In the latest issue of Dave Langford’s excellent ‘zine Ansible, Ursula K. Le Guin responds to this quote: “Michael Chabon has spent considerable energy trying to drag the decaying corpse of genre fiction out of the shallow grave where writers of serious literature abandoned it.”‘ Ruth Franklin (Slate, 8 May 2007)Her answer is lengthy and …
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Photos of the (Canada) Day: Regina Fireworks!
More photos here.
An appreciation of Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein was undoubtedly my favorite author at one time of my life (I devoured the Heinlein “juveniles,” liked some of his mid-career adult stuff, was left cold by Stranger in a Strange Land, and kept reading his later stuff mostly hoping that it would somehow enthrall me as the earlier stuff did, which …
Inflatable space module performing well
Bigelow Aerospace‘s Genesis II inflatable space module continues to perform well; the company has released the first high-resolution photos from orbit. I like their slogan: “Getting you excited about space again.” Not that I’ve never not been excited, personally. I was pleased to watch my six-year-old daughter enact a flight to the moon in the …
Anniversary of first musical recording
Wired regularly posts a “this day in technology” item. Today’s caught my eye: apparently, it was on this day in 1888 that the first known musical recording was made–Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt: Israel in Egypt, assigned the catalog number HWV 54, is an oratorio, a form in which Handel excelled. Like his more famous …
Amazing photo of the International Space Station…
…snapped by high school students from the ground.
Marseguro available for pre-order!
Well, well, look at this: my new novel from DAW Books, Marseguro, is listed on Amazon.com, which means you can pre-order it already, even though it’s not due out until February: Cool! Buy now and avoid the rush!
Decades of science fiction magazine cover art
Oh, this is yummy: a gallery of cover art from Astounding/Analog, going back to 1930 (that’s the cover from April, 1930, to the left). (Via SF Signal.)
John Scalzi interviews Robert J. Sawyer…
…and you can read it here.
Photo of the Week: The Widow Simone
Here I am in all my glory as the Widow Simone in Class Act Studio‘s upcoming production of the comic ballet La Fille mal Gardée: Perhaps I should ask that this be used as my photo on book covers from now on…?
Why I can’t really be called a Star Wars fan:
I don’t hate Star Wars enough.
My latest live walk and vlog
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