For the curious reader of science fiction (scifi) and fantasy
Now for the difficult post. My friend Victoria passed away yesterday. The cancer won in the end—at least as far as her life on earth is concerned. Most of you don’t know Victoria, but she was a founding member of … Read More
…and a few thousand other books that happen to be published by Macmillan (of which Tor is an imprint). That’s right, if you click one of my many links to Sunborn’s page at Amazon.com, you now will see it for … Read More
There was a time when I expected this after every election: a deep feeling of depression. But more recent events had lulled me into thinking that, at least once in a while, the majority of the electorate (at least in … Read More
Allysen and I finally got to see Avatar in 3D today. We both loved it. The 3D effects were wonderful—but it wasn’t just a matter of great special effects. It was a good story well told (familiar, to be sure), … Read More
Sunborn is now available in mass market paperback, from Tor Books—everywhere fine, cosmic, headbanging, epic, sensawunda, character-driven hard-SF is sold. (And if you don’t find it in your local emporium, please ask for it! You’ll be helping enormously.) For the … Read More
Last summer I appeared as a guest lecturer at the Odyssey writing workshop. What I talked most about was story structure, what it is, and why it’s important. The folks at Odyssey have just posted an excerpt from my lecture … Read More
It’s hard to believe it’s really 2010 already. Back when Arthur C. Clarke was writing some of his seminal work, we thought there’d be Moon bases by now, and exploration ships to Jupiter! Not to mention alien contact. I guess … Read More