Three friends, three books

As I’m getting my act together for the hundredth time, I think I should take a moment and note that three writer friends of mine local to the Columbus area have recently put out books that some of my readers might be interested in. Only one, Gregg Macklin’s, fits somewhere into the SF milieu, but […]

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Kazuo Ishiguro

Often, while I go about the routine portion of my days at home, I like to listen to podcasts. I have quite eclectic tastes in this area, but in general I focus on stories and people–stories in the vein of documentaries or personal narratives, stories the likes of historical studies or discussions of scientific breakthroughs […]

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Nearly a dozen bits on “art”

Yesterday I ran over to John Scalzi’s site and read through a collection of posts he noted as his “Best of the Year.” If you’re one of the six people in the world who doesn’t read his site, you should wander over there. It’s good stuff. Afterward, I scanned through my own posts this year. […]

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Graham Joyce

Graham Joyce was a writer. His stories were generally of the fantastic nature, though I admit I don’t think I’ve read anything by him other than the post that I’m going to link to in a few moments. That is almost certainly going to change soon, however. He passed away very recently after having been […]

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Jay Lake

Technically, I could say that Episode 8 is now complete. But I don’t do technically. What this means is that the story is complete, but the last two chapters are still heavily done in pseudo-code. So, yeah. Episode 8 remains standing. I wanted to be done, but, hey, it is what it is. Tomorrow. Hopefully. […]

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Linda Nagata’s “Codename: Delphi”

I had a long car ride earlier this week, and used part of it to listen to Linda Nagata’s short story Codename:Delphi. It’s military science fiction, that (if you squint a little) really may not be science fiction at all. I’m thinking about this story right now because I recently was reading a really strange […]

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J.C. Andrijeski’s Rook

So, yeah, one of the great things about our week off (back so long ago, now), was that I had some time to actually read. I got through a couple novels, and a couple novellas in that short span. I wanted to talk a little about one of the novels here, because if you have […]

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Nominating Singer

Now that the reading sprint is over, I’m coming up for air. It’s with no little pride that among the first things I’ve done is to wander over to the DetCon1 site and nominate my little girl’s debut novel, Singer for their Young Adult or Middle Grade Member’s Choice award. Some folks might say I’m […]

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Lisa Silverthorne, in audio!

Cool news for a friend of mine. Check out Fiction River’s podcast of Lisa Silverthorne’s story “Speechless in Seattle.” You can, of course, buy the whole anthology at several places … but here’s the Link that will reveal all. In addition to begin a friend and a great all-around person, Lisa is one of my […]

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