Tag: science fiction
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The Greatest Science Fiction Novel Ever (Part 3)
This entry features a couple of “heavy hitters” in the science fiction world: Robert Heinlein and Frank Herbert, so it’s a bit longer than the others so far. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein I suppose I should start by explaining why this isn’t Starship Troopers. Two reasons: first, I tried to…
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The Greatest Science Fiction Novel Ever (Part 2)
My first post in this series generated a satisfying amount of comments and response, so I’m pushing ahead. Here are the next two entries. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess was a literary and intellectual giant, the author of novels, screenplays, reviews, essays, poems, translations, opera librettos, and music. He won the Nobel…
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The Greatest Science Fiction Novel Ever (Part 1)
If you ask someone to name the greatest Fantasy novel, you’ve got a very good chance of hearing them say, “The Lord of the Rings, of course.” It’s a pretty safe bet. The Lord of the Rings was named the Greatest Novel of the 20th century — overall, no genre specified — in a British…
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DragonCon Report
My science advisor was invited to participate in this year’s DragonCon, the huge SF and media convention in Atlanta, famed for the amazing quality of the costumes on display. Some have called it “Nerd Mardi Gras” and it’s not a bad summary. I tagged along, partly because Baen Books always has a pretty good presence…
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Glowing Review for Ishtar Deception
What it says on the tin. Paul DiFilippo reviewed The Ishtar Deception in Locus. Spoiler alert: he liked it.
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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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Ishtar Deception: The Movie
No, Hollywood hasn’t come calling (yet). But the Campaign for the American Reader’s “My Book: The Movie” blog has a post up featuring my thoughts on who I’d cast as various characters in The Ishtar Deception. Read it here.
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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…
