thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann
S Andrew Swann | October 17, 2008
The good news is that DAW’s going to re-issue my two Cleveland Portal novels, Dragons of the Cuyahoga and Dwarves of Whiskey Island in an omnibus edition due out August 2009. W000t! The bad news, Sheila at DAW told me this yesterday, and she needs me to give her a title for the thing by [...]
S Andrew Swann | October 16, 2008
So you’ve heard about ACORN and its voter registration drives where convicted felons are registering Mickey Mouse to vote 72 times across at least 12 different states. Needless to say this is red meat to the RNC, and the conservative right. Sort of like Dick Cheney’s connection to Diebold is for the liberal left. This [...]
S Andrew Swann | October 15, 2008
Last Friday I posted, among other things, that we should really start worrying when stores start taking cigarettes and booze in lieu of cash for payment. A 27-year-old Florida man named Shawn Alexander Pannullo apparently has had a crisis of faith in the economy, as he was busted trying use his stash of pot to [...]
S Andrew Swann | October 14, 2008
I’ve destroyed an entire star-system, simultaneously blown up a network of a hundred-odd wormholes across about 100 light years, and I’ve just carpet-bombed an entire planet with pure distilled singularity. . . And I’m only half done with the trilogy.
S Andrew Swann | October 13, 2008
To keep myself from writing too many depressing political posts in my blog in a row, I’m going to break things up by posting a few videos. First off is a video I came across independently via Galleycat and Whatever. It shows us that, indeed, Tom Cat are serious cat. Here, for a change of [...]
S Andrew Swann | October 10, 2008
I think the mood of the country is drifting from “how can we fix it” to “how bad is it going to get?” It seems the choices we’re being given are between Ford and Hoover, Gas Lines and Bread Lines, 1974 vs 1934. Well, I’ve been pondering some warning signs, and here’s the things I [...]
S Andrew Swann | October 9, 2008
This has been flying under the radar unless you’re like me and you follow uber-geek podcasts like I do. However, the US government has been quietly pressuring our friends and allies to sign on to a lil treaty called ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. This is the wonderful little piece of borderline-fascist policy that allows [...]
S Andrew Swann | October 8, 2008
A recent email reminded me of a panel I was on at at Context. The subject was about making dystopias, which seems an oddly timely subject. One of the things we discussed a little bit was the fact that there can be a number of different kinds of dystopia, depending on what the author was [...]
S Andrew Swann | October 7, 2008
Just to let everyone know, my book trailer for Prophets has been posted on Bookscreening.com which is a great site if you’re interested in book trailers. I appreciate them putting it up. I’ve also put up the home page for Prophets, along with the trailer.
S Andrew Swann | October 6, 2008
I don’t think anyone would say I’m easy on the characters in my books. Almost all of them, in fact, are put through several flavors of hell before the end. I have noticed something lately, a developing trend in my more recent work, that has bearing on the kind of hell I put them through. [...]
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