Art is scary and art is hard.
Hey, folks, I have been watching The Bear (no spoilers please, I'm about a third of the way through the second season and I'm not a binge watching type:...
You were meant to be here... from the beginning?
Hey, folks, My brain is still a little on the fritz from Readercon, which was great but also a lot for a pandemic-reinforced introvert such as myself....
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Speculative Medicine: Thursday July 13 at 8 pm EDT in Salon B The Lure of the Heist: Friday July 14 at 7 pm EDT in Salon A Kaffeeklatsch: Saturday July 15 at...
Today was the kind of morning where you need coffee to make the coffee.
Good morning, folks, Wow, it’s been the kind of week that makes you wish you were in a position to put a frog in Mitch McConnell’s soup, hasn’t it? But at...
And though there's so much to do, there's only so many hours in the day, hey hey.
Hey, folks, Just a little check-in from the other side of 4th Street (survived! No covid reports!) to let you know that my next appearance will be at...
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The hungry sheep look up and are not fed.
Hey everybody, Greetings from the smoke-filled cozy apocalypse of the upper Midwest, where the sun rose orange and heavy this morning and Scott and I had an...
Another visit to cancerland, the world's worst vacation destination.
Hey, folks, Not going to bury the lede here, everything is big-picture fine and there’s no recurrence; don’t worry. I am however still having some post-...
We had some good machines, but they don't work no more.*
Lily-of-the-Valley was my grandmother’s favorite flower. When we moved into this house, I was thrilled to find a thriving plantation of it around the base of...
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The Folded Sky draft is handed in. I’ve been working on this book for five year, with breaks to do other stuff along the way, and I am glad to have handed it...
If you can't achieve synthesis, how about an orgy of violence?
One of the most fascinating elements of modern speculative fiction, that descendant of scientifiction, of SFF, of sci-fi, of fantastical literature, of...
I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date--
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When you play more sports you're going to need more stadiums: the Rainbow Age of Speculative Fiction
Hey, folks, At worldcon, I was arguing (in the rhetorical barcon sense, not the having a fight sense) with a friend about the Rainbow Age of Science Fiction,...
To serve Mankind. I mean, to save $20.
I got my blood pressure taken by a marsh-wiggle last week. I went to see a podiatrist about my persistent recurring metatarsal pain, and discovered that his...
Spóla update
The trainer who is working with Scott's new horse sent this. Apparently she was sacked out completely for over an hour, which is a good sign with horses....
People jumping out of perfectly good spaceships, 30% off.
Hey everybody! Just wanted to let my UK/Commonwealth readers know that IN CELEBRATION OF THE DAY, the paperbacks of MACHINE and ANCESTRAL NIGHT are 30% off...
Fellas, it's been good to know you.
I was pretty sure Gordon Lightfoot was going to live forever, but I see on the slowly entropizing Twitter machine that he’s passed away. So this seems like a...
I'm sorry your mom blew up.
So the bird food I'm giving the birds? Has raisins in it. And I don't think birds like raisins. I am John Cusack's mom in BETTER OFF DEAD*. "It's got raisins...
Barnes & Noble pre-order sale!
Hey folks! Just a quick heads up that pre-orders are 25% off at B&N for the next three days, and The Origin of Storms trade paperback is on their list!...
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