accelerando you should have already pre-ordered because it’s just that good, goes into some detail as to how it is he’s able to write (short answer: life experience and luck) but is mystified as to the reason why he writes, and says: “If you find it, be sure to tell me?” Well, […]

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Virtual Book Tours

Via S.L. Viehl, I note the existence of Virtual Book Tour, a public relations group which specializes in connecting authors with blogs to complement (or in the stead of) an actual book tour, for a fee ranging anywhere from $225 for a minimal “blogmatching” with three blogs to a three-day “tour” for $3000. Ms. Viehl […]

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w00t!

0ld m4/\/z w4|2 is teh r0><0r, d00dz!!!! I 4m 1337!! Oh, don’t mind me. I’m just trying to hang with the kids and, you know, speak teh language. (For those of you completely out in the dark, the number “1337” — which is the Amazon ranking in the picture above — is an analogue for […]

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I Never

(Warning/Enticement: Unseemly yet anti-climatically non-revealing sexual content follows) A correspondent notes: Your riff on 10 Things I’ve Done You Probably Haven’t reminds me of a little parlor game we used to play that was almost the inverse: The “I’ve Never…” Game in which each person at the table, in the car, around the campfire, lounging […]

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The Problem With Parents

Those of you who come here often know that I’m no fan of the more obnoxious elements of the “child-free” community, and indeed positively delight in their snitty impotent rage at small children and the people who breed them. That being said, I will give the childfree folks credit for harping on one very important […]

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Washington Post Review of OMW…

…Courtesy of Paul Di Fillipo. The review is halfway down the page. It’s a good one, which is nice: His speculative elements are top-notch. His combat scenes are blood-roiling. His dialogue is suitably snappy and profane. And the moral and philosophical issues he raises, while not as deeply plumbed as in Joe Haldeman’s classic The […]

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Washington Post Review of OMW…

…Courtesy of Paul Di Fillipo. The review is halfway down the page. It’s a good one, which is nice: His speculative elements are top-notch. His combat scenes are blood-roiling. His dialogue is suitably snappy and profane. And the moral and philosophical issues he raises, while not as deeply plumbed as in Joe Haldeman’s classic The […]

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10 Things I’ve Done You Probably Haven’t

There’s a LiveJournal meme floating around at the moment that asking people to list ten things they’ve done that other people they know probably haven’t. I’m taking it from LJ and releasing it into the wilds. Here are my 10, in no particular order: 1. Scaled scaffolding on a church and touched the cross at […]

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