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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 →

bg_editor had a great post recently, which provoked a fascinating comment thread, about Universe R, a parallel timeline where certain works that didn’t survive in our world remain intact, and where works that didn’t get made in our world (but … Continue reading →

nihilistic_kid has a post on writing fantasy, distinguishing it from some thing(s) he calls “fantatwee.” By this he means “second order fantasy” or fantasy which derives from other people’s fantasies. He links to a story by Theodora Goss here, and … Continue reading →

Remember the old G.B. Shaw gag that ghoti is an alternate spelling of fish? Apparently it’s not Shaw’s at all, but comes out of the “reformed spelling” movement of the 19th C. Language Log has the details, including yet more … Continue reading →

As a big Leigh Brackett fan I’ve naturally been snapping up the Haffner omnibuses that promise to collect all the “planetary romances” (i.e. space operas, not kissing-in-space, although there is some of that) by the greatest practitioner of that form. … Continue reading →