[podcast]http://edwardwillett.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/sensitive-musicians.mp3[/podcast] Musicians have a reputation for being sensitive types, finely tuned to the emotions of those around them. In fact, it’s become a bit of a cliché in movies (with the possible exception of the many late drummers of Spinal Tap). Normally, after a beginning like that, I’d go on to write that science has …
Here are links to what I’ve posted over at Futurismic in the last month or so: Never mind Darwin: hockey players as religious icons Chessmen that debate every move You are reading Futurismic. You find a post about how you imagine the events described in narratives… A new use for social networking technology: examining patents …
I just sent off sample chapters for my latest YA proposal, for a science fiction novel with a hint of steampunkishness to it, to my agent. The working title is The City Must Die!, and I’m quite excited about it. Now if only a publisher can be found who shares my excitement… Just for fun, …
…is in today’s LeaderPost. It begins: The premise of Mesa, which opens at Globe Theatre on March 18, sounds like the setup to a joke: “So this 30-something guy and his 93-year-old grandfather set out on a road trip together to Mesa, Ariz. …” And sure enough, Mesa is a comedy — but not, says …
[podcast]http://edwardwillett.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/canx-2.mp3[/podcast] Space satellites, typically, are big, expensive beasts, which is one reason we all cringe when one fails to achieve orbit, as happened on February 24 with NASA’s $280 million Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO). Complex satellites like the OCO, which was intended to monitor atmospheric carbon dioxide, are of course absolutely necessary for some tasks. …
You Don’t Scare Me, a supernatural thriller by John Farris, was one of the free books I picked up at this year’s World Fantasy Convention in Calgary, and I had high hopes for it. After all, the cover blurb calls Farris is “A legend among thriller novelists,” and that’s according to Dean Koontz, who is …
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m on the Board, and among the pool of singers, for the Canadian Chamber Choir, a fabulous national choir made up of auditioned singers from across the country. I’ve sung on two projects, one in Ontario and last fall one right here in Saskatchewan, and I can’t praise the choir and …
Tower in the Crooked Wood is a young adult fantasy novel by Paula Johanson, published by Bundoran Press. I’ve known Paula for a long time through SF Canada, and was pleased to have the opportunity to read her new book…and pleased that Bundoran Press, a very new publisher, is including young adult work in its …
Roughly two decades of writing a science column that appeared in print in Regina came to an end today when I received a letter from the Regina LeaderPost that said: It is with regret that I inform you today that effective March 11, 2009, we will no longer be in a position to publish your Science …
[podcast]http://edwardwillett.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/doodling.mp3[/podcast] Hi! My name is Ed, and I am a doodler. I have doodled my way through countless classes, mounds of monotonous meetings, scads of sonorous sermons. My teachers and others have looked at me askance over the years. But no more! I, and all who doodle with me, have at last been vindicated by …
Actually, I finished this a couple of weeks ago–I’ve just been slow blogging about. Maybe because I don’t have much to say. If you liked the previous Septimus Heap books by Angie Sage, I’m sure you’ll like this one. If you haven’t read them, there’s not much point in reading this one. I’ve enjoyed them …
…is in today’s Regina LeaderPost. The story begins: Until late last year, Madison Kerth was just another fifth-grader at Tchefuncte Middle School in Mandeville, La., just north of New Orleans across Lake Pontchartrain. But, about the time she turned 11 last October, she left her school to begin living what she describes as “a dream …
