Monthly Archives: March 2009

The FlyCon chat session was a blast. I stayed on and kibbitzed on Kate Elliott’s, forming a settled conviction that everyone in the world should buy millions of Kate Elliott books.

I’ve been remiss in not noting what SF Scope and my brilliant agent, Michael Kabongo already have: Pyr is taking a second sequel to Blood of Ambrose. (The first sequel, This Crooked Way is due out in Fall 2009.) Does … Continue reading →

My Blog Gate post of the week is up, this one a glance at the current nominees for the Nebula in the novelette category, with a lament for absent squid. Possibly worth mentioning again: I’ll be participating in FlyCon this … Continue reading →

I made a resolution that today’s post would not link to a comic or discuss Watchmen in any way. So. I’m batting .500, is how I look at it.

I guess it’s finally time for me to address the issue that’s been sending shockwaves through my flist recently–in fact, through the entire internet: the presence of “99 Luftballons” on the Watchmen soundtrack.

People die. Nations die. But Watchmen jokes go on forever. (Or at least for the rest of the weekend.) [edited to add: the whole Ombudsmen! run on one page here.]

[Seen at Lou Anders’ Bowing to the Future.]

“Life According to Garfield Something Positive CONAN.”

1. Free books, from Suvudu. 2. New moon around Saturn, from Cassini. 3. Two vast, light-devouring holes in a death-spiral around each other. No, this is not a story about modern politics or finance.

My latest post on the Blog Gate is up, this one a quick snark-around-the-block covering the stories on the final ballot for the Nebula. Because, hey. Why not? (Please don’t tell me why.)