Category: Books
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Double-Barrelled Short Fiction!
It has been quite a while since I've published any short fiction, but now I have two stories coming out back to back. In September the valiant War Stories anthology from Apex Books hits the beaches, and my story "Contractual Obligation" will be in the first wave. The operation is led by tactical masterminds Jaym…
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A Darkling Alumni Magazine
The University of Chicago magazine Web site has the transcript of an interview with me about A Darkling Sea. Enjoy!
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No Royal Road
On May 19 the staff of the Tilton Library in Deerfield were kind enough to host me for a reading and brief lecture about my novel A Darkling Sea and my forthcoming book Corsair. If you were at the library, you can probably skip the rest of this 'blog post, but if you're among the…
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My Northwest Passage
Inhabitants of the upper-left part of the United States (the place where the return address goes) can see me in person, hear me read from A Darkling Sea, and get some books signed next week. There are two stops on this mini-tour: Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, in Beaverton, Oregon, on May 13 at 7…
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On the Verge of Great Events
Most of us remember history as a series of Big Events: wars, revolutions, inventions, disasters, and so forth. (Historians in recent decades have done an immense amount of really amazing work studying day-to-day life in the past, but nobody seems to pay much attention to them aside from other historians.) The trouble with Big Events…
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A Video Review and an Interview
Here's a nifty video review of Darkling Sea, courtesy of SFReviews.net. And if watching videos isn't what you want to do today, here's a print interview at Space Review.
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Congratulations, Brian!
Now that he's made the announcement on his own 'blog, I guess the secret's out: The Emperor's Blades is coming to HBO! Congratulations to Brian Staveley — you're in the big leagues now, Brian! Gonna have to get yourself a beard and one of those Greek fisherman hats! Watch the interview with Brian here.
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The Show Goes On!
The Book Event at Towne Book Center in Collegeville, Pennsylvania is set for this Saturday, April 5, at 3 p.m. Originally scheduled for early February, this Event had to get moved because of heavy snow. But now that the weather has improved from Utterly Horrid to Merely Unpleasant, the Event is back on! Come see…
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An Event And An Interview
On Sunday, March 30, I'll join Brian Staveley and Ramona Wheeler for another joint Book Event at Flights of Fantasy Books and Games in Albany, New York. It all happens at 2 p.m. and everyone is welcome. If you haven't read enough interviews with me about A Darkling Sea, be sure to check out Andrew…
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Lunacon Report
This past weekend my celebrated wife Diane and I drove through irritating Connecticut traffic to Rye Brook, New York for this year's Lunacon, the venerable New York science fiction convention. We had lovely weather, and took advantage of the fact that one of our kids is two weeks away from legal adulthood to have a…
The Cambias Digression 