NY Times on Arthur C. Clark
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008This must be my fifteen minutes of fame. I'm quoted along with Charles Stross, Walter Jon Williams, and Ian McDonald. Nifty.
Archive for March, 2008
This must be my fifteen minutes of fame. I'm quoted along with Charles Stross, Walter Jon Williams, and Ian McDonald. Nifty.
Optimistic CO2 Sci-Fi
Monday, March 10th, 2008Here's my take on writing optimistic SF-- just don't make it consolatory pap. That's what advertising, TV and suburban sprawl are supposed to sell. As an example, here's the latest on the global warming front. (note: the link is changed to point directly to the Washington Post article as ...
Podcast of “The People of Sand and Slag”
Monday, March 10th, 2008When I was out at SF in SF, Rick Kleffel of the Agony Column recorded my reading of "The People of Sand and Slag." If you're one of those people who likes audio, I don't stumble too much as I read. :-) Rick also recorded our after-reading panel discussion where ...
Fantastic Reviews Interview and Review
Monday, March 10th, 2008Aaron Hughes over at Fantastic Reviews has a very long interview with me, which ranges over everything from my writing process, to free markets and externalities, to the idea of "boy" stories. It was a fun conversation. They also have a review of PUMP SIX which opens with, ...
Crystal Meth House: Coda
Friday, March 7th, 2008The wonderful folks from Crystal Meth House have moved away. Rumor has it that they were foreclosed on, that that they left the house in shambles (broken windows, destroyed lawn, etc).... and that they also apparently stripped it bare, to the extent of removing the furnace and the kitchen, cabinets ...
American Dream
Thursday, March 6th, 2008My wife and I have the option of moving into bigger, more spacious, more sunny, more land, and more pretty much of everything, house. The downside is that it's also more mortgage, more responsibility, and it exists two miles out of town... basically in that no-man's land called ex-urban sprawl. ...
Bitterness Abated
Thursday, March 6th, 2008The work on the book continues. I have not scrapped it. One of the things that has always troubled me with writing is the need to both be creative and also to differentiate between good and bad paths to follow. The eternal editor/creator conundrum. It's easy to ...
Dogged
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008In moments when my overweening ego is feeling buffed, I imagine that I'm a good writer. After today, what I really think is that I'm a dogged writer. If I polish the turd long enough, eventually something shines. It's really my specialty. Going after a story again and again until finally ...
A friend in Baltimore
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008I've got a friend who moved from our little podunk rural town of Paonia, to the big bad city of Baltimore. For a taste of his current life, he pointed me to this gem, The Baltimore Crime Blog. If anything, it seems that The Wire is one of those ...
Free Stories Posted
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008I've added some sample stories under the PUMP SIX header. In addition to "The Tamarisk Hunter" I've also added the Hugo and Nebula nominee "The People of Sand and Slag" and just for grins, I also posted the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist "The Fluted Girl." That should give people ...
