The Cambias Digression

Notes and thoughts on everything from what I had for breakfast to the fate of the Universe.

  • Godel Operation Interview by Paul Semel

    As I mentioned in my last post, I've been doing a lot of interviews and soliciting plenty of reviews for the release week of The Godel Operation. This is to make sure that people who might like the book hear about it — and I think a lot of people will like the book. All…

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  • Launch!

    The Godel Operation is officially published today. Which is kind of a weird thing to say. I've had a box of copies sitting in my living room for nearly a month. You've been able to pre-order it on Amazon since last Fall. You've been able to download eARCs from the Baen Web site for months.…

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  • Godel Operation Minus One

    Eight . . . seven . . . six . . .  The promotional juggernaut for The Godel Operation rolls on with one day left before the official release date for the book. If you like you can read Marshal Zeringue's "Q & A" interview with me about it on the Campaign for the American…

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  • Godel Operation Minus Two

    Counting down now to launch. One early promotional effort: my guest article at the 'blog My Book, The Movie — in which I discuss who would be best to play the characters in The Godel Operation if it ever makes it to the screen. You can read it here. Writing that piece was surprisingly difficult.…

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  • Worldbuilding Workshop: After-Action Report

    On April 17 I ran a three-hour workshop on science fiction worldbuilding for the Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop. It was my first time teaching a class of any kind, so I think I learned as much as I hope my students did. The students were great. All ten of them were engaged, intelligent, and seemed…

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  • Publishers Weekly Reviews Godel Operation

    The first reviews of The Godel Operation are starting to trickle in as the release date approaches. Here's what Publishers Weekly had to say. Sounds like their reviewer enjoyed it. I hope everyone else does, too.  The Godel Operation  James L. Cambias. Baen, $16 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-982125-56-1  With this freewheeling story of an…

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  • Godel Operation Minus 10

    Ten days from now is the official publication date of The Godel Operation. The clocks are running, the pumps are powering up, and the gantry has been rolled back. Be sure to get a copy because this launch is going to be spectacular. If you want to read more about The Godel Operation, see my…

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  • In the Right Ballpark

    Last year I wrote a nine-part series of 'blog posts about the Drake Equation, the Fermi Paradox, the Great Filter, and how many civilizations are likely to exist in the Milky Way Galaxy. If you want to re-read it, start here. To give away the ending, after a lot of discussion I would up estimating about…

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  • Let’s Build a World

    This Saturday, April 17, I'll be teaching "It Used to Take a Week," an online workshop on worldbuilding in science fiction for the Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop. This is a new step for me — I've never taught a class before. Except that I've done hundreds of convention panels and presentations over the years, and…

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  • Inception Et Cetera

    I recently saw the film Inception for the first time — I'm not sure why I didn't watch it when it came out, but I didn't. It's a great movie, and it helped me to understand a key difference between science fiction films and novels. A perennial gripe about SF in movies is that films…

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