Category: Books
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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…
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Work In Progress: Corsair (Part 4)
Well, it's done. I beefed it up by nearly a third and sent it out to my agent. I hope it finds a home. One thing which expanding Corsair has allowed me to do is to give the minor characters more spotlight time. One of them — Anne Rogers — got promoted from a secondary…
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Movies I Want (Part 1)
Science fiction has won the battle. Until the 1980s, big-budget science fiction films were few and far between. Now SF movies make up a significant fraction of the movies released by Hollywood. It's a safe, dependable genre, like romantic comedies or thrillers. Legions of effects creators, makeup artists, and prop builders can earn steady incomes…
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Getting Rid of Books
This week my wife and I tackled the hardest task for any family of readers: getting rid of books. Our house has about 200 feet of shelves, some of them packed two layers deep with books. We also have stacks of books in the office and the bedroom waiting to be read. They pile up…
The Cambias Digression 