I received the page proofs and cover proofs for the paperback of Lost in Translation today. Woo-hoo! I’m extremely pleased with this cover by Steve Stone. It looks like a book I’d want to read. I hope readers who’ve never heard of me have the same reaction! Bonus: I didn’t know The Midwest Book Review …
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Photo of the Day: Host’s-Eye View
What I see, more or less, as I host Net.talk each week on Access Communications. More photos here.
I’ll stick to wine tastings, thanks
Performance artist Jess Dobkin is inviting people to “quench their curiosity” and taste samples of pasteurized human breast milk at her upcoming show in Toronto.
One more blurb for the Lost in Translation paperback…
…this time from Dave Duncan, author of umpteen SF and fantasy novels, including the popular The Seventh Sword series and the King’s Blades series; his latest book, just released, is Children of Chaos: “To call a Science Fiction tale ‘Old Fashioned’ is neither an insult nor an oxymoron. Willett has created an interstellar adventure story …
Counting electrons…
…one at a time. Wow.
Genetically modified grapes
Would you drink wine from genetically modified grapes? I would. They’re not talking about putting in genes from spider monkeys or some such; just speeding up the kind of genetic development that would otherwise take decades of work, trying to get genes for, say, disease resistance from one kind of grape to another without altering …
The complete plays of Shakespeare…
…now at your fingertips. Just what it says. Every word of every play, readily searchable, courtesy of Google Book Search.
Photo of the Day: Night Rain
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If you don’t know Bill Mauldin’s work from the Second World War…
…you owe it to yourself to check out this collection of cartoons. These are like old friends to me, because my Dad had a copy of Bill Mauldin’s book Up Front, where these cartoons were collected. It’s great to see them again. Hmmm. I wonder where the book went?
Putting it together…
…bit by bit. (An 800-year-old manuscript by a Jewish philosopher, that is.)
Sunburst Award shortlist for best Canadian SF announced
The shortlist for the 2006 Sunburst Award for the best Canadian “literature of the fantastic” includes: Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (Tor) Holly Phillips, In the Palace of Repose (Prime Books) Robert Charles Wilson, Spin (Tor) James Alan Gardner, Gravity Wells: Speculative Fiction Stories (HarperCollins Canada) Alison McLeod, The Wave Theory …
Photo of the Day: Alice Turns Five!
Five years ago today was opening night of The Play’s The Thing, the first play I ever directed for Regina Little Theatre. It was also opening day of the long-running hit Margaret Anne and I, collaborators on the project, decided to entitle “Alice Laura Mae Willett.” Happy birthday, sweetheart!
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