Category: Books
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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…
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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.
The Cambias Digression 