Daily Archives: February 8, 2006
Achieving Bookosity
Posted on February 8, 2006 13 Comments
What’s that smell? Why, it’s the toasty, buttery scent of author copies, fresh from the FedEx truck! They’re booktastic! More to the point, the fact I have my copies means that although it’s debatable that The Ghost Brigades is going to show up soon at bookstore near me, given that my local bookseller didn’t bother […]
The Looney Tunes Characters Will Soon Be Looking For Work
Posted on February 8, 2006 15 Comments
Yes, yes, I know. Serious topic. But come on. You can’t tell me some of the headline writers at CNN weren’t chortling to themselves when one of them wrote that.
TGB Review at SFSignal
Posted on February 8, 2006 13 Comments
It’s a thumbs-up: The Ghost Brigades proves that his awesome 2005 debut, Old Man’s War, was no fluke… It’s hard to not like a story when it’s obvious in the writing that the author is having so much fun with it. It’s true that I had fun writing this one; I like making things up […]
Ursine Wisdom
Posted on February 8, 2006 11 Comments
A bit of intelligence from Elizabeth Bear: “Feminism is never an excuse for laughably bad prose.” Indeed not. Feminism is never an excuse; neither, for that matter, is socialism, capitalism, libertarianism, objectivism, Catholicism, Marxism, racism, or any other sort of -ism you wish to think up of, up to and including the ones that don’t, […]
NASA Becomes Marginally Less Stupid
Posted on February 8, 2006 12 Comments
Looks like NASA won’t have George Deutsch to kick around anymore after all: George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters’ access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word “theory” at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying