Googling this morning I discovered that Marseguro is listed as a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club in the U.S. (though not yet in the Canadian version), due out in a hardcover book club edition in April. I presume it will eventually show up in the Canadian SFBC, but I don’t know for sure: …
I just emailed the finished manuscript of Terra Insegura, sequel to Marseguro, to Sheila Gilbert at DAW Books. Now I wait for her reaction and notes, after which I get to rewrite the whole thing one more time! And here, for those who have been following along at home, are the final stats for the …
Woo-hoo! Lois H. Gresh reviews Marseguro for Sci-Fi Weekly (the very high-profile news service of the Sci-Fi Channel in the U.S.) and gives it an A! Some excerpts: The settings are well drawn and creative… The characters possess substance, emotions and realistic motivations… Most important, the action and surprises keep coming… She concludes: Overall…the flaws …
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There’s a brief interview with me (focused on Marseguro) up at Sci-Fi Wire, the news service of the U.S.’s Sci-Fi Channel.
Download the audio version.Get my science column weekly as a podcast. Once upon a time, I took a vocational aptitude test in high school guidance class. By that time I already had a pretty good idea I wanted to be a writer–specifically, science fiction writer–and yet, writer did not show up very high on the …
Thus asks Ann Althouse: Why do museum curators post such nonsensical texts on the walls next to the artwork they want us to take seriously? It’s a question I’ve asked myself: here’s the arts column I wrote on this topic a few years ago. *** Visual art and the text that explains it are uneasy …
They’ve found some very odd craters on Mercury, some with dark halos, which they at least have a tentative explanation for, and one they cannot explain at all: Superficially, the bright patch resembles an expanse of ice glistening in the sun, but that’s not possible. The surface temperature of the crater at the time of …
Scientists may have finally figured out why there’s a “flu season,” why flu is so much more prevalent during the cold months: Dr. Zimmerberg and his colleagues found that at temperatures slightly above freezing, the virus’s lipid covering solidified into a gel. As temperatures approach 60 degrees Fahrenheit, the covering gradually thaws, eventually melting to …
I’ve been remiss! Here are links to my last month’s worth of posts over at Futurismic (which now, by the way, is once more publishing science fiction!): A touchless computer interface Scientists create dynamic holographic display Star Wars meets Lara Croft on stage in Fight Girl Battle World The search for life on Europa begins …
I signed Marseguro for 2 1/2 hours at Smith Books in the Cornwall Centre on Friday, for two hours at Book & Brier on Saturday, and for two hours at Chapters on Sunday. Sold quite a few books, had some nice chats with people (not all of whom bought my book, the usual excuse being …
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