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Reading Recommendation: Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell

July 29th 2010 at 5:36 am

This is a rare case of “Saw the movie, bought the book,” and even rarer case of “both worked.”  For my usual readers, It’s NOT genre fiction, except to the extent the life of people in Ozark Mountains feels a planet away from Seattle.  I’m currently working on a strong female character in my novel [...]

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Reading Recommendation: One Monk and one Briggs

June 4th 2010 at 5:29 am

As I’ve posted, I’ve been dealing with cancer in the immediate family, which has pretty much shot my love for complexity (got enough of it, thank you very much).  My favorite kind of fiction, which is dense and complex science fiction, is just not holding onto me  — my little monkey-enabled brain is wandering [...]

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Norwescon Schedule

March 30th 2010 at 7:44 pm

For those of you who will be around Norwescon this weekend, here’s where you can for sure find me:
Friday, 9:00 a.m., Cascade 7
Climate Change in the 21st Century
There is more CO2 in the atmosphere now than at any time during the last 650,000 years. Climate alterations are expected to be serious: more intense storms, more [...]

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Planning a Seattle Futures Meeting

February 7th 2010 at 8:56 pm

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 [...]

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Geek Girl Goes Army

January 23rd 2010 at 5:40 pm

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 [...]

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Thanks so much!

November 11th 2009 at 8:54 am

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 [...]

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Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming Site Interviews Me

September 25th 2009 at 6:23 am

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 [...]

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Off to Flyball-Land

September 18th 2009 at 1:16 pm

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 [...]

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In Which the Sf Signal Mind Meld Talks About First SF Reads

September 16th 2009 at 6:28 am

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 [...]

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A Stop by the Booksellers Association

September 12th 2009 at 7:20 am

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 [...]

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Publications

A recent short story of mine is “My Father’s Singularity,” which came out in ClarkesWorld Issue #45

The story is available to read online, to purchase for Kindle, or as a podcast.

Wings of Creation by Brenda Cooper

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“The sequel to The Silver Ship and the Sea (2007) and Reading the Wind (2008) is intense and increasingly complex. Cooper continues to limn interpersonal relationships in considerable depth, including this time those of some individual fliers. Happily, the ending suggests yet another episode to come.” - Booklist

Available now from Tor Books in hardcover, on the Kindle, and on ibooks.

Reading the Wind by Brenda Cooper

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Audio promo:

“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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Audio promo:

“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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