Category: Travel
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The Big 2015 Summer Book Tour!
I haven't been talking much about promotional events for Corsair, but that's about to change. Apparently the three-author road show I did with Ramona Wheeler and Brian Staveley back in the winter of 2014 was enough of a success that Tor Books's publicity department has arranged a bigger and more elaborate version this year. Four…
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What Time Is It?
It's PLUTO TIME! In honor of the New Horizons probe's approach to Pluto (which isn't a planet, and don't argue about it or the IAU will send their Goon Squad to settle the matter), NASA has set up the "Pluto Time" Web site. Here's how it works: you enter your location, and the site tells…
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Science of Sci-Fi at M.I.T.
Tomorrow evening I'll be entering the august and notoriously long halls of the mighty Massachusetts Institute of Technology to take part in a panel discussion on "The Science of Sci-Fi." It will be held in M.I.T. Room 4-231 (wherever that may be) at 7:30 p.m. on May 13, and is open to the public. We'll…
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Boskone: Realm of the Ice Demons!
Later this week I will make the epic journey through the snow-cursed wilderness of Massachusetts to attend this year's Boskone convention. I may have to eat the sled dogs and my faithful Sherpa guide, but the lure of the exotic Westin pleasure-dome draws me onward, and the Ice Demons will learn to fear my axe.…
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Arisia 2015, Featuring MEE!
The venerable Arisia convention gets underway at the Westin on Boston's waterfront tomorrow, and once again I will be a program participant. If you want to see me perform for your entertainment, here's where and when the monkey will dance: Friday (January 16) at 5:30 p.m.: Do We Need Science Fiction? Panel discussion on whether…
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Philcon 2014
This coming weekend I'll be at Philcon, the venerable Philadelphia science fiction convention. Like a lot of venerable Northeastern science fiction conventions, it's no longer held in the city where it began, but off in a suburb where the hotels are affordable. (The only exception to that rule I know of is Boskone, which is…
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Hieroglyphs in Phoenix
On October 22, Changing Hands bookstore in Phoenix is sponsoring an evening of presentations by Hieroglyph Project authors. It's at the Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix, beginning at 7 p.m. this Wednesday. Anyone within driving range of Phoenix is welcome. You have to buy a copy of the anthology to get in, but if you don't…
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Let Slip the Dogs of War!
This coming Saturday, October 11, I'll be at Phoenix Books in Burlington, Vermont, for a reading and signing to promote the anthology War Stories (just out from Apex Publications). Editor Andrew Liptak and my fellow contributor F. Brett Cox will also be there. And, since this coincides with the annual "Star Wars Reads" event, I…
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Diversity and DragonCon
In recent years the cozy cameraderie of the science fiction world has been disrupted by controversies over diversity and tolerance. We've been told that SF is too white, too male, and too straight, and that we need to Do Something to change that. I'm not going to grapple with the question of whether the demographics…
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Here Be Dragons: Dragon-Con 2014
My talented wife Diane Kelly was invited to participate in this year's Dragon-Con in Atlanta as a science panelist. I tagged along, for several reasons. My first priority was to work in a little book promotion for A Darkling Sea and the upcoming Corsair. To that end I volunteered to help man the SFWA table…
The Cambias Digression 