…is in today’s LeaderPost. It begins: The set of people who like both symphony orchestras and screaming guitars is generally thought of as small, but based on Guitar Heroes, Saturday’s Regina Symphony Orchestra Shumiatcher Pops concert featuring Jack Semple, it’s at least as large as the seating capacity of the Conexus Arts Centre. Semple often …
The first week of my month-long series of book giveaways to promote the release of my new science fiction novel Terra Insegura (have I mentioned I have a new novel out? I have? Well, what do you know!) has passed, and we have two winners! Michael Carter, who lives in British Columbia, has won the …
Over the weekend SF Canada, Canada’s national association of speculative fiction professionals, as it says on our website, held its AGM (in virtual format using forum software, as befits a science fictiony organization), and rather foolishly elected me president. I’m doing my best not to let my new-found power go to my head, but it …
My posting at Futurismic continues to be sporadic, but I do manage a few, and it does tend to be where I put the science-related stuff (except for my column) I used to post here. Here’s a round-up of my most recent Futurismic stuff: Do newspapers have a future? Is Twitter a threat to morality …
That’s Don D’Ammassa’s take on Terra Insegura, which while not the unadulterated rave that is all any author wants to see in every review, isn’t so bad coming from someone who was pretty lukewarm toward Marseguro. D’Ammassa also thinks my characters are too tense, to which I guess I’d say, hey, they’ve got plenty to …
This proposed underwater robot with a sense of touch looks scarily like what I imagined the Selkie-tracking “killerbots” of Marseguro to be. Mine had tentacles rather than articulated arms, but still: Oh, and for comparison’s sake, here’s how cover artist Steve Stone pictured the killerbot:
…which features guitarist Jack Semple, is up at the Regina LeaderPost. It begins: Most electric guitar players don’t get much opportunity — if any — to play with a symphony orchestra. Most electric guitar players aren’t Jack Semple, who’s headlining the Regina Symphony Orchestra’s final Shumiatcher Pops concert of the year, Guitar Heroes, on Saturday …
I’ve posted the wonderful Stephan Martiniere cover art of Terra Insegura several times on my blog (and of course it’s plastered all over my website as a whole), but today I finally got my author’s copies of the actual book. It’s always a thrill to see the actual published book, and I’m pleased to see …
[podcast]http://edwardwillett.com/wp-content/upLoads//2009/05/blue-brain.mp3[/podcast] Ah, the human brain. Seat of consciousness, miracle of creation or evolution (discuss amongst yourselves), able to jump to tall conclusions in a single bound, so incredibly complex that we’ll never be able to understand how it works. Um, not so fast. A year and a half ago, scientists at the Blue Brain Project …
John Scalzi is one of the most popular SF bloggers on the Web, as well, of course, one of the most popular SF writers around. He’s also a tireless promoter of science fiction: not just his own, but everyone else’s. For several years he’s been running The Big Idea, a series of essays in which …
It’s Terra Insegura launch day. Please don’t get trampled in the mad rush by thousands of screaming fans into bookstores in search of a copy. Oh, wait. I’m confusing myself with Stephanie Meyer again.
Tomorrow’s the big day when Terra Insegura officially hits bookstore shelves, and so, with great fanfare, I announce the Great Terra Insegura Book Give-Away Contest, twin to the very successful Marseguro give-away I ran when that book came out–except with one great exception: this time, I’m giving books to two people every week for the next month. Here’s how it …
