It’s not exactly earth-shattering, but I was still tickled today to discover (thanks to an automated Google ego-search) that my main website, edwardwillett.com, is ranked sixth by Alexa in Arts>Literature>World Literature>Canadian>Authors. I’m just behind playwright Norm Foster (whom I got to see performing in one of his own plays in Kincardine, Ontario, the summer before …
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Hasenpfeffer immortalized in song
You might think it’s hard to work Hasenpfeffer into a song lyric (except, of course, for the theme song to Laverne and Shirley), but John Anealio at Sci-Fi Songs has managed it, as one line in a tribute song about the recent The SF/F/H Book Reviewers Linkup Meme started by John Ottinger at Grasping for …
A new review of Lost in Translation…
…has popped up at the blog Bibliophagic. Brazilian blogger Adiel Mittman gives it four stars out of five (and says it reminded him of Asimov’s Foundation series!) but he does have some thoughtful caveats. A few highlights: This book is a good read. The author’s idea of translators is an interesting one…If translating between human …
My latest posts on Futurismic, from robot milkmaids to unversal ‘flu vaccines
After a bit of a hiatus, I’ve been posting fairly regularly over on Futurismic recently (which is why there are fewer science posts on here than there used to be). Here are my recent Futurismic posts to check out if you’re interested: “I, for one, welcome our new robot milkmaids…” “Sex, fish, extinction and the …
An new interview avec moi
Shaun Duke has just posted a lengthy online interview with me over at his blog, The World in the Satin Bag. Check it out! It includes comments on religion, Marseguro, the upcoming Terra Insegura, and the differences between Canadian and American science fiction, among other things.
Just because I haven’t done it before…
…here’s my name via Erik Kastner’s “Spell with flickr” app: Pretty cool! And to think kidnappers used to have to do this by cutting letters out of magazines.
"Critical Times for Critical Thinking"
Here’s a rather depressing essay that ties in with my post about high school debate ruining my blogging career. As Elizabeth Scalia asks: “How can significant issues be tackled when a culture of cynicism and relativism has destroyed appreciation for the truth?”
"Critical Times for Critical Thinking"
Here’s a rather depressing essay that ties in with my post about high school debate ruining my blogging career. As Elizabeth Scalia asks: “How can significant issues be tackled when a culture of cynicism and relativism has destroyed appreciation for the truth?”
How high school debate ruined my blogging career
Occasionally I’m tempted to make some strong political statement on this blog, but I usually avoid it for one simple reason: I was a high school debater, and a pretty good, one, too. (I placed high enough in the Open category in provincials my Grade 12 year to advance to nationals, except that provincials were …
The fifth sentence of page 123 meme
This one has been around for awhile, and this is the second time I’ve been tagged (the first time The Walrus Said tagged me, but I was too busy to get around to it), so what the heck. Ken McConnell did the tagging this time. Here’s how it works: you take the closest book at …
Nice blog review of Marseguro…
…from Ken McConnell. Here’s a bit: Well developed characters with clear motives prevailed in the story and once the plot got going, it rolled right along at a nice clip right to the end.Ken was one of the winners of a copy of Marseguro from my give-away when the book first came out, so I’m …
Another round up of my Futurismic posts…
…from roughly the last three weeks: One wandering planet can ruin your whole day Universal translator a possibility? Uncrashable cars…and one that definitely isn’t Sailing, sailing, over the bounding interplanetary main Moving beyond turning food into fuel Microsoft creates an algorithmic accompanist NASA tests giant robot that could pick up and move a Moon base …