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Planning a Seattle Futures Meeting
I used to attend monthly futurist meetings in Santa Monica California, run by John Smart. They were great get togethers – a pile of people interested in talking about the future. Eclectic. It was scientists and techs from JPL and the local universities, people off the street, students, business people, consultants, etc. Often up to [...]
Geek Girl Goes Army
I was lucky enough to be an invited speaker and guest at the 2010 Mad Scientist Future Technology Center, put on by TRADOC G-2, which is part of the US Army. Other attendees were from various armed forces (including some form different countries), other science fiction writers, and subject matter experts in various science and [...]
Thanks so much!
I really appreciate the community out here – there were many post and retweets and the like to celebrate the Wings of Creation release yesterday. It makes a writer (at least this writer) feel surrounded by family even when she’s off at work and wearing her other, more mundane hats.
Congrats to Sara A. Mueller for [...]
Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming Site Interviews Me
I find the Wii a bit of challenge and run off the road easily in Mario Kart. I suspect that means I might be a klutz in an MMO world. Ah well, if I had time to play MMO games, I would love them. I’ve watched over shoulders before and sighed heavily. They’re like TV [...]
Off to Flyball-Land
I write books. My family does lovely things with dogs and tennis balls and pink uniforms. This weekend I’m doing the dog thing. If you’re interested in dogs and tennis balls and leaping over jumps, here is a video of the high end of the sport. We will post info at http://www.threedogsblog.com if we have [...]
In Which the Sf Signal Mind Meld Talks About First SF Reads
I got to participate again. I really like these – both doing my little snippets for them, and seeing what we all come out with on the end. Of note this time: Many of us started with Heinlein. There is also a Facebook thread on this based on a tweet I made at 2:00 AM [...]
A Stop by the Booksellers Association
I was lucky enough to be invited to the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association annual meeting in Portland. The people were all very friendly and great lovers of books – mostly owners of independent bookstores, librarians, and publishers. With a few authors here and there. Obviously, the writer in me was tickled pink, Who wouldn’t be [...]
Comment for a chance to win a book
I’m having a triple release celebration here — Reading the Wind comes out in mass market this month, Wings of Creation comes out November 10th, and of course the Academy of New World Historians showed up on the web yesterday.
To celebrate all that, I’m giving one book a week away to someone who comments here [...]
World-con Midcon Report
It’s Sunday morning, and I am still working on recovering from a very small taste of a yellowish drink called absinthe. A small amount left me slightly fuzzy-heading for panel on philosophy which (luckily) had some very capable members. On the other hand, it’s possible my fuzzy head was caused by the limerick panel I moderated at 10:00 PM. [...]
Nanotechnology – Column Posted at Futurismic
First, my newest column is up at Futurismic. This month I took a look at nanotechnology. These columns are intended to be a broad brush look at current events in major fields of science, and a short commentary on a few ways those fields have been discussed in science fiction (this time I mention Greg [...]
