Category: Books
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Book Launch Party: Everyone On Earth is Invited!
This Saturday Baen Books is hosting a virtual Book Launch party for The Scarab Mission. At 8:00 p.m. Eastern US Time I'll be on a livestream — answering questions, talking about the book and future projects, and generally doing my best to be a funny dancing monkey. You can see it on the Baen YouTube…
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I Don’t Know What’s Going On With Amazon
A number of eager fans have reported that they can't order the print edition of The Scarab Mission from Amazon. I don't know why this is happening. I've notified Baen Books about it, and I'm sure they've been rattling Amazon's cage. I am sure that the books really exist. I got my complimentary copies weeks…
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Notes on Scarabs
My newest novel, The Scarab Mission, hits the stores today. If you pre-ordered from Amazon it should be on your doorstep. So . . . what's it all about, anyway? Where did this book come from and why did I write it? The Scarab Mission is the second novel in my expanding "Billion Worlds" series…
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Scarab Mission Debuts Tomorrow!
Tomorrow is January 3, the official publication date of my new novel The Scarab Mission! This is my sixth published novel, my fourth published by Baen Books, and the second full-length work in my "Billion Worlds" series. As always I'm proud to see it come out, pleased at the good reviews it has gotten so…
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Interview With the Scarab
If you want to see an interview with my character Solana Sina, one of the protagonists of The Scarab Mission, check out this Web site: The Protagonist Speaks. Her interview is here. You can find out something about her awful childhood, her colleagues on the mission to Safdaghar, and some of what went wrong. Then you…
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Scarab Mission Ad!
Here's a great ad for The Scarab Mission, currently running in Library Journal: Pre-order now!
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Publishers Weekly Praises Scarab Mission!
I'm very pleased to see that Publishers Weekly had a very favorable review of The Scarab Mission in their latest issue. Here's what they had to say: Cambias expertly combines confident worldbuilding, high stakes action, and suspenseful mystery in his second Billion Worlds space adventure (after The Godel Operation). Safdaghar, one of the billion space…
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My WorldCon Schedule
In two and a half weeks I'll be in Chicago for ChiCon 8, the 80th World Science Fiction Convention. I offered to participate in programming events, and they're really making me sing for my supper this time. Thursday, September 1 (all times are CDT) 2:30 P.M.: Writing and Story Development for Tabletop Games. This is…
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Discover an Archipelago of Lost Worlds
I'm pleased to report that the long-awaited anthology Lost Worlds and Mythological Kingdoms is now available. It's edited by John Joseph Adams and features a pretty impressive lineup of contributors, including Theodora Goss, Cadwell Turnbull, and Becky Chambers. The seventeen stories in the book are all about visits to hidden or imaginary lands — a…
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Orwell on Putin
Well, not Putin, actually. Another political leader noted for aggression in Eastern Europe. Orwell reviewed a book written by that leader and speculated on the reasons for his political success: "[That guy], because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don’t only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control…
The Cambias Digression 