Perhaps the saddest, most telling indictment of our current political administration is that even after the drone strikes, the executive murders, the ongoing suppression of torture reports, the all-engulfing phagocytosis of the surveillance state— basically, a Human Rights record so abysmal that even Dubya might flush with shame— we Canadians can still look south of […]
Shapeshifter.
Category: rantMy most recently published story, a bit of neouromil that appears in Neil Clarke’s cyborg anthology Upgraded, contains the following passage: Monahan had inventoried Sabrie’s weak spots as if he’d been pulling the legs off a spider. … Not into performance rage, doesn’t waste any capital getting bent out of shape over random acts of […]
SFContario: The Schedulening.
Category: On the Road, public interfaceSo I’m at SFContario this weekend. Five panels, as follows: Reviews and Critiques – Saturday 11 AM – Courtyard Reviews, both bad and good, are a part of being a writer and can even be a positive part of the creative process. What are the right and wrong ways to deal with reviews and criticism? […]
Your Brain on Gore.
Category: evolution, neuro, sciliticsSome of you have seen this already. It’s a few days old, this revelation of yet another difference between liberals and conservatives. In addition to the usual polarities on abortion, gun control, climate change, evolution— you know the list— here comes another wedge issue some of you may not have been expecting: Animal mutilation. Turns […]
Terrorist Creep.
Category: rant, sciliticsAnyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. —John J. Miller We had a shooting up here in Canada the other day. Like most things Canadian it was a modest, self-effacing affair, nothing that even a couple of losers from Columbine would write home about: […]
Announcements, Appearances, and Add-ons
Category: ink on art, interviews, public interface, reviewsSome ominous developments in the politics of the Canadian Surveillance State recently. A postmortem on Echopraxia waiting in the wings, now that the dust has settled. But in the meantime a bunch of links have been piling up, little self-aggrandizing things that, in isolation, weren’t important enough to warrant their own blog posts (they might […]
Climbing Mount CanLit.
Category: writing news“An adolescent girl comes to terms with her burgeoning lesbianism on the windswept shores of Canada’s west coast while dealing with her emotionally distant father.” Thus goes my stock exemplar of that branch of fiction known as “CanLit”. Some of you may find it familiar; I’ve certainly recited it often enough. Others may find it […]
Psychotic Dreams and Strange Extremes
Category: neuro, Omniscience, sentience/cognitionWhere do you start with dreams? People say you’re asleep when you dream, but you’re not really; it’s just that the input you’re consciously processing is generated internally, instead of coming from outside. It’s a kind of consciousness that believes the most ridiculous things, though. Your best friend doesn’t look anything like your best friend […]
Data Dump
Category: art on ink, reviewsI put up a bunch of new stuff over the weekend: a mix of covers and fan art in the Miscellaneous and Blindopraxia galleries (Angus McIntyre’s digital Blindsight renders— to the right, at the bottom, and at the end of the “Fan Art” matrix— are especially nice), along with a couple of links to multimedia […]
Echopraxia Q&A
Category: Dumbspeech, public interfaceIt’s been barely a month since I did that AMA thing at reddit. Tomorrow I’m doing it again, only this time it’s an AMAE, which is pronounced exactly the same but stands for Ask Me About Echopraxia. People have had a chance to actually read that book since the last time I reddited; apparently some […]