Category: Weblogs
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Blogs I Read
Since I have twice this year had spikes in my blog traffic due to other people mentioning it on their blogs or on Twitter, I think it's time to do the same with my own mighty horde of followers. Here are the blogs I regularly read — with some important exceptions. I'm leaving off purely political…
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Game Mechanics (Part 2): Why They Don’t Matter
In my last post on the subject, I wrote about how important it is for game mechanics to replicate the reality of whatever the game is about. And then I left on a cliffhanger by saying that isn't actually true. It's not true because games depend on the players. A game is not a novel or…
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MidAmeriCon II, Day 4!
Sunday was a light day for me, and for everyone else as the con wound down. Lots of people standing in hotel lobbies having conversations while holding suitcases. My only event on the 21st was a panel on "How To Start A Writing Group" which went extremely well. I was the moderator, and my panelists…
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MidAmeriCon II, Day 3!
Saturday was a light-schedule day for me. I had a swim and a reasonably-priced breakfast at the Silver Spoon Diner across the street from my hotel, then went to the convention center to do a reading. I read two stories, "Parsifal (Prix Fixe)" which ran originally in F&SF, and "A Right Jolly Old . .…
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My Other Hat
I wear two hats, professionally. One of them is a propellor beanie, and is my Science Fiction Hat (if you win a Hugo award, you get to wear double propellors on your beanie). The other hat is my Game Design Hat (which probably looks like this). I wore my Science Fiction Hat when I wrote the…
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Golden Gate Blues: The Untold Story
Anyone who's interested in learning the Secret Backstory of my short story "Golden Gate Blues" can find out on the official 'blog of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, where there's a brief interview about How I Did It.
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The Only Award That Matters
You all can squabble over Nebula nominations and Hugo award slates. Corsair just won the only science fiction award that really matters: The Atomic Rockets Seal of Approval! Gaze upon it in envy and despair.
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Star of Blog and Podcast
There's a new podcast up at New Books in Science Fiction & Fantasy, with me in it. I was honored to find out that I was Rob Wolf's first repeat podcast interviewee (podcastee?). In this one we talk about Corsair, the Hieroglyph Project, and the chip on science fiction's shoulder.
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A Feather in My Cap
In between stops on the Great Summer 2015 Tor Books Rental Car Rally and Literary Cavalcade of Stars I managed to work in a brief interview for the fan web site Nerds of a Feather Flock Together (thanks to the magic of the Internet). You can read said interview here.
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Tors Tour To Towne
Tomorrow, July 22, the Rootin' Tootin' Tor Books Four-Author All-Singing, All-Dancing Book Tour and Menagerie of Savage Carnivores arrives at Towne Book Center in Collegeville Pennsylvania for an evening of readings, signing, and discussion. The show starts at 7:00 p.m. at 220 Plaza Drive in Collegeville, moderated by Chris Urie of the Geekadelphia 'blog. We…
The Cambias Digression 