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Somewhere over the Pacific it is still Wednesday, so I feel that my Blog Gate post of the week is not actually late. (Well, late-ish, maybe.)

Intrepid (and Hugo-nominated) editor Lou Anders (who is busy enough with more important things lately; see a recent interview here) has put up the full text of the Morlock story “A Book of Silences” (originally published in Black Gate 10). … Continue reading →

Franz Kafka International Airport: not as inviting as it sounds. Prague’s Franz Kafka International Named World’s Most Alienating Airport Maybe the weirdest thing about this joke is the cool professionalism with which the story is delivered by Bobbie Battista, a … Continue reading →

I was sorry to see that Nicholas Hughes, son of Ted Hughes (the late poet laureate, adapter of Seneca and Euripides, author of Crow etc.) and Sylvia Plath (author of Ariel, The Bell Jar etc.) had taken his own life. … Continue reading →

My Blog Gate post of the week is finally up, a penultimate Nebulation (about the Nebunovellas, this time). I’m working on the novels, but I may not have them all read by next week’s post: kind of depends on how … Continue reading →

Plumbing is the mind-killer. Plumbing is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my plumbing. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye … Continue reading →

1. Vergil’s Facebook page (seen at Rogue Classicism). 2. The Hobbiton & Barchester panel for Flycon, starting at 2 PM Eastern Daylight Time (11 AM Pacific).

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 →