Pet Pictures Redux
Sunday, February 25th, 2007Been too busy for the Blog lately, so we're going the cheap and easy route with a cute cat picture.This is Mu.
Archive for February, 2007
Been too busy for the Blog lately, so we're going the cheap and easy route with a cute cat picture.This is Mu.
This Blog’s First Meme
Sunday, February 18th, 2007I picked up this meme, it might be a little stale, but it is a cool idea:This is a list of the 50 "most significant" science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones you've read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started ...
The Politics of SF…
Sunday, February 18th, 2007Thanks to the SF Signal Blog, over the past few weeks I’ve had the chance to read a couple of articles about the politics of science fiction. It’s interesting to compare the thoughts of Eric S. Raymond and David Brin about the political subtext of Science Fiction in general, ...
Exposition Part I: “The Butler Did It…”
Friday, February 16th, 2007First in what I hope to be a ongoing series on the technical aspects of writing fiction, particularly genre fiction, and even more particularly, SF/Fantasy fiction.A challenge to all writers, and SF/Fantasy writers in particular, is the troublesome need to get across all the important background details that the reader ...
A special bulletin
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007This is from a friend of mine in college radio. While I'm all for IP rights, it irks me when someone steps between me and my rights just to enrich themselves. Not to mention the Kafkaesqe red tape is truly frightening: ...
Places to Be, People To Kill: "Fealty"
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007About the other anthology:My story "Fealty" is about the strange return home of a knight from the siege of Antioch, and his final crusade.From the cover blurb:Assassins—are they born or made? Do they choose this role out of necessity, because someone or something forces them to, or because they just ...
Man vs. Machine: "The Historian’s Apprentice"
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007As requested, a little info on the antho and my story in it. My story, "The Historian's Apprentice," is in large part a homage to Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. It is a far-future Dying Earth story set long after an apocalyptic man-machine war that's left the ...
Covers are in…
Monday, February 12th, 2007Just got covers for two anthologies that are going to contain my stuff:Places to Be, People to Kill will be coming out June 2007, will contain the story "Fealty."Man vs. Machine will be out July 2007, and will contain "The Historian's Apprentice."
SF Discussion on Tech Republic…
Sunday, February 11th, 2007My post on the definition of SF has spawned another discussion . . .It's kind of fun seeing how my comments morph elsewhere on the net.