Daily Archives: December 7, 2007
Bye Bye, By the Way and Ficlets Blog
Posted on December 7, 2007 27 Comments
Because many of you who read Whatever also read By The Way and Ficlets Blog, I’ll mention here what I’ve mentioned there: December 31 will be my last day writing in both of those blogs. You can read my notice the readers of By the Way here, and to Ficlets readers here. I’m drawing down […]
SFWA Followup
Posted on December 7, 2007 40 Comments
Last week I pointed you in the direction of Charlie Stross’ white-hot commentary about the new Copyright Committee at SFWA, and added a couple of my own comments. As a follow-on to this, SFWA has just released announcement that there is a change in the leadership of the Copyright Committee: SFWA VP Andrew Burt is […]
Speaking of Philip Pullman
Posted on December 7, 2007 6 Comments
The folks at Rough Guides, who will be bringing out the second edition of my astronomy book early next year, were kind enough to send along The Rough Guide to Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, which, very much as the title suggests, tells you all about the world Pullman created, a bit about the movie […]
A Month of Writers, Day Seven: Brandon Sanderson
Posted on December 7, 2007 32 Comments
Not only is Brandon Sanderson a best-selling fantasy writer and a two-time Campbell Award nominee, the man is also the first (and, likely, only) winner of The Scalzi Award, which of course makes it one of the most exclusive awards in science fiction and fantasy, like, ever. So bow down to the man, why don’t […]
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