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. …
The pool was blessed relief even after just a couple of hours without water in her gills.Words since last update: 2,564Total words: 85,069Percentage complete (120,000/100,000): 70.9/85.1 A bit slow these last couple of days for a variety of reasons. I still have some hope of reaching an end of the first draft by the end …
I’m still awaiting the long-delayed arrival of my authors’ and promotional copies of Marseguro, so I haven’t started the book give-away I’m planning to run over the month of February. (One book a week! Details to follow!) I was amused (and pleased) to see that I’ve been beaten to the punch by Fantasy and Sci …
Today I received my author’s copies of Janis Joplin: Take Another Little Piece of My Heart, the biography I wrote for Enslow Publishers. Another book out–the first of five or six bearing my name that should appear this year. Here’s the back copy: Born in Port Arthur, Texas, Janis Joplin spent much of her adolescence …
Andy King had heard Richard’s order to forget the assault shuttle in Africa.Words since last update: 2,711Total words: 82,505Percentage complete (120,000/100,000): 68.8/82.5
Last week’s CBC Web column… *** The gala opening of the new Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon last week had Saskatchewan people thinking about live theatre. Of course, I think about live theatre all the time, since I’m often involved in one production or another as an actor or director, so this week I compiled a …
Download the audio version.Get my science column weekly as a podcast. When I was seven years old, I received a microscope for Christmas. It was my favorite gift ever, a window to a whole new world, especially when I turned it on pond water teeming with protozoa. Last week, scientists got their own belated Christmas …
…will not appear today, because I didn’t write a new sentence yesterday. However, I have a good reason, and I did work on the book. Here’s what’s happened. For the past, oh, 20,000 words or so I’ve known that I was approaching a point at which the events I have so far described in the …
Oh, brother: A prize-winning novelist has won a settlement of more than £100,000 after she claimed to have become so intoxicated by fumes from a nearby shoe factory that she was reduced to writing thrillers. I’m looking around my neighborhood, trying to find out what environmental factors have driven me to the sad state of …
“And then you’ll kill all the Selkies?” Emily said.Words yesterday: 1,958Total thus far: 79,794Percentage complete (120,000/100,000): 66.5/79.8
