Archive for April, 2011
Relay for Life
Warning: Yes, this is a rare personal post and yes, I’m fund-raising. Cancer took my little brother Russy last year. It’s assaulting two of my friends right now; a sweet man named Pere who worked with Russy for years, and a writer friend, Jay Lake. It’s inside my partner’s sister and wreaking havoc on that [...]
Writers who have created science fiction that could save the world
I’m at Norwescon, and one of the panels I was on posed the question, “Can science fiction save the world?” Much discussion ensued, most of it excellent. Conclusions: Maybe. It has (think of Orwell, Bradbury, etc). It’s often the stories and books that are written with no agenda to save the world that have an [...]
Norwescon 2011 Schedule
I have a great schedule for NORWESCON, coming up in Seatac next weekend. I do want to draw attention to the reading for Mayan December (coming in August from Prime Books) – it’s early in the con, and so I will have some limits on my time to advertise it. I’m very excited about the [...]
Very cool patch for a new story
I have a new story coming out soon in the anthology “Defending the Future IV: No Man’s Land.” The anthology is being published by Dark Quest Books, and was edited by Mike McPhail. Each story gets a patch that illustrates the story. Here is the patch for “Cracking the Sky.” More on the anthology and [...]
Reading Recommendation: River Marked by Patricia Briggs
I love Coyote stories. I love Patricia Brigg’s work. This book is both. It may be the best of the Mercy series so far. This is, by the way, what I did last Sunday afternoon. I sat in a big comfy chair, put my foot up (still recovering from surgery) , and read the thing [...]
Mayan (er…Aztec) Reading: Servant of the Underworld, by Aliette de Bodard
I’m busy reading books and stories set either in 2012 or in the Yucatan Peninsula. I read Aliette de Bodard’s Nebula nominated novelette, “The Jaguar House, In Shadow” and loved it so much that I went right to her novel “Servant of the Underworld.” It’s a bit of a cheat for this post series because [...]
