Category: Travel
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A New Blog
The United Nations Interstellar Cooperation Agency has a new blog devoted to their Ilmatar interstellar mission. Check it out here. There's also a link to a site with some cool HENRI KERLEREC merchandise.
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Comic Con
This past Friday my talented wife and I spent the day on the placid isle of Manhattan, at the New York Comic Con. I've gone to a lot of science fiction and game conventions in my time. I've manned a booth at Gen-Con during the peak of the card game boom. I've been to World…
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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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LoneStarCon 3, Featuring ME!!
I got my final schedule of events for LoneStarCon 3, this summer's World Science Fiction Convention held in lovely, blistering-hot San Antonio from August 29 to September 2. They've definitely found some ways to keep me busy. Here's where to find me: Autographing: Steve Brust, James L. Cambias, Gini Koch, Jay Lake (Friday, August 30,…
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The Perpetual Tourist
I recently got back from a trip, and of course there were lots of mundane errands to run as soon as I got home. The usual stuff — buying things, dropping kids off, mailing things, banking, all the business of middle-class life. But I found myself experiencing a sort of psychic jet-lag, as though my…
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The Barcelona Operation: Day 7 (and Afterthoughts)
How long does it take to get a cab in Barcelona at 4:45 a.m. on a Sunday morning? Fifteen seconds. It's that kind of a town. Of course, that meant that we got to the airport absurdly early, giving us time to drink one last bottle of European Fanta (it's not as sweet, which actually…
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The Barcelona Operation, Day 6
Over the years we've learned a useful trick for trip planning: leave an extra day. Having a free day means you have some time for overflow — if something's closed on the day you planned to see it, you can go in on the extra day; or if you find something you hadn't known about,…
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The Barcelona Operation, Day 5
Again we breakfasted in our flat on croissants from the local bakery, accompanied by what I thougt was orange juice but turned out to be an orange-soy "health" blend with the chalky taste of Tang. Once all of us were dressed and ready, we sortied toward the Museum of the History of Barcelona, located just…
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The Barcelona Operation, Day 4
By Thursday we were getting into the rhythms of the neighborhood. I got up at 7 and went out to buy breakfast. Seven o'clock on a weekday in Barcelona (at least in the old section) is like 6 a.m. in an American city: a handful of early workers are going to their jobs, delivery trucks…
The Cambias Digression 