Now it can be told...
Hello, apocalypse buddies. I hope everybody is staying as safe as possible, and is bunkered down and resupplied for a long haul. We’re going to be at this...
Sustainability: on preserving, and self-preservation, and planning for the future
Hey, folks. Happy Monday. (checks: yep! Monday!) How are you holding up in The New Normal? Is it starting to feel a little more routine? A little less like...
NONE DARE CALL IT HUMMUS: substitutions and stretching
Phew. Well, we’re well in it now, and in between panic attacks I’m starting to feel a little more normal. Settling in. My town closed its hiking trails,...
Apocalypse Chow: How to make yogurt and stay sane.
Hey, folks. Hanging in there? Getting some sleep? Staying hydrated? Exercising an abundance of caution? Limiting news dumps? Fantastic. Good job. I woke up...
How to entertain yourself while you're sheltering in place...
Teach your cat to play skeeball Pretend you're a character in the Aubrey and Maturin books; this will make the monotonous diet seem more fun. Use hoarded...
The part you throw away
Because everything is better with a Tom Waits reference. Hey, folks. Well, today, I’m not doing so great, as I made this mistake of reading an article by a...
Food is love in a time of coronavirus, fried rice and emotional labor.
Hey, folks, Here’s a moment to breathe. In, out, in again. Check in with your body. Think about the weight of your body pressing you down into your chair,...
Adapt, improvise, overcome. And some strategies for coping with that cabinet full of shelf-stable STUFF.
Hey, folks, I’ve been working on the page proofs for Machine, which are now a week late due to apocalypse delay, and (sadly) cancelling my guest of honor...
The coming singularity is here.
Hey, folks, It’s been a week or two, hasn’t it? It seems like over the past seven days, everybody who hadn’t already realized that a Major Problem was...
Can't get away from the book sales and cover reveals.
Hello, folks, First up, The US cover for Machine has been revealed, and it’s a doozy! The full post is up over at The Book Smugglers (a fantastic site) with...
Food is love in a time of coronavirus, part two.
Hi, friends. First things first, apparently my novel Dust (Jacob’s Ladder #1, first book in a series that takes place several hundred years before Ancestral...
Food is love
Hey, folks. This is not going to be the suddenly-obligatory How To Work From Home opinion piece, because I’ve never personally found working from home...
Before apocalypse, chop wood, carry water...
During apocalypse, cover art still shows up. As a brief distraction from building a fortress out of ramen noodles, I offer the UK cover art for MACHINE,...
It never rains but it pours manuscripts.
Hey, folks! Everything is going on here and not much of it is “news,” I’m afraid. Spring is arriving ahead of schedule and the cats are thrilled by the...
What a long strange month it's been.
Hey, folks. I have no excuse for not having written in so long, I’m afraid, other than being overwhelmed and exhausted. Mid-life brain chemistry changes are...
The Best of Elizabeth Bear is out today!
Out today! Don’t delay!
No Sleep Til Brookline
Hello, friends! A brief note to let you know what’s going on! First, a public appearance: I’ll be at the Brookline Booksmith in Brookline MA on Friday at 7...
Memoirs of a Space Traveler
MIT Press asked me to write a foreword for this new edition of Memoirs of a Space Traveler, by Stanislaw Lem, and I was very pleased indeed to do...
Received wisdom and shibboleths.
This post is brought to you by the fact that, this morning (which will be, oh, about a week ago by the time this newsletter goes out), I crouched down to...
The Best of UNCANNY is out now!
Does what it says on the tin and you can read all about it right here.