The Cambias Digression

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

  • A Keene Event!

    Three weeks from today I'll be at the brand-new Barnes & Noble store in the lovely town of Keene, New Hampshire. As part of their grand opening, the store is having a score of authors from all over New England sign books and do readings during the month of July. I'll be doing my part…

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  • Australia, Part 2

    Thursday, April 24: We saw the hulk of the clipper ship City of Adelaide, which sits on land supported by a steel framework near the Port of Adelaide. The ship was built 160 years ago, with an iron frame and wood hull, made multiple trips around the world during the mid-19th century, spent some time…

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  • Australia, Part 1

    Being an Account of an Expedition to the Antipodes Undertaken in the Year of Our Lord 2025 For the Purpose of Scientific Inquiry and Exploration By Dr. Kelly and Mr. Cambias Back in 2024, Diane got awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to go study the reproductive physiology of echidnas in Australia. She flew across the Pacific…

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  • Off to LibertyCon 2025!

    In a couple of weeks I'm off to the mountain-girt fastness of Chattanooga, Tennessee, for this year's LibertyCon. It looks like a fun time. Here's my schedule in case you want to catch up with me at the convention: Friday, June 20, 3:00 P.M.: My Little (or Enormous) Buddy — Randee Dawn moderates a panel…

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  • If The Miranda Conspiracy Was A Movie

    Marshal Zeringue's Web site "My Book, The Movie" asks authors to imagine their books as films and pick actors for the lead roles. It's a fun question to answer — sometimes I know exactly who to cast, because I pictured a specific actor when writing the piece. And sometimes I have to go on a…

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  • The Page 69 Test

    Marshal Zeringue's "Page 69 Test" blog asks writers a simple question: what does one random page say about your book? He always picks the same one (presumably with help from Bill & Ted) but one could use a random number generator and come up with a custom version for every new book. Anyway, he asked…

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  • Unboxed!

    My author copies of The Miranda Conspiracy arrived today — which implies they've also arrived at your Friendly Neighborhood Book Store and the Amazon warehouses. Now's your chance to get one! Or more!

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  • Miranda Conspiracy Interview With Paul Semel

    I did an email interview with Paul Semel, a noted reviewer and critic of games, media, and fiction. It's pretty interesting, and fills in some of the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that led to the Billion Worlds and the oddly out-of-sequence nature of that sequence. You can read the interview here. For visual interest, I asked Midjourney…

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  • Boskone is Coming! Boskone is Coming!

    Mid-February brings blizzards, Valentines . . . and Boskone! On February 14-16 I'll be at the fabulous Westin Boston Seaport District hotel for New England's oldest science fiction convention. This year they're keeping me busy, which is great because The Miranda Conspiracy should just be hitting the bookstore shelves. Here's my schedule, and when I'm…

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  • Music Theory

    A while back I bought a set of CDs of all nine symphonies by Ludwig Van Beethoven. On long solo car trips I can now listen to them instead of trying to find a radio station which won't fade out after ten miles. I know — welcome to the 1990s. That's not the point. As…

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