The Cambias Digression

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

  • Japanese Hamburgers, Hard SF, and Getting Things Right

    The most recent issue of Smithsonian magazine had an interesting article about some Japanese fans of particular types of Americana — like hamburgers, bourbon, jazz, and denim. You can read it here so I don't have to summarize. It's a neat article, and it connected up with some other threads inside my skull. Second thread:…

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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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  • Congratulations, Brian!

    Now that he's made the announcement on his own 'blog, I guess the secret's out: The Emperor's Blades is coming to HBO! Congratulations to Brian Staveley — you're in the big leagues now, Brian! Gonna have to get yourself a beard and one of those Greek fisherman hats! Watch the interview with Brian here.

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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…

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  • An Event And An Interview

    On Sunday, March 30, I'll join Brian Staveley and Ramona Wheeler for another joint Book Event at Flights of Fantasy Books and Games in Albany, New York. It all happens at 2 p.m. and everyone is welcome. If you haven't read enough interviews with me about A Darkling Sea, be sure to check out Andrew…

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  • Lunacon Report

    This past weekend my celebrated wife Diane and I drove through irritating Connecticut traffic to Rye Brook, New York for this year's Lunacon, the venerable New York science fiction convention. We had lovely weather, and took advantage of the fact that one of our kids is two weeks away from legal adulthood to have a…

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  • LunaCon 2014, Featuring ME!

    If you're going to be near Westchester County, New York this weekend, please consider stopping by the Hilton Westchester hotel in Rye Brook for Lunacon, New York's venerable science fiction convention. I'll be there, and here's my schedule: Friday, March 14, 5pm: Alternate Technologies in Historical Fiction — I'll be moderating a panel as we discuss…

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  • Promotional Round-Up

    A little housekeeping here. I'll be a guest at Lunacon in Rye, New York this coming weekend (March 14-16). If you're in the area, come and hear me talk about games, time travel, and Gravity, among other topics. You can also hear some expert science discussion by Dr. Diane A. Kelly. March 30 I'll join Brian…

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  • A Darkling Sea — The Musical!

    Despite having written a guest blog post about who I'd like to see in a movie version of A Darkling Sea, I'm pretty certain that it's one book which will never be filmed. As I pointed out in the blog post, it's about the most unfilmable novel ever written. Most of it takes place in…

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  • How To Authorify, Part 3

    February 2014 was a revelation to me. Up until A Darkling Sea came out, I still had the quaint belief that the author's job was to write stuff and the publishers took care of selling it. I forgot that one of the most effective selling tools in the publisher's kit is the author. During February…

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