Category: Books
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How to Authorify, Part 2
A Darkling Sea sat on my disk drive until 2012, when two things happened. The first was that David Hartwell invited me to his Hard SF Minicon in Westport, New York — chronicled here. That was a very entertaining weekend and gave me the opportunity to meet Gregory Benford in person. Mr. Benford apparently enjoyed…
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Three Thumbs Up
Rounding out the trifecta with Publisher's Weekly and Kirkus Reviews, now Booklist also gives A Darkling Sea a starred review in their December 15 issue. Apparently 2014 is going to be the year of big eyeless lobster-like aliens in literature. Get on the bandwagon now and start writing your erotic Darkling Sea fan fiction!
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Read an Excerpt From A Darkling Sea
If you want to see what all the fuss is about, the Tor.com Web site has an excerpt from my forthcoming novel A Darkling Sea. (Inside joke for SF people: now I know how to sell a story to Tor.com. Write it as part of a novel, and sell the novel to Tor.)
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Two Thumbs Up
Publishers Weekly just released their review of A Darkling Sea. Short summary: they like it. I may need to hire a contractor to alter all the doorways in my house so my head will still fit through them.
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Thumbs Up
The first reviews for A Darkling Sea are starting to trickle in, and Kirkus Reviews has a very favorable one. It's very gratifying to see that other people enjoy what I've written. I hope everyone else likes it as much. Up to the point at which the publisher accepted my final draft, Darkling Sea was…
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Win A Free Copy of A Darkling Sea!
Tor Books are giving away a free review copy of my upcoming novel (gosh I love writing those words) A Darkling Sea. Go to the Tor.com Web site for details. If you're related to me, don't sign up.
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Welcome to the Twenty-First Century
I got a surprise package in the mail the other day: my contributor copy of Twenty-First Century Science Fiction, an anthology edited by David Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden. It's a collection of stories by science fiction writers whose careers have taken off since the start of the new century, and the list of authors…
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Lone Star Literary Soiree
Last weekend I had a wonderful time at LoneStarCon 3, in beautiful, blazing-hot San Antonio. I went to panels, served on a couple, went to parties, ate a great deal of meat, watched the Hugos, and generally hobnobbed with the nabobs of science fiction and fantasy. And I made a discovery which should have been…
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Hugo Congratulations
Congratulations to this year's Hugo Award winners: John Scalzi for Best Novel (Redshirts) Brandon Sanderson for Best Novella ("The Emperor's Soul") Pat Cadigan for Best Novelette ("The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi") Ken Liu for Best Short Story ("Mono no Aware") Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Mary Kowal, and Howard Tayler for Best Related Work…
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Movies I Want (Part 2)
A while back I listed five classic science fiction novels that I'd like to see made into films. Here is a second list of five. I'm trying to limit myself to stories which could easily survive the Hollywood process and still retain some of their original appeal. • Ringworld, by Larry Niven. The story is…
The Cambias Digression 