Monthly Archives: July 2008
Soon to Ohio
Posted on July 6, 2008 8 Comments
InConJunction has been lovely, but at some point in the reasonably near future we will depart from Indianapolis and wind our way back toward Ohio and home. I’ll give a full report on the convention later, but for now just know that if you weren’t here, you totally missed out. I hope you had a […]
Quick Ping
Posted on July 5, 2008 41 Comments
Having a great time at InConJunction. Why aren’t you here? You and your excuses, I swear. How was your Fourth of July?
Zoe’s Tale Wallpaper
Posted on July 4, 2008 18 Comments
The folks at Tor.com are offering up a free computer wallpaper for folks, featuring John Harris’ art for Zoe’s Tale. Yes, now you can revel in the orange and green-ness of my book’s cover, right on your computer! It’s starship explody-licious. Get it in the next week, because that’s just how long it’ll be up. […]
Entering Slow Time
Posted on July 3, 2008 25 Comments
Travel + Holiday Weekend + Guest of Honor spot at InConJunction = Don’t expect much here through Sunday. I may post an entry or two, but then again I might not. Likewise comments. For those of you who are Americans: Happy Independence Day tomorrow. For those of you who are Britians, Happy Holy Crap We […]
The Big Idea: David Louis Edelman
Posted on July 3, 2008 11 Comments
David Louis Edelman has been making a name for himself in science fiction over the last couple of years with his Jump 225 trilogy of books, the first of which Infoquake, racked up some nice reviews and helped propel Edelman into nominations for two different kinds of John W. Campbell award (one for Best Novel, […]
Don’t Make Me Laugh
Posted on July 3, 2008
If it’s Thursday, it’s time for another AMC SF movie column. This week, I look at why so few science fiction movies are genuinely funny (and why Wall-E, which is genuinely funny, is funny in a different way from most science fiction comedies). In this column, rather than opining with heedless confidence, I admit I’m […]
Yeah, You Knew This Was Coming
Posted on July 2, 2008 11 Comments
Didn’t get around to deciding the Duck Contest today, and since I’m busy through the weekend, will probably not get to it until Monday. Sorry. But! If it’s any consolation, I’ve decided that there should be more than one winner. So now you’ve at least doubled your chances to win. See, that’s not so bad.
And It Wouldn’t Be The First Time, Either
Posted on July 2, 2008 28 Comments
Snippet from a phone conversation earlier today: Me (talking as I’m lying on the bed): Just to warn you, the cat just came up on my chest and is sticking her butt in my face, so if I suddenly go “mmmphmmph” while we’re talking, you’ll know why. Friend: Dude, I did not need to know […]
Justine, Speaking Wisdom
Posted on July 2, 2008 2 Comments
Justine Larbalestier explains why blurbing a book is harder than it looks. And not just because you have to, you know, read the whole novel. The book Justine’s talking about, incidentally, is Ekarina Sedia’s upcoming The Alchemy of Stone, which I would also agree is a lovely book.
Reminder: There’s No Actual Office for “President of the Left”
Posted on July 2, 2008 117 Comments
Apparently some Obama supporters are shocked and appalled to discover that now that he’s out of the primaries, their man is running to be the President of all the people in the United States, not just the people in the United States who have the “Yes We Can” YouTube video bookmarked on their Web browser. […]
Quack, Quack
Posted on July 2, 2008 20 Comments
Still working on it. I know, I suck. What can I say. I’ve been busy. Let’s say I’ll post a winner later today. Yeah, that’s it.
Today’s Dumb Headline
Posted on July 1, 2008 67 Comments
It’s this, courtesy of MSNBC: It’s stuff like this that makes me wonder if people pay attention to who is actually elected president around these here parts. Let’s review the military service of the folks in the last few presidential elections: 2004 Loser: Vietnam veteran, awarded Silver Star and two Purple Hearts Winner: Defended Texas […]
The Big Secret Audio Project I Haven’t Been Telling You About, Revealed
Posted on July 1, 2008 45 Comments
A few months ago, I was approached by Steve Feldberg, the Director of Content at Audible.com, who asked if I would be interested in doing an audio project with them. What project? Well, we wrestled with it for a while and came up with the idea of collecting a bunch of really interesting science fiction […]
The Big Idea: Nancy Kress
Posted on July 1, 2008 15 Comments
Your sweet adorable pet: What if it was a raging vector of viral infection? Maybe that’s not something you actually want to spend time thinking about, but that’s okay, since Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Nancy Kress already thought about it for you. The result: Dogs, which Publishers Weekly is lauding as “a spine-chilling, […]
The Hunting of the Snark, Indeed
Posted on July 1, 2008 36 Comments
The Bush Administration’s evidence against a suspected terrorist gets a smackdown in federal court: With some derision for the Bush administration’s arguments, a three-judge panel said the government contended that its accusations against the detainee should be accepted as true because they had been repeated in at least three secret documents. The court compared that […]
Aw, Crap
Posted on July 1, 2008 15 Comments
Behind on the duck contest winner. I’ll announce it later today. I swear.
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