Daily Archives: October 20, 2016
Redshirts Wins the Geffen Award
Posted on October 20, 2016 13 Comments
Happy to say that the Hebrew edition of Redshirts (translated by Zafrir Grossman) won this year’s Geffen Award — Israel’s most notable SF/F award — in the category of Best Translated Science Fiction Novel. A fine honor! This is my second Geffen (the first was for the Old Man’s War back in 2007), and it’s […]
White Dudes, Trump, and America
Posted on October 20, 2016 155 Comments
Dear other white dudes: Last night on the Las Vegas debate stage Donald Trump, for whom statistically speaking most us white dudes are planning to vote for, refused to say whether he would concede the election if it went against him, as it almost certainly will. He says he’s doing that because he believes the election […]
Why Clinton is Winning (One Reason, Anyway)
Posted on October 20, 2016 80 Comments
The third presidential debate is in the books, and while the noisiest news coming out of it is about a petulant white nationalist blustering on stage about whether or not he’ll concede the election if he loses, as if that matters for the legal transfer of power (it doesn’t; it’s just that if he doesn’t, […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying