The Brown Lands…

Category: misc

…Just outside Mordor. So. Where am I now? (Lars, if you’re out there, I rescued a box turtle in your honour the other day. To commemorate, I carved your name into his plastron.)

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Freebies

Category: writing news

So, the word is out on the subject of the revamped Starship Sofa. My reading of “Repeating the Past” is embedded near the end of their recent podcast; also, the press release reports that I’ll be doing a “monthly” science-“fact” podcast called Reality, ReMastered. I can confirm this, sort of, although the monthliness may be […]

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Ultima Thule, That’s Where.

Category: misc, writing news

It is May 2nd. The middle of Spring. Two days ago, where I am now, it was 27°C. This is the most sheltered side of my cabin: This is the approach to my cabin: I have no exact numbers for you, but I can tell you that wind speed is strong enough to make the […]

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Dateline: Lincoln, Nebraska

Category: writing news

Two items: US Customs officials continue to ably occupy the niche of gate-keeping trolls with tiny dicks and/or withered vaginas, who seem to think that people might actually want to stay in their miserable dick-ass country a day longer than absolutely necessary. Nature has accepted another story of mine for their ongoing “Futures” series. This […]

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Gone to Ground

Category: writing news

Packing now, to spend a month at a field research station in the so-called “Tornado Alley” of Nebraska — which is a nice coincidence, as those at last Thursday’s reading will attest to the presence of a strong tornadoey element in the opening of the new novel. But I’m mainly just heading out to do […]

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For Those Who Could Not Be With Us Last Night…

Category: public interface

First, I am pleased and proud to announce that the Toronto Public Library does not overtly censor its public-access Internet terminals. True, if you enter “doggie snuff porn” or “bukkake” into the library’s default search engine you get only a single hit — which, when clicked on, boots you into an endless log-in loop that […]

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Audio Art

Category: ink on art, writing news

Blindsight is coming out as an audiobook from Recorded Books; check out the cover art by Leonard Likas (© Recorded Books, LLC): Notice anything unusual for a Watts-type book? Notice anything unusual for a story set a half light-year from the nearest star, set in the dark and shadowy borderlands of interstellar space? Notice the […]

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One Down, One to Go

Category: public interface

The Toronto Public Library’s Big Honking Series On Speculative Fiction kicked off last night, as promised, with a panel discussion between Jim Gardiner, Karl Schroeder, and myself, with Mike Skeet proving more than up to the task as moderator. It was pretty well-attended, if I do say so myself. And it was fun. We kicked […]

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I Couldn’t have Said it Better Myself

Category: ass-hamsters

So I won’t try.

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Trudeau Was Wrong

Category: misc, rant

The universe is not unfolding as it should. It is merely unfolding as it always has. It was a nice dream while it lasted: a grass-roots campaign, launched and promoted by the scientific community, supported by Nobel Laureates, endorsed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, pimped on science blogs far and wide: […]

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