Category: Weblogs
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It’s Science!
Chad Orzel has a neat article up at Forbes on science in science fiction. I'd be lying if I didn't admit I'm linking it because he has some kind words for A Darkling Sea.
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Morons With Bullhorns
A few days ago John Scalzi put up this blog post, commenting (in the usual tail-chasing fashion of the Internet) on someone else's Twitter comment about yet a third person's magazine article — all wrestling with the question of whether writers should or should not try to be apolitical. John says no. I disagree with…
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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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Tis The Season
. . . for the NORAD Santa Tracker once again! The countdown clock is running, and NORAD personnel are already giving deadpan media interviews about this year's operation.
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What I’ve Been Up To
It's been a while since my last posting, due to a combination of being busy and being sick (and not getting well as fast as I'd like because of the busy component). Fortunately, I can make other people do the work for me. This podcast explains some of where I've been for the past month.…
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I Have Joined the Pod People
I have left the silent era and entered the world of podcasting. Rob Wolf interviewed me for his New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy podcast. You can go here to listen to me talk about A Darkling Sea, Aztecs, why roleplaying games are different from novels, Bone Wars, my obsession with getting stuff right,…
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A Darkling Alumni Magazine
The University of Chicago magazine Web site has the transcript of an interview with me about A Darkling Sea. Enjoy!
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Invoco Legem Magicarum!
. . . as Mandrake the Magician used to say. Kinetic fantasy author Max Gladstone wrote an interesting post about "Magic Systems and the Wizardsroman" on his own blog. He's interested in the connections between story and How Magic Works (that is, how the fictional magic operates within a fantasy story), and it started me…
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A Video Review and an Interview
Here's a nifty video review of Darkling Sea, courtesy of SFReviews.net. And if watching videos isn't what you want to do today, here's a print interview at Space Review.
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The Show Goes On!
The Book Event at Towne Book Center in Collegeville, Pennsylvania is set for this Saturday, April 5, at 3 p.m. Originally scheduled for early February, this Event had to get moved because of heavy snow. But now that the weather has improved from Utterly Horrid to Merely Unpleasant, the Event is back on! Come see…
The Cambias Digression 