The Cambias Digression

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

  • Three Thumbs Up

    Rounding out the trifecta with Publisher's Weekly and Kirkus Reviews, now Booklist also gives A Darkling Sea a starred review in their December 15 issue. Apparently 2014 is going to be the year of big eyeless lobster-like aliens in literature. Get on the bandwagon now and start writing your erotic Darkling Sea fan fiction!

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  • Read an Excerpt From A Darkling Sea

    If you want to see what all the fuss is about, the Tor.com Web site has an excerpt from my forthcoming novel A Darkling Sea. (Inside joke for SF people: now I know how to sell a story to Tor.com. Write it as part of a novel, and sell the novel to Tor.)

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  • Two Thumbs Up

    Publishers Weekly just released their review of A Darkling Sea. Short summary: they like it. I may need to hire a contractor to alter all the doorways in my house so my head will still fit through them.

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  • Winter’s Tales

    Winter has arrived. One can go by the calendar, using either December 1 as the start of the "winter months," or use the Winter Solstice. The latter is beloved of radio disk jockeys and talk show hosts, who love to announce on December 22 that "this is the official beginning of winter" and mock those…

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  • Thumbs Up

    The first reviews for A Darkling Sea are starting to trickle in, and Kirkus Reviews has a very favorable one. It's very gratifying to see that other people enjoy what I've written. I hope everyone else likes it as much. Up to the point at which the publisher accepted my final draft, Darkling Sea was…

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  • Comet ISON, RIP

    Turns out barnstorming less than a million miles above the Sun's visible surface at more than a thousandth of the speed of light can be dangerous if you're a chunk of ice. Comet ISON disappeared behind the Sun earlier today . . . and failed to reappear on the other side.  Around Christmas time we…

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  • Administrative Note

    I've had to switch over to moderated comments because of the astonishing volume of gibberish spam lately. If you post a brilliant comment or clever riposte and don't see it right away, that just means I have to approve it.

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  • Leveraging Our Desires

    My kids have recently become enamored of the TV show Leverage, watching it via Hulu and Netflix. If you're not familiar with the series, it's basically an updated Mission: Impossible. Each episode centers on an elaborate caper performed by our slightly shady heroes, typically aimed at righting some wrong. To make the episodes interesting, the…

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  • Win A Free Copy of A Darkling Sea!

    Tor Books are giving away a free review copy of my upcoming novel (gosh I love writing those words) A Darkling Sea. Go to the Tor.com Web site for details. If you're related to me, don't sign up.  

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  • Season of the Witch

    It's Halloween today, and I notice that Google has chosen to celebrate the day with a "Google Doodle" of a witch busy at her cauldron. I've written about Halloween witches elsewhere, but one of the links off the Google page (this one) reminded me of something I've come to detest in modern supernatural fiction. In…

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