Archive for September, 2007

Reading Recommendation: Maximum Ride (the trilogy)

September 26th 2007 at 3:59 am

This is a YA series by James Patterson. It’s very, very clever. I’d call it “Wizard of Oz meets Frankenstein in the Brave New World with a really, really cool protagonist. Add spice from superhero comics.” I shouldn’t have to comment on Patterson’s prolific ability to write an engaging story - [...]

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Paperback of Silver Ship and the Sea Pub Date

September 25th 2007 at 6:40 am

Based on my Google alerts note this morning, Amazon in Canada is advertising the paperback version The Silver Ship and the Sea for July, 2008. Now, the US version of Amazon doesn’t show it at all. The book has been widely avaiolable in Canada, at least according to some of my friends who’ve [...]

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Sci-fi Favorites at the Symphony

September 22nd 2007 at 7:22 pm

Toni and I went out to the Seattle Symphony last night. They played “sci-fi favorites” with a laser show — I highly recommend it! Its pretty easy to forget that a lot of our science fiction moveis really have fabulous scores.

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Workshops can be good for the soul

September 17th 2007 at 6:28 am

I attended a writing workshop at the Hugo House yesterday with Charles de Lint. He is one of my favorite authors - he writes clean, upbeat, intersting fiction where his characters deal with current problems - all of it set in cities and towns and touched by magic. He calls it Mythic Fiction [...]

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A Little Follow Up

September 15th 2007 at 8:13 am

From my last few blogs …
From the September 11th vigil, and relating to future vigils…the Citizens on the Lake for Peace website. Nicely done.
Second…I really think good engineers might save the world some day. Part of that could be because my dad is one, and he saved me a few times…but aside from [...]

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Google’s Winning Moon Madness

September 14th 2007 at 6:27 am

The space enthusiast in me is really pleased with Google this week, as they’ve announced a prize for getting commercial craft developed to land on the moon. In this case, read that as real people instead of big government. They also picked a nice spot — the moon is close enough. They’re [...]

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Thoughts from the night after

September 12th 2007 at 9:20 pm

So I did go to the vigil last night. It felt like it made September 11 meaningful.
I even took the microphone once, and said something about how we had squandered a great chance for world peace in the year after 9/11 by choosing bombs instead of care packages and education, by choosing guns instead [...]

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Thoughts from the night before

September 10th 2007 at 9:20 pm

Six years ago tomorrow my alarm clock, set to NPR news, delivered me into a waking nightmare.
Sometimes I am still convinced it must be a bad dream - its hard to believe we squandered the outpouring of world support, mired ourselves in a pointless war when we should have given the Middle East [...]

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Things Sneak up on You

September 9th 2007 at 8:46 pm

I was filing papers tonight, so I took a few moments to update my list of publications, and found I have seven short stories pending publication - which might be a personal best for all at one time. And mostly, that’s the result of taking an extra month after the last book to focus [...]

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Reading Recommendation: Down and Out on Coyote

September 9th 2007 at 7:04 pm

I just love Allen Steele Coyote stories. There’s a new four-parter started in the Oct/Nov 2007 Asimov’s. I was actually thinking of not renewing my subscription (yes, I love the magazine, and I want to support it: no I don’t have time to read it regularly and it’s a tree-killer that I have [...]

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Reading the Wind by Brenda Cooper

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"Brenda Cooper's newest novel is a feast of character and concept. She depicts the devastation of war on microcosmic and macrocosmic levels, and even more so, the driving motives of young men and women caught in deadly conflict. Cooper is a master explorer of the interaction of society and individuals. She probes the psychology of her genetically enhanced characters with both rare depth and fidelity to scientific plausibility. Moral conundrums drive the plot in this unforgettable narrative. Don't miss this compelling work by a major new talent." - Mary A. Turzillo, An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl.

"Brenda Cooper tells a tale of a powerful brother and sister in a fight for their lives, offering insights along the way into the nature of courage and the hunger for community that burns in every human being. This is a lively book, full of colorful images and a memorable cast of human and animal characters, a worthy successor to The Silver Ship and the Sea." - Louise Marley

Available in July, 2008, from Tor Books.

The Silver Ship and the Sea by Brenda Cooper

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"The first solo novel by Larry Niven's Building Harlequin's Moon (2005) coauthor portrays the thoroughly convincing human colonial society on Fremont, a dangerous planet rife with vicious predators, frequent earthquakes, and falling meteors....Distinctive characterizations, well-limned interrelationships, and the vividly realized Fremont contribute to an exciting coming-of-age story with a strong message about the evils of prejudice." - Sally Estes, Copyright American Library Association.

Mass Market Paperback, July 2008.
Included by Booklist as a "Best Adult Book for Young Adults."

Building Harlequin's Moon by Brenda Cooper and Larry Niven

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"Fans of both hard and softer, psychological SF will welcome veteran Niven and newcome Cooper's well-written tale of a 60,000 year layover in space, in which physical challenges of world building are matched by the social challenges of collaboration among disparate groups." - Publisher's Weekly

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