China! Cadbury! Melamine! MMMMMMM!
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008Cadbury is recalling chocolate made in their Beijing factory because it's laced with melamine. I used to eat that chocolate all the time when I lived in Beijing. Mmmm. Yummy.
Archive for September, 2008
Cadbury is recalling chocolate made in their Beijing factory because it's laced with melamine. I used to eat that chocolate all the time when I lived in Beijing. Mmmm. Yummy.
Should Fiction Writers Write About Politics?
Monday, September 29th, 2008I just posted some of my problems with the Sarah Palin vp pick and Aaron posed this interesting question: Serious question, Paolo: Do you think authors blogging about their views on the election can undercut their fiction? It is very difficult to experience the fiction of Orson Scott Card or ...
McCain plus Palin equals…
Monday, September 29th, 2008No. Just no. If her "story" had been real, fine. If she showed a quick intellect and a history of engagement with complexities outside the boundaries of Alaska, then fine. If she could string a sentence together, or had a healthy curiosity for the mechanisms of our ...
Stealing Solar
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Interesting window into how increasing demand affects behavior. Solar panels are now being stolen. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/technology/24solar.html In a really scarce energy society, I wonder how far you'd have to go to keep your solar panels for yourself?
I’ve sold a book!
Monday, September 22nd, 2008My agent tells me that I'm allowed to shout it from the rooftops. The book in question is SHIP BREAKER, a young adult novel about all of my favorite things: global warming, peak oil, genetic engineering, poverty and collapsed societies. You know, happy fun stuff. Fortunately, it's also ...
Bisphenol-A
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008Latest in the Bisphenol-A tussle. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26736202/ I have a feeling this will just keep going drip drip drip with the American Chemistry Council blustering about how all the studies are flawed and finally, in about ten years, everyone will say, yeah, we really should have banned this stuff a long ...
draft completed
Thursday, September 11th, 2008on the "big book," as my son calls it (for some reason he's not impressed with the short story collection). I expected more of a sense of triumph, considering that I've been working on this monster for... lessee... wow. The initial nugget for a story about a "windup girl" came ...
Orion Magazine reviews PUMP SIX
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008Gavin Grant in his review of PUMP SIX for Orion Magazine coins the term "Bacigalupian." As in a "grimly satisfying Bacigalupian take on the world." Full review is online here. Bacigalupian. Say that five times fast. Okay, now try it without the giggling.
