Author Archives: JE

John O’Neill reports that Black Gate 12 has shipped. I was travelling a couple weeks ago when the issue preview posted on the website, but I was remiss not to note it here when I got back. I particularly like … Continue reading →

Here’s a robot piano accompanying a human player on an electric cello. Somehow that sounds like America to me.

I was working on a salvage ship among Saturn’s moons.

Apologies for my silence here, lately. There were complications of a pretty harsh sort toward the end of the Italy trip, then the journey home, then jetlag, then my deadline for Blood of Ambrose, more or less jumbled up on … Continue reading →

We went down to Pompeii and Naples this weekend.‭ ‬

Okay, now it can be told (since my brilliant agent Mike Kabongo, a.k.a. onyxhawke, already has): I’ve signed a deal with Pyr Books for a Morlock novel, Blood of Ambrose, which is due out Spring 2009. That makes for a … Continue reading →

I just wanted to post something here to let people know I wasn’t floating face down in the Tiber. Things are going well, but my internet connections remain chancy and tend to be available during the day when I’m busy … Continue reading →

Sorry I’ve been so silent lately. I made it to Rome, as the picture below should reveal… provided I can get LiveJournal to display it. (The LiveJournal interface seems a bit glitchy on my Linux-flavor of Firefox.) I kept seeing … Continue reading →

Here’s a short top-ten list I wrote for Return of the Sword‘s virtual book tour–a project I somehow lost track of as April got weirder and more intense. So this may have appeared elsewhere in the blogosphere recently, but I … Continue reading →

Paul Krugman shows his genre street cred with shout outs to Charles Stross and other writers of sf where the science is that dismal one. I think he’s right about Beyond This Horizon, too–not one of RAH’s greatest hits. An … Continue reading →