Emily wasn’t kept guessing long: an hour after the pounding in the habitat ceased, she knew the killer drone had somehow managed to break through the doors and was on her trail. Current word count: 40,076New words this session: 506Percentage of novel completed: 40.0 A smallish number of words yesterday, what with getting ready to …
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Photo of the Day: Vancouver Wildlife
So here I am in scenic Vancouver (well, Richmond, technically) to attend VCon 31, a very fine science fiction convention being held here at the Executive Airport Plaza hotel. Just how scenic is it? Check out this photo of the local wildlife–some kind of giant crane–taken through my hotel window. These cranes must be nesting …
Nasty habit gets its own web site
“A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.” – Lazarus Long (Time Enough for Love, Robert A. Heinlein). Alas, there are a lot of people with this particular nasty habit.
Robot cars take on traffic
Remember the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Grand Challenge, in which robot cars raced across a 212-km desert course? Now the robots are moving into the city and taking on traffic.
Photo of the Day: Shadow
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The first sentence I wrote today…
The light was fading fast. Current word count: 39,570New words this session: 1,490Percentage of novel completed: 39.5
Don’t touch!
So here I am, getting ready to fly off to Vancouver to spend a few days in a hotel while attending the VCon science fiction convention to promote the paperback release this week of my science fiction novel Lost in Translation (was that a subtle enough plug?), and I read this: “A common cold can …
Paperback of Lost in Translation is out!
Today’s the big day! The paperback reprint of my science fiction novel Lost in Translation has been officially released by DAW Books, and should be available in stores and online at Amazon.com and other locations. You can read prologue and first chapter online. The cover art is by Steve Stone. Here’s the back blurb: Kathryn …
Photo of the Day: Autumn Conservatory
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Another (negative) take on the Sony eReader
As you know, I was underwhelmed by what I have seen of the new Sony eReader. So is Robert J. Sawyer, for reasons I agree with. Thus far, he prefers his PDA…as do I (well, actually I prefer my own PDA, but you know what I mean).
The first sentence I wrote today…
You would think, Chris Keating thought as he lay on the thinly padded bed that was the only furnishing of note in his cell in the Hansen’s Harbor Criminal Detention Center, that almost having my head blown off on the pier by an enraged Selkie would be enough to convince the Grand Deacon I’m on …
"Lines: Fading"
I’ve blogged before about the 19th-century writer Edward Willett (just one in a long line of Edward Willetts that have included pewterers, innkeepers, and other interesting people over the centuries). On a whim I did a book search on Google. None of his books turned up fully digitized, but I did find the poem at …
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