Category: Books
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Arisia 2023
This weekend Boston's biggest annual science fiction convention returns to the Westin Seaport hotel, January 13-16. I'll be there, promoting my rare and eagerly-sought new book The Scarab Mission. I'm also doing several panels and events. Saturday, January 14 10:00 A.M.: Connecting With Your Kids Through Media — How liking the same nerdy stuff as…
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Scarab Mission Update
According to my publisher, The Scarab Mission was printed on time (and I have my comp copies as proof of that), they arrived at the Simon & Schuster warehouse on time, and at the proper moment they were shipped out . . . somewhere. Not to Amazon or bookstores. The good people at Simon &…
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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…
The Cambias Digression 