The Cambias Digression

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

  • Scarab Mission World Exclusive!

    If you want a copy of The Scarab Mission, make your way to the Westin Seaport Hotel in Boston and seek out the booth for Larry Smith Booksellers in the dealer area. They've got six signed, hand-delivered copies of The Scarab Mission, making them the only book dealer in the world right now capable of…

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  • Arisia 2023

    This weekend Boston's biggest annual science fiction convention returns to the Westin Seaport hotel, January 13-16. I'll be there, promoting my rare and eagerly-sought new book The Scarab Mission. I'm also doing several panels and events. Saturday, January 14 10:00 A.M.: Connecting With Your Kids Through Media — How liking the same nerdy stuff as…

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  • Scarab Mission Update

    According to my publisher, The Scarab Mission was printed on time (and I have my comp copies as proof of that), they arrived at the Simon & Schuster warehouse on time, and at the proper moment they were shipped out . . . somewhere. Not to Amazon or bookstores. The good people at Simon &…

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  • Book Launch Party: Everyone On Earth is Invited!

    This Saturday Baen Books is hosting a virtual Book Launch party for The Scarab Mission. At 8:00 p.m. Eastern US Time I'll be on a livestream — answering questions, talking about the book and future projects, and generally doing my best to be a funny dancing monkey. You can see it on the Baen YouTube…

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  • I Don’t Know What’s Going On With Amazon

    A number of eager fans have reported that they can't order the print edition of The Scarab Mission from Amazon. I don't know why this is happening. I've notified Baen Books about it, and I'm sure they've been rattling Amazon's cage. I am sure that the books really exist. I got my complimentary copies weeks…

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  • Notes on Scarabs

    My newest novel, The Scarab Mission, hits the stores today. If you pre-ordered from Amazon it should be on your doorstep. So . . . what's it all about, anyway? Where did this book come from and why did I write it? The Scarab Mission is the second novel in my expanding "Billion Worlds" series…

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  • Scarab Mission Debuts Tomorrow!

    Tomorrow is January 3, the official publication date of my new novel The Scarab Mission!  This is my sixth published novel, my fourth published by Baen Books, and the second full-length work in my "Billion Worlds" series. As always I'm proud to see it come out, pleased at the good reviews it has gotten so…

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  • Christmas and Hanukkah Dinner!

    One last food post about our magnificent December 25 dinner, and then I'll get back to serious talk about space aliens. This year, since Christmas and the final night of Hanukkah happened on the same day, we decided to do a really big holiday dinner. Both of our kids would be home, and we invited…

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  • Interview With the Scarab

    If you want to see an interview with my character Solana Sina, one of the protagonists of The Scarab Mission, check out this Web site: The Protagonist Speaks. Her interview is here. You can find out something about her awful childhood, her colleagues on the mission to Safdaghar, and some of what went wrong. Then you…

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  • Seasonal Music

    Note: the Worldbuilding series will continue. I've been busy with other things over the past month but I haven't abandoned it. It's December, and one of the local radio stations has gone over to an all-Christmas music format for the entire month. As it's one of my presets on the car radio, I wind up…

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