Daily Archives: June 9, 2006
It’s the Devil’s Book!
Posted on June 9, 2006 6 Comments
Oh no! My Amazon ranking for Old Man’s War shows that it is the work of the devil (and that yesterday it was the work of Boeing)!!!!! This just gives me an excuse to show you the poster Whatever reader Jon Hansen made me the other day with that 6/6/06 picture I put up: Excellent. […]
Killed!
Posted on June 9, 2006 18 Comments
In e-mail, someone wondering if I had thoughts on the most recent outrage in the science fiction community, which is that Asimov’s magazine killed a story it had bought from writer Jim Grimsley, called “Wendy.” As Grimsley writes at the Asimov magazine message boards: The story’s protagonist is a person with known genetic tendencies toward […]
Readercon in July
Posted on June 9, 2006 15 Comments
Note to stalkers: I’ll be at Readercon 17 this July 7-9, because, what can I say, I’m a big, fat China Mieville fanboy. I’m still trying to decide if I can make Confluence, because I hear good things about it, and the convention also dispatched someone to Wiscon to ask me to come, which I […]
Way Down in Kokomo, Plus TGB Review
Posted on June 9, 2006 10 Comments
Just a reminder, if you’re anywhere close to Indiana tomorrow, that I will be making an author appearance at Don’s Books in Kokomo tomorrow, Saturday, June 10, from noon until 2 p.m. I’ll be signing books for sure; I may also do a reading of some sort. Or possibly some interpretive dance. Or karaoke! It […]
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