Tag: James L. Cambias
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This Summer’s Big Idea
I’ve got a guest post up at John Scalzi’s “Whatever” ‘blog, part of his series of other writers discussing the “big ideas” in their books. For this entry I decided to talk about my ideas for Venus terraforming — or, as I dubbed it in The Ishtar Deception, “cryoforming.” The capsule summary is that making…
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The Ishtar Deception Faces Its First Test
“The Page 69 Test” is a blog, part of the “Campaign for the American Reader” family of Web sites. Its specific focus is on whether Page 69 of a book gives the reader a good idea of what the rest of the volume is like. (It’s based on a quote from Marshall McLuhan.) You can…
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Unboxed!
I got my box of author copies of The Ishtar Deception, so here’s a first look! The official publication date is June 2, so now is the time to make sure your local book store has it on order, and to put in your advance orders on Amazon. And as always, if you are caught,…
The Cambias Digression 