So begins this post from Janet, blogger, SF fan and former Regina resident,at The Walrus Said. My crime? Posting the prologue and first chapter of my SF novel Lost in Translation online where anyone can read it. Apparently the book is neither in the Ottawa library system nor in the local Chapters (which goes a …
Karen Hanock at Writing From the Edge does a nice roundup of the “good old days” when she, Kathy Tyers and myself exchanged and critiqued manuscripts regularly–and wrote long letters to each other (the kind you had to print on paper and put in a stamped envelope, too). It’s part of the August SF/F Blog …
Southwestern Saskatchewan, somewhere south of Glentworth, where I spent the weekend attending my niece’s outdoor wedding (just down the coulee from this old beaver pond). Hence no blogging for the last few days. More photos here.
…is that of award-winning Christian fantasy writer Karen Hancock. Karen and I have corresponded and critiqued each other’s stuff for years–not so much recently, because we’re both pretty well-published at this point, but very regularly when we were both starting out. I just discovered her blog because she linked to my post about unreal science …
If you haven’t seen them yet, you should. (Via The Speculist.)
A scientist in South Africa says dolphins are dimwits–their large brains are simply an adaptation to being a mammal who lives in cold water, and aren’t wired for advanced information processing at all.
You know that this means, don’t you? It means Regina Lyric Light Opera‘s production of Sweeney Todd was four or five years too early. Well, that’s what it means to me, Lyric’s publicity director, who faced the “Sweeney Todd? Never heard of it!” problem.
Photos of SF Canada members who attended Calgary’s ConVersion science fiction convention over the weekend, taken by me and my wife and naturally including a few of yours truly, are now online at the SF Canada site I maintain.
Back in Regina, that is, albeit it briefly since I’m away again this weekend for my niece’s wedding down Glentworth way. My science column posted last night will serve as my con report from ConVersion, I think, although I did want to add a link to this year’s Writers at the Improv story. In Writers …
My wife and I spent the weekend at ConVersion, Calgary’s annual science fiction convention. Featured this year were David Weber as Guest of Honor, Larry Niven as Special Guest of Honor, and R. Scott Bakker as Canadian Guest of Honor and Jeremy Bulloch, who played Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy, as Media …
Canadian science fiction and fantasy short story magazine Challenging Destiny recently conducted an interview with me via email for its Issue #23. You can now read the interview online.
…the photo of the day was lost. Alas, I packed everything in my camera bag except for the cable necessary to download photos from the camera to the computer. So no photos to share. And so light blogging continues. Though watch for reports from ConVersion starting tomorrow night!
