Daily Archives: March 18, 2008
RIP, Arthur C. Clarke
Posted on March 18, 2008 34 Comments
Via Charles Stross, who got it via AP, Arthur C. Clarke has died. Too much to say about it — it’ll have to wait until I don’t have a splitting headache. But in short, we owe him for helping make some of the good parts of the world we live in. Ad astra, sir. Update: […]
I’m Alive
Posted on March 18, 2008 17 Comments
Made it to Chicago — I’m actually a little past Chicago, actually, since the hotel I’m at is one of those a mile out from the airport. It’s technically Chicago but it feels more like Irvine, with much worse weather. The trip was fine except the last hour, which was the Kennedy Expressway crawl, which […]
The Big Idea: Caitlin Kittredge
Posted on March 18, 2008 9 Comments
I wish I could tell you something about Night Life, the dark fantasy novel by Caitlin Kittredge, but I can’t, because I haven’t read it. And the reason I haven’t read it is that when it came in, my wife looked at it, thought it looked interesting, and took it. And since then she’s entirely […]
The Writer’s Dream
Posted on March 18, 2008 10 Comments
Last night, I dreamed I was in a supermarket, and they had two of my books in the book racks. And I remember that I actually stopped all the action in my dream, went back and counted the number of individual copies (four copies of The Ghost Brigades, two copies of The Android’s Dream). Because […]
The Big Idea: J.F. Lewis
Posted on March 18, 2008 15 Comments
Vampire novels: ever get tired of reading the gothic angst of the undead? J.F. Lewis did — a minor issue, because, you see, he sort of wanted to write a vampire novel himself. So what do you do when you’re in a situation like that? You go back to first principles and re-examine what it […]
Tuesday Travel Twofer
Posted on March 18, 2008 13 Comments
Today (Tuesday) I am traveling to Chicago for secret nefarious purposes of my own (read: doing some early publicity stuff for Zoe’s Tale) and thus will be busy doing things like driving, driving and driving some more. And YET, even driving I’ll spend less time traveling than if I flew into Chicago, and this way […]
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