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The New Superstar of the Science Fiction

Which is what Google’s translation software makes of der neue Superstar der Science Fiction, which is evidently what I am according to the Random House/Bertelsmann web page heralding the German edition of ButtPflug — er, Blindflug — which translates as “Blind Flight“, but that’s fine because the literal translation of “Blind Sight”— Blinder Anblick — […]

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A Motley Mosaic of Miscellaneous Minutiae

Sorry for the recent radio silence; been a lot going on lately, events to plan, agents to approach, interviewers to charm (not easy when you’re me), awards to lose (somewhat easier). Also, I was hoping to get back to some cool science postings, since a lot of cutting-edge stuff has been coming down the pike […]

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Three Times the Scabbery

Today’s edition of the Vancouver Province carries a piece by Peter Darbyshire on online fiction giveaways, focusing on three of us Creative Commoners: Cory Doctorow, David Wellington, and me. The layout in the dead tree edition is quite pleasing to the eye, showing one of Blindsight‘s alternate covers without comment (I love it when that […]

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Not the Orange Juice. The Award.

One of these objects does not belong with the others. Guess which one. “a complex drama of faith, love, church politics, and art, set in 17th- and 18th-century Cremona” “A delicate, haunting story-within-a-story told by a girl who must choose between her bright, beloved town and the dark forest beyond it” “A mortally injured child […]

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Not the Soup. The Award. Not that Award; the Other Award.

Okay, I got this via Scalzi’s blog, which linked in turn to this official-looking site, so I guess it’s on the level even though I’ve received no official notification. But it looks like Blindsight made the finals for the John W. Campbell Award. It’s in there with the usual worthy suspects from the Hugos and […]

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Off-Key Speaker

So there’s this annual thing up at York University: the Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (although for some reason their web site seems to stop at 2005). A few months back I gave a guest lecture up at York, which was evidently a big hit on account of most academic speakers tend […]

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Starfish tp ETA?

I know this is a long shot, but I don’t suppose anyone out there knows when the trade paper edition of Starfish is due for release? A search on Tor’s website turns up nothing. Yes, I’ve asked them directly. Repeatedly. I actually brought it up twice in my last e-mail, which netted the response Yes, […]

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"ßehemoth" set free

For the last couple of years I’ve been subjected to chronic whelming demand for a Creative Commons release of the final rifters novel. I am relieved to announce that “ßehemoth” went live as of 2a.m. this morning, over on the Backlist page. (The first bug fixes were up by around 11, so if you downloaded […]

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