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Another visit to cancerland, the world's worst vacation destination.
Hey, folks, Not going to bury the lede here, everything is big-picture fine and there’s no recurrence; don’t worry. I am however still having some…
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May 2023
We had some good machines, but they don't work no more.*
Lily-of-the-Valley was my grandmother’s favorite flower. When we moved into this house, I was thrilled to find a thriving plantation of it around the…
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--30--
The Folded Sky draft is handed in. I’ve been working on this book for five year, with breaks to do other stuff along the way, and I am glad to have…
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If you can't achieve synthesis, how about an orgy of violence?
One of the most fascinating elements of modern speculative fiction, that descendant of scientifiction, of SFF, of sci-fi, of fantastical literature, of…
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Elizabeth Bear
I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date--
oopsie
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When you play more sports you're going to need more stadiums: the Rainbow Age of Speculative Fiction
Hey, folks, At worldcon, I was arguing (in the rhetorical barcon sense, not the having a fight sense) with a friend about the Rainbow Age of Science…
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To serve Mankind. I mean, to save $20.
I got my blood pressure taken by a marsh-wiggle last week.
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Spóla update
The trainer who is working with Scott's new horse sent this. Apparently she was sacked out completely for over an hour, which is a good sign with…
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People jumping out of perfectly good spaceships, 30% off.
Hey everybody! Just wanted to let my UK/Commonwealth readers know that IN CELEBRATION OF THE DAY, the paperbacks of MACHINE and ANCESTRAL NIGHT are 30…
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Fellas, it's been good to know you.
I was pretty sure Gordon Lightfoot was going to live forever, but I see on the slowly entropizing Twitter machine that he’s passed away. So this seems…
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April 2023
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