Archive for March, 2011
Reading Recommendation: Nnedi Okorafor’s “Who Fears Death”
While finishing up as much Nebula Awards reading as possible, I ordered and then devoured Nnedi Okorafor’s powerful novel “Who Fears Death.” Interestingly enough, her story that I recommended a few posts ago, “The Book of Phoenix” fits into this novel. The world-building is phenomenal, full of symbolism and magic and yet close enough for [...]
Robotics, Synchronicity, and Tales for Canterbury
I’ve been writing about robots this past year or so. While I was preparing for a speech and looking deeply at robotics, story ideas fell out the air around me as I realized how much good work is happening in robotics. One of those stories is “The Robot’s Girl” which was published in Analog last [...]
Mayan December Pre-orders are now available
I’m very pleased to announce that pre-orders are open on Amazon for the print copy of Mayan December (Pub date August 23rd, 2011). And for those of you wondering, yes there will be a Kindle version! Thanks to Prime Books!
Transcript of #sffwrtcht
In case you want a break from the generally disturbing news, here is the transcript of a lovely hour-long chat I had on Twitter at the hashtag #sffwrtcht. Thanks to Bryan Thomas Schmidt for hosting an excellent event. Topics included my next book, Mayan December, writing, collaborating, and dogs. Well, you know, there has to [...]
Mayan Reading: The Sacred Well, by Antoinette May
There are certain events – and places – that inspire creativity in many people. Ancient Rome. Egypt. World War II. One of those is also surely December 2012 and the end of the Mayan Calendar. The place – of course – is the Yucatan Peninsula. Now that I’m finished with my own novel set there [...]
Crowd Power: Crowdsourcing Today
My newest column at Futurismic explores the power of crowds. Before I started researching this, I knew about crowd-sourcing used to get people to a particular place to do something interesting like perform the Thriller dance in mass in public, or for demonstrations (Tahrir Square). I knew about crowd-sourced translation projects. I didn’t know [...]
First comments back on Mayan December
This is from Glen Hiemstra of Futurist.com: Mayan December is an exciting tale of the ancient Mayans and the end of the Mayan calendar in the near future, as seen through the eyes of a time-traveling youngster named Nixie. What begins as an interesting trip to Chichen Itza for the December 2012 equinox becomes a [...]
Reading Recommendation: Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix….
The whole title is The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book). I listened to this as a podcast on the way over to the Rainforest Writer’s Retreat. It was quite awesome. I don’t really want to say too much about it since it’s not very long, but I like it a lot. And, [...]
