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- Dr. Lejla Kucukalic<\/a>, from Columbia, apparently plans to mention me in the upcoming June 7 installment of Columbia’s “Caf\u00e9 Arts<\/a>” series (scroll down a bit, to “Adventures in Science Fiction Today” \u2014 right after “Refiguring Atheism”, which sadly has already passed). Apparently I’m one of the geek brigade who “describe[s] human progress and potential failures in the developing fields of genetic engineering, information and environmental science, and space programs”. Don’t know if any of you hail from New York, but there it is. Wouldn’t mind hearing back from anyone who might attend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Backing slowly away from Academia, we have a free-wheeling informal interview with my old internet buddy Tony Smith, the driving force behind the Hugo-nominated podcast “Starship Sofa<\/a>“. He’s got an hour-long all-Squidgate extravaganza on the latest issue of Sofanauts<\/a>, during which I rambled and meandered and finally opined that he might want to spare his listeners by editing out certain parts of the conversation. Including the part where I suggested that he edit stuff out. The fact that you can hear that exchange in the podcast tells you what Tony thought of my suggestion. Still, I tried, so don’t come whining to me. I<\/em> know I need an editor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Finally, the Hebrew translation of Blindsight<\/em> has apparently been nominated<\/a> for something called a Geffen Award<\/em>, presented by the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy<\/a>. (I’ve received no official notification or anything; I just stumbled across the news while egosurfing.) It’s nominated under the category “Best Translated Science Fiction Novel”, which means it has no hope of winning because other books on the list include classics by Dan Simmons and Poul Anderson, not to mention a short story collection from Isaac Asimov.\u00a0 I think I’m gonna publish my next book under the pen name Susan Lucci\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Oh, and while I’m at it I’m gonna be at a couple of upcoming cons. Polaris and Contarian<\/span> SFContario here in TO, Nantes in France in November, and it’s looking like I’ll even be at Worldcon in Melbourne come September. I haven’t really been announcing these things. Maybe I should stick a list of appearances over on the sidebar or something\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Finally, the Hebrew translation of Blindsight<\/em> has apparently been nominated<\/a> for something called a Geffen Award<\/em>, presented by the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy<\/a>. (I’ve received no official notification or anything; I just stumbled across the news while egosurfing.) It’s nominated under the category “Best Translated Science Fiction Novel”, which means it has no hope of winning because other books on the list include classics by Dan Simmons and Poul Anderson, not to mention a short story collection from Isaac Asimov.\u00a0 I think I’m gonna publish my next book under the pen name Susan Lucci\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Backing slowly away from Academia, we have a free-wheeling informal interview with my old internet buddy Tony Smith, the driving force behind the Hugo-nominated podcast “Starship Sofa<\/a>“. He’s got an hour-long all-Squidgate extravaganza on the latest issue of Sofanauts<\/a>, during which I rambled and meandered and finally opined that he might want to spare his listeners by editing out certain parts of the conversation. Including the part where I suggested that he edit stuff out. The fact that you can hear that exchange in the podcast tells you what Tony thought of my suggestion. Still, I tried, so don’t come whining to me. I<\/em> know I need an editor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n