Experts Agree Giant, Bioengineered Crabs Pose No Threat
Will No One Rid Us of This Troublesome Priest?
Category: rant, sciliticsI think I might want to be an American. I don’t say this easily. The acid shit-soup aftertaste of the Cheney administration still burbles at the backs of our throats; deregulated dominoes continue to topple the world over; Rush Limbaugh is yet taken seriously by an alarmingly large army of devotees. And yet, I can’t […]
I Can Dream, Can’t I?
Category: public interfaceMy Book, the Movie has posted my wish-list for the main cast of a Rifters movie; it’s also running over at Campaign for the American Reader, which sounds a lot less self-aggrandizing. Thanks to all those who responded to my pleas for suggestions, especially those who turned me on to Ellen Page. Now, to the […]
Where’s Harry Tuttle When You Need Him?
Category: miscI know this is a long shot, but maybe someone out there can help me. My problem is this: everyone I can reach at Revenue Canada tells me that I can only get my Residency Certificate through a specific office in London, Ontario. And every last one of them refuses to give me the contact […]
Bedtime Stories
Category: ink on art, reviews, riftersMore about me, I’m afraid. Given the current prospects for this gig I can’t really get motivated to invest the necessary time and effort for a proper science posting— but when other folks talk about me, I can talk about them in turn with minimal effort. Today the guy that’s talking about me writes something […]
Flotsam in the Ego Surf
Category: public interface, writing newsOh, right. As this online announcement reminds me, I’ll be in London, Ontario Thursday of next week to do a reading at Fanshawe College (which is doubtless a great place to hang out even if its name is a bit more reminiscent of my ex-mother’s than I would like). If you’re in the neighborhood, drop […]
Unclouded by Conscience, Remorse, or Delusions of Morality.
Category: ink on art, interviews, public interfaceAt least, that’s how Paul McEnery describes the “viscera of human relationships” presented throughout my novels in his intro to my interview in the latest issue of h+. The man treats me well: the interview itself is chopped way down from our original Q&A (which makes some of my answers seem a bit, well, jittery), […]
Sightings in the Wild
Category: interviews, public interfaceA couple of links to keep the pilot light going: SF Signal has posted another installment of their Mind Meld series, this time asking various skiffy writers about their literary influences (and about who they influence in turn). I’m in there, nestled amongst a dozen others. I’m also evidently featured in an upcoming piece on […]
A Romance to make Seth Brundle Weep
Category: biology, evolution, scienceHaven’t been posting the past few days. I really should have written something to commemorate Darwin’s 200th birthday, but how can you celebrate when the latest Gallup poll shows that over 60% of the US population is too blinkered, too misled, or too downright stupid to grasp the reality of natural selection? And I would […]
Ass-Covering Imitates Life
Category: biotech, riftersWay back when I was writing Maelstrom, a micobiologist ex-prof of mine asked about this βehemoth microbe I was inventing: how, he wondered, could it subvert the signal molecules on the cytoplasmic side of the vesicle so that the vesicles wouldn’t fuse with the lysosomes? This was not an issue I had previously considered. In […]