Category: Books
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Promotional Round-Up
A little housekeeping here. I'll be a guest at Lunacon in Rye, New York this coming weekend (March 14-16). If you're in the area, come and hear me talk about games, time travel, and Gravity, among other topics. You can also hear some expert science discussion by Dr. Diane A. Kelly. March 30 I'll join Brian…
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A Darkling Sea — The Musical!
Despite having written a guest blog post about who I'd like to see in a movie version of A Darkling Sea, I'm pretty certain that it's one book which will never be filmed. As I pointed out in the blog post, it's about the most unfilmable novel ever written. Most of it takes place in…
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Lovecraftian Interlude
Recently I've been re-reading H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness for the umpty-ninth time. It's one of my favorite stories, and like many great stories one keeps finding new bits in it. This time around I noticed something subtle, so subtle I can't make up my mind if Lovecraft meant it deliberately or not.…
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Wow
A Darkling Sea has even reached the newly-Bezosicated pages of the Washington Post. No word about whether the reporter had to meet with secretive crustacean informants in some dingy parking garage. Read the review here.
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Guest Blog Round-Up!
As part of the process of letting readers know about my new book, I've been doing a lot of guest blogging. It's been fun, and I trust the 'blog-reading public aren't getting sick of hearing from me. Here's my 'blog tour, so far: For the Tor/Forge 'blog I wrote about building Ilmatar. For Lawrence Schoen's…
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On the Road, Week 2
The A Darkling Sea book tour continues! I and my two colleagues Brian Staveley and Ramona Wheeler will be reading, answering questions, and signing books at the following locations. Tuesday, February 11, 7 p.m.: RiverRun Bookstore, Portsmouth NH. Thursday, February 13, 7 p.m.: Harvard Coop Bookstore, Cambridge MA. Friday, February 14, 7 p.m.: I'll be…
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On the Road, Week 1
UPDATE: The Towne Book Center signing in Collegeville PA has been cancelled due to snow. I'll let everyone know when it's rescheduled. Now that A Darkling Sea is in stores, I'm hitting the road to promote it. Tor Books has put together a little traveling carnival, consisting of me, fantasy author Brian Staveley (The Emperor's Blades),…
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Darkling Sea Review Roundup!
A Darkling Sea is in the stores, on the shelves — and in the clutches of reviewers. They have been quite positive, though. We've already heard from the Big Three, but now various bloggers and free-lance critics are weighing in. Annalee Newitz gave it a favorable review on NPR. SF Crowsnest has a nice writeup…
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A New Blog
The United Nations Interstellar Cooperation Agency has a new blog devoted to their Ilmatar interstellar mission. Check it out here. There's also a link to a site with some cool HENRI KERLEREC merchandise.
The Cambias Digression 