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For those of you who didn’t already see this over on Facebook, or who haven’t noticed it on the inconspicuous little “Upcoming Appearances” list to the right: Freeze-Frame Revolution<\/em> is getting an official launch at Toronto’s premiere SF bookstore, Bakka-Phoenix<\/a>. The announcement on the BP site sets the launch to both June 6 and June 23rd. I’m assuming that first date is a typo (at least, if it isn’t, I’ve missed my own novella-launch so never mind). In either case the time is 3pm.<\/p>\n

I will be there, as will various snacks and nonalcoholic beverages.\u00a0 As will Ben Eldridge, the dude responsible for last year’s Space Vampires symposium<\/a> at U of T, who has once again flown all the way from Australia to introduce me and possibly interview me and hopefully help me find a short excerpt to read which 1) I haven’t posted here,\u00a0 and which 2) doesn’t give away too much of the plot. The man is insane. With a hundred more like him I could probably topple the US government.<\/p>\n

Anyway: 84 Harbord Street, Toronto. 3pm. Bring your friends. Bribe your enemies. I’m always worried no one’s gonna show up at these things.<\/p>\n

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In related news, I’m doing a few interviews concurrent with this new release. A Q&A with Paul Semel recently went live over here<\/a>: Paul appears to be an unusually perceptive and intelligent dude, as evidenced by his opening observation that I am a warm and caring person. I’ll be prepping for a Skype interview with Wired pretty much the moment I finish uploading this post. And just this morning I got the first of an ongoing series of questions from Erwann Perchoc over in France, for an interview in BiFrost<\/em><\/a> so extensive and personal that it will apparently take months to conduct:<\/p>\n

“When one reads your stories and novels, one might picture you as a misanthropic and aloof person. Having the pleasure to met you\u2014though briefly\u2014at Utopiales a few years back, I saw that it was only an impression. So, before delving into your works, I’d like to ask you a few questions about you in order to dispel this impression\u2026<\/p>\n

How was your childhood?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m thinking maybe the set-up was ironic. Either that or “dispel” doesn’t mean what he thinks it means\u2026<\/p>\n

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Finally: a question for my Russian readers.\u00a0 Does anyone know what this Starfish<\/em> cover hails from?<\/p>\n

\"\u00a0\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Is it a legit edition? Is it bootleg? I’m only familiar with cover art for one Russian Starfish<\/em> and it’s, well, this:<\/p>\n

\"russian-starfish\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I have to admit the first illo is somewhat more evocative of the actual novel. I just don’t know if it’s real (although it definitely should be).<\/p>\n

Anyone?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of you who didn’t already see this over on Facebook, or who haven’t noticed it on the inconspicuous little “Upcoming Appearances” list to the right: Freeze-Frame Revolution is getting an official launch at Toronto’s premiere SF bookstore, Bakka-Phoenix. The announcement on the BP site sets the launch to both June 6 and June […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,43,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-on-ink","category-interviews","category-public-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8127"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8136,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions\/8136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}