Category: Books
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MidAmeriCon II, Day 3!
Saturday was a light-schedule day for me. I had a swim and a reasonably-priced breakfast at the Silver Spoon Diner across the street from my hotel, then went to the convention center to do a reading. I read two stories, "Parsifal (Prix Fixe)" which ran originally in F&SF, and "A Right Jolly Old . .…
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MidAmeriCon II, Day 2!
I got up early and had a swim in the hotel pool and a substantial breakfast (the breakfast menu at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown is an exact duplicate of the breakfast menu at the Boston Westin Waterfront hotel, which implies they both buy from the same food-supply company). Then off to the convention center…
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Spanning The Globe!
My master plan for global science fiction supremacy now enters Phase Two. Having put my first two novels into the hands of North American SF fans, through the efforts of my faithful minions at Tor Books, Amazon, and bookstores everywhere, I've taken the next step. This month you can now read my books in German and Japanese!…
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Awarding Kipling Points
I'm a huge fan of Rudyard Kipling and his works. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I think he's one of science fiction's unacknowledged founders. So, when one member of the Crack Team asked to go see the new live-action/computer-animated Disney film of The Jungle Book, I agreed — though not without some skepticism. While there have been…
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My Other Hat
I wear two hats, professionally. One of them is a propellor beanie, and is my Science Fiction Hat (if you win a Hugo award, you get to wear double propellors on your beanie). The other hat is my Game Design Hat (which probably looks like this). I wore my Science Fiction Hat when I wrote the…
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The Only Award That Matters
You all can squabble over Nebula nominations and Hugo award slates. Corsair just won the only science fiction award that really matters: The Atomic Rockets Seal of Approval! Gaze upon it in envy and despair.
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Empire of the Dragon Khan
That's actually a pretty good fantasy novel title . . . This weekend I will be an "attending professional" (kind of like a guest, only not as cool) at Dragon-Con in Atlanta. You can find me (if you can find anything in the massive crowd of Star Wars stormtroopers, anime catgirls, superheroes, and Klingons) at…
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Star of Blog and Podcast
There's a new podcast up at New Books in Science Fiction & Fantasy, with me in it. I was honored to find out that I was Rob Wolf's first repeat podcast interviewee (podcastee?). In this one we talk about Corsair, the Hieroglyph Project, and the chip on science fiction's shoulder.
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Scenes From a Book Tour
Two of the events from the late Tor Books Big Summer Author Tour and Giant Spider Jamboree are now available on video. Everyone who missed our live appearances can experience the wonder and glory of Elizabeth Bear, Me, Max Gladstone, and Brian Staveley. The first video is our appearance at Google NYC: The second…
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Showdown at Phoenix
SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! At the BIIIG Phoenix Books in Burlington Vermont! THE ULTIMATE DRAMA SHOWDOWN! The Tor Books Summer 2015 Author Tour ends with a four-way Literary Duel! THIS IS THE BIG ONE! Brian "Madman" Staveley, Max "Maximum Stone" Gladstone, Elizabeth "The Grizzly" Bear, and James "L." Cambias compete to out-drama each other in readings…
The Cambias Digression 