No, not Terra Insegura–I haven’t even done the revisions on that yet. I’m talking about my newest nonfiction book, Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw, published by Red Deer Press. I saw a bunch of them on sale in the Smith Books in the Cornwall Centre here in Regina today. I haven’t receieved any …
Just spotted a nice five-star Amazon review of Marseguro from a reader in New York who goes by the catchy handle of lb136: Marseguro, a colonized planet inhabited by normal humans and Selkies–genetically modified by a scientist named Victor Hansen–would seem defenseless when the theocratic earth government (The Body) sends (with Hansen’s grandson Richard as …
New Mexico was glad to see me, a native son, returning home a couple of weeks ago. How do I know? Because this is what greeted us shortly after we crossed the Colorado border:
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I write nonfiction (obviously), but I also write science fiction and fantasy. We who write such stuff are occasionally asked (and occasionally wonder) if our works can continue to compete in a media universe in which “science fiction” and “fantasy” conjure up for most people Hollywood special-effects extravaganzas first, and the written word second (if …
…has turned up at the Science Fiction Book Club, where reader Zachary Harvey calls it a “Great Book, Well Written, Well Worth Buying”: This is a very good book. The plot is logical and flows well, the author is descriptive but not too descriptive, and the story seems to take on a life of its …
Andrew Wheeler reacts grumpily to the Mind Meld at SF Signal that I’m part of this week (his title: King Canute Has a Posse), and has this to say about my small contribution: Edward Willet [sic–I really wish I had a dime for every time someone leaves the second “T” off my name] opines that …
SF Site has posted its latest Mind Meld, in which it asks various SF writers to weigh in with their answer to a particular question. I was one of those asked this time around; read my (and other’s) responses to the question “If You Could Change Any Aspect of The Science Fiction Field, What Would …
From Denver, site of last week’s column, I and my family headed south to the Land of Enchantment, a.k.a. New Mexico. It’s a state famous for many things: beautiful scenery (it greeted us with a vast vista of green plains, blue mountains, and a rainbow); the fact that I was born there (okay, maybe “famous” …
Long-term readers of this column will know that, every so often, I go off to science fiction conventions. I’ve done it again: I just finished attending the 66th Annual World Science Fiction Convention in Denver. It was, as WorldCons almost always have been for me, a wonderful experience…although that experience has changed over the years. …
And so the whole thing winds down. Yesterday was my favorite day in a lot of ways, although the most important factor there was only peripherally connected to the convention: I spent two hours with my DAW editor, Sheila Gilbert, in the morning going over revisions for Terra Insegura. (“Does everyone get notes like these?” …
(OK, actually I’m posting this around midnight on Day 4, but pretend, OK?) Friday was a great day at the con, starting with a good panel on Canadian Science Fiction with Barb Galler-Smith (fiction editor of On Spec magazine, who has just sold a book to EDGE), Robert J. Sawyer, Jo Walton and Christian Sauvé. …
