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\"Rorschach15-01\"<\/a><\/i>I put up a bunch of new stuff over the weekend: a mix of covers and fan art in the Miscellaneous<\/a> and Blindopraxia<\/a> galleries (Angus McIntyre’s digital Blindsight<\/i> renders\u2014 to the right, at the bottom, and at the end of the “Fan Art” matrix\u2014 are especially nice), along with a couple of links to multimedia installations based on “The Things” (check the Miscellaneous Gallery<\/a> under “The Things” or the Backlist page<\/a> under “Multimedia). The A\/V remix<\/a> of Kate Baker’s performance over on Youtube has been up since 2012, and was made completely independent of me; but Jes\u00fas Olmo sent me his digital coffee-table book even earlier (2010, was it?). I’ve been sitting on it all this time, saving it for the unveiling of the new website.<\/p>\n

Anyway, check the Updates<\/a> page for details.<\/p>\n

\"BeyondtheRiftEchinoidCover\"<\/a>Also over the weekend, Locus<\/i> posted another review<\/a> of Echopraxia<\/i>, this time by Gary K. Wolfe. Locus <\/i>does that sometimes\u2014 posts multiple reviews of the same book\u2014 and like his August counterpart<\/a> Paul Di Filippo, Wolfe invokes the works of other authors when he looks at mine: “Kress\u2019s scientific rhetoric is in support of her plot, Watts\u2019s is in dialogue with his plot, and Rajaniemi\u2019s is the backdrop of his plot.” (I’ve really got to check out this Rajaniemi guy.)\u00a0 Wolfe isn’t quite so enamored of my infodumps as Di Filippo was\u2014 “Watts makes sure we understand the biology and neurology behind both vampirism and zombieism, whether we want to or not”\u2014 which, well, fair enough. And he adds his voice (in the nicest possible way) to the growing Pessimism Chorus that seems to go on tour whenever I have a new book out.<\/p>\n

“[Watts’] famously dismal brilliance \u2026 stuns you with its barrage of smart ideas and cutting-edge research, then disarms you with its grim determinism and unsympathetic, semi-posthuman characters, and ends up, pretty much, by just making you want to crawl under a rock. This is not a novel that wants to invite anyone in for tea.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He does, though, there at the end. Compares Echopraxia<\/i> to both Childhood’s End<\/i> and I am Legend<\/i>, calls it “undeniably powerful” and “surprisingly humane.” You can almost hear the good china tinking against the stirring spoons.<\/p>\n

I’ll take that, and gladly.<\/p>\n

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That’s Bowie in the middle, right? That’s not my imagination?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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