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Random things
Computers in cars are not always a good thing. Porn Stars and Dungeons & Dragons. History is strange. Do you trust buildings made with slave labor? P. G. Wodehouse does Batman. Howard Stern is fed up.
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Two Blogish Things
Blogish Thing #1: The Amazon/Macmillan thing continues rolling on, making Amazon look more and more the villian to those of us who write for a living. Reactions are varied, and I’d like to endorse Scalzi’s call not to boycott, but to buy books from the affected authors. Also like Scalzi, Read more…
Apotheosis Trilogy
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Today I’ve a guest blog post up @ SciFiGuy.ca wherein I go and mull over my current obsessions on religion and space opera in the Apotheosis Trilogy. Can you write SF about religion? It’s an interesting question because when people tend to think of Religion and SF, it almost always Read more…
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Grand Decay. . .
Browsing around the interwebs I’ve come across some cool galleries of modern ruins. These pictures have a weight to them in times like these, perhaps a glimpse into a common future. One wonders what Dubai might look like in a dozen years.
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So how many variations are there of this theme?
The funny photo-blog. It, I think, started with cats: Followed by the wonders of fail: and politics. . . But now its gone a little overboard. . . we have sites for Jury-Rigging, Cars, Bad Tattoos, Irony, WTF, Female WTF, Photobombing, Win, Real Estate, Weddings, Bad Fashion, Bad Fashion at Read more…
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For you last minute shoppers out there. . .
Thriller writer J.C. Hutchins has compiled a sampler PDF of gift ideas: That’s the idea behind this In the Nick of Time! holiday sampler PDF. Inside are excerpts from a dozen new novels and nonfiction books by these New York Times bestselling authors, successful entrepreneurs, and wickedly talented storytellers. Cool Read more…
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Trolls, I gots them.
Internet trolls are fascinating creatures. They live in the nooks and crannies of the internet, eager to pounce on any unwary passer-by. I find the psychology fascinating, as trolls almost always advocate a political point of view, and do it exceedingly badly. So badly that one is often left wondering Read more…
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More Reviews and Blog updatery
First off, got a brand new Wolfbreed review on sffworld.com. Second off, speaking of Wolfbreed, I’ve put up a sample chapter for your perusal. Third off, speaking of sample chapters, I’ve done likewise for Prophets. Fourth off, I’ve added pages for upcoming 2010 titles, Wolf’s Cross and Heretics.
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We gots badges
I was e-mailed both of these in rather quick succession, and while I don’t have the space for graphical badges on my book pages, I thought I’d set up a blog post to show them off. I’ve linked the graphics to the reviews in question. It does seem that Wolfbreed Read more…