Part 1 is here; Part 2 is here; Part 3 is here. The interviewer is Dr. Robert Runte. The Facebook version is here. RR: So the next obvious question is how do you ensure “characters who are as much like real people as you can?” Are they based on people you know? (and do they …
This week’s (and the second-last–it’s wrapping up at the end of this month) CBC Web column… *** “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,” author L.P. Hartley famously wrote to begin his 1953 novel The Go-Between. And like most foreign countries, while we might not want to live there, we often …
You’re I, Robot!by Isaac Asimov While you have established a code of conduct for many generations to follow, your demeanor is rather cold and calculating. Brought up to serve humans, you have promised never to harm them, to follow orders, and to protect yourself. Living up to this code has proved challenging and sometimes even …
A few days ago I discovered that Jeff VanderMeer (yes, the two-time World Fantasy Award winner: that Jeff VanderMeer) was running an interesting survey on his blog, Ecstatic Days, in which he had posted several examples of book cover art and then asked his readers several questions about, such as what kind of book they …
Part 1 is here; Part 2 is here. The interviewer is Dr. Robert Runte. The Facebook version is here.RR: I’m always interested in a writer’s process. Some writers write by just sitting down at the keyboard and letting things develop as they may; at the other end of the continuum are those that don’t set …
…but here’s the cover of another book I contributed to (I wrote a chapter on Regina’s Communities of Tomorrow partnership), which just arrived yesterday.
Part 1 is here. The interviewer is Dr. Robert Runte. The Facebook version is here. RR: Oh, let us say rather that you are the embodiment of the modern day renaissance man! One of the things I liked about Marseguro was the complexity of the main, and even a few of the secondary, characters. (This …
This week I’m being interviewed on Facebook on the discussion board of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy group. If you’re on Facebook, you can see the interview here. For those who aren’t, though, I’m going to post it here as it goes along. My interviewer is Dr. Robert Runte. RR: Okay, let’s get this …
Tomorrow’s the big day when Marseguro officially hits bookstore shelves, and today was the big day when my author’s and promotional copies finally arrived from Penguin Canada. (Yay!) And so, with great fanfare, I announce the Great Marseguro Book Give-Away Contest! Here’s how it’s going to work. I’m going to give away one signed copy …
Download the audio version.Get my science column weekly as a podcast. I’m a sensitive kinda guy. I fact, I’m so sensitive I sometimes tear up just during the process of making dinner. It’s not that I’m overcome with emotion at the blessing of having at my disposal the wherewithal to stir-fry. (I’m not that sensitive.) …
…from (rather to my surprise) the Times Literary Supplement. A couple of excerpts: Writers continue to be drawn to the genre because it allows them to find subtle ways of exploring cultural anxiety and desire. As we leave the frosty air of the Cold War behind, innovative modes of science fiction reflect on the nature …
Here are my most recent posts over on Futurismic (there’d be more of them, but there were technical difficulties over there for a while): A stage version of The Time Machine New microscope has resolution less than the diameter of a hydrogen atom Two miles high, one mile wide, and housing a million people H.G. …
