I was feeling a bit disappointed in my best picture of the lunar eclipse tonight (this is about halfway to totality) until I saw John Scalzi’s photo. Now I’m thinking I did all right in the absence of a tripod and with a six-year-old girl tugging on my elbow and begging me to go back …
…for this search: is science fiction books good for people results Which is weird, but strangely gratifying.
…is back! I’m plugging away hard at Terra Insegura now. I can see the end, off in the middle distance, and hope to reach it this week, do a complete rewrite next (!), and submit it by the beginning of March. Well, that’s my hope. Right now it looks like it’ll probably come out at …
Download the audio version.Get my science column weekly as a podcast. We can and do recycle all sorts of things. Paper, plastic, glass (OK, that last one not so much right now), Christmas fruitcakes…the list goes on and on. Wouldn’t it be great if we could also recycle the hydrocarbons we burn as fuel? Imagine …
And the winner of a signed copy of Marseguro for the second week of February is (drum roll, please): Ken Neth That’s two Kens in a row. Last week’s winner was Ken McConnell. This does not mean you must be named Ken to win. Jut a reminder, if you’ve already entered, you don’t need to …
I’m in Swift Current for a reading at the public library’s “Literary Cafe” this evening. As usual, the first thing I did in my hotel room was plug in my laptop, and was pleasantly surprised to find that since I left Regina three hours ago Ian Randal Strock has posted a very nice review of …
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Hey, aren’t you supposed to be finishing up the sequel to Marseguro? How come I haven’t seen a ‘first line I wrote today’ update for a while?” The reason, dear reader, is simple: I have been fleeing a deadline for ages, but it finally caught up to me, …
I’ve got several book readings and signings scheduled over the next little while to promote Marseguro. If you’re in the vicinity to one, please stop by! Friday, February 15, reading at the Swift Current Public Library, 7:30 p.m. There’s also going to be live music! Friday, February 29, signing at Cole’s in the Cornwall Centre, …
…with my name on them. Fresh from Rosen Publishing comes Incredibly Disgusting Drugs: Speed, by yours truly.
…at New Zealand’s Barbara’s Books: Edward Willett is a clever, interesting writer, not afraid to create new species, and fascinating worlds. [Marseguro] has normal, and not-normal humans fleeing to a distant world. Trouble follows them.Cool!
Download the audio version.Get my science column weekly as a podcast. The house in which I live was built in 1926. Over the years, as we discovered recently when we had the walls of a couple of rooms repainted, several layers of wallpaper and paint have accumulated. Peeling back those layers is a bit like …
A nice reader’s review of Marseguro showed up on Amazon today: Excellent world-building and well developed characters. Very enjoyable. If you are interested in the religious implications of genetic manipulation, the political problems with a theocracy, or the question of what you would do when faced with extinction, read this book. – William Howe He …
