That would be Arthur Ransome, author of the Swallows and Amazons series, one of the greatest writers of children’s books ever, and a personal favorite of mine from a very young age (I saved up my allowance and ordered the entire 12-book series, one a month, all the way from Jonathan Cape in England, when …
An unlikely combination? You’d be surprised! (I was.) Via James Lileks:
Here’s the interview I conducted with Hayden Trenholm, nominated for this year’s Aurora Award for best short-form English-language fiction for his story "Like Water in the Desert," over in the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy group on Facebook: Let’s get things started with a little basic background. Tell us about yourself, your involvement with science …
I have a confession to make: although born in the United States, I’m lousy at that country’s national pastime. I hit not, neither do I catch. If I had a dollar for every fly ball I dropped as kid, I could buy…well, a baseball glove, probably, but what would be the point? So this week …
I’m currently interviewing Aurora Award nominee Hayden Trenholm on the discussion board of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Facebook group, and will be all week. You can follow along over there (if you’re on Facebook), or check back here: I’ll be posting the interview here as it develops.
That’s the name of a Canada Council-funded reading and discussion series starting up soon at the Toronto Public Library–and I’ll be one of the 26 featured authors. Here’s how my two events are described: Candas Jane Dorsey and Edward Willett Two of Canadian SF’s most fearless explorers of big ideas, Candas Jane Dorsey (A Paradigm …
To whit: Few in our contemporary culture spend as much time as the readers – and writers – of SF regularly considering the repercussions of technological and social change, or environmental transformation, or the ideological inflection in popular cultural products – no matter how frequently the press and politicians comment on such matters. Thank you …
I made the trek up to Saskatoon yesterday, killing two birds with one stone: I met with two of the girls I’m mentoring through the Saskatchewan Writers Guild’s Youth Mentorship Program, and then read from Marseguro at McNally Robinson bookstore. Both events were successful, although you have to wonder if it’s worth it when you’re …
Statement by the American Egg Board and Egg Nutrition Center on AJCN study on egg consumption Just one glimpse almost about made me keel over face down and snoring on the keyboard.
Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist just finished hosting a give-away of Marseguro, and announced the winner today: Cédric Billette, from Gatineau, Québec. Congratulations, and the book is in the mail (or will be very soon).
I’ve always had an interest in the myriad ways art and science intersect: not surprisingly, Leonardo da Vinci is a hero of mine. Few arts have been altered more by advances in science and technology than music, a point made by New Scientist’s Technology Blog recently when it listed five milestones in music technology (and …
I haven’t done this for a while, but here are the top search terms currently bringing people to my main site, with links to what these terms find you at edwardwillett.com. As you can see, our old friends the spider goats continue to be high on the list. time perceptionanimal emotionsgolf technologyanimal intelligenceplant communicationspider goatscobalt …
