Nova Swing Is Space Noir
Nova Swing is space noir, SF author M. John Harrison told SCI FI Wire. The book is set in roughly the same milieu as his Tiptree Award-winning novel Light.
Back to The Met
Back in August, I posted about my visit to The Met, and was dismayed over the fact that I brought my camera, but neglected to bring a change of batteries, and so ran out of power after just a few photos. Well, I made another trip this weekend, this time armed with fresh batteries in the camera, and an extra pair in my pocket. As a result, I took lots and lots of photos this time. I didn’t get to everything in the museum I wanted to see, but that just gives me an excuse to go back. This time around, I documented the armor section pretty well, and I viewed a temporary exhibit on faces in medieval sculpture, though this exhibit forbade photography (even flashless, apparently).
View the whole set here.
Echoes Captures Past Visions
Speaking to the Garden State Horror Writers
I’m going to be speaking at the Garden State Horror Writers meeting in March. About what, I’m not sure yet. Most of you reading this are writers. What do you guys want to know about? When Doug Cohen did GSHW, he talked about cover letters. What should I do?
Sixty Deals In Disaster
Feb. 9 — SCI FI Wire published a piece I wrote about Kim Stanley Robinson’s new novel Sixty Days and Counting.
Sixty Days and Counting deals with abrupt climate change. But it’s more than that, best-selling SF author Kim Stanley Robinson said: It’s utopian fiction, structured as a near-future disaster domestic comedy.
Assassin Parallels WWII
Feb. 8 — SCI FI Wire published a piece I wrote about Elizabeth Haydon’s new novel The Assasssin King.
The Assassin King is part of Elizabeth Haydon’s Symphony of Ages, which literally spans the history of the universe. Haydon told SCI FI Wire that she plotted out the history of the universe from birth to death in order to write work of this magnitude.
Replay Music: Streaming Music Recorder
If you’re like me, and you hate it when bands stream a song on their MySpace page or wherever, but don’t let you download it, then this software is for you. Replay Music is a streaming music recorder, and as the ad copy says it’s incredibly easy to use. I’ve used it several times now, and every track has not only been simple to record, but its turned out perfect as well. You can download the program as shareware and get 25 free recordings out of it, and then if you want to keep it, it’ll cost you $39.95. You ask me, it’s totally worth it.
See, the thing is, you give me a song to put on my iPod, you’ve dramatically increased the chances I’m going to buy your album. But you put it on your MySpace page, where I have to sit in front of my PC to hear it, it’s not going to help you much. And I want to discover new bands as much as those same bands want to be discovered by me and others like me, so everybody wins.
Terror Mixes SF, History
Feb. 7 — SCI FI Wire published a piece I wrote about Dan Simmons’s latest novel, The Terror.
The Terror centers with the ill-fated Franklin arctic expedition of 1845, then adds a fanged monster. Multiple award-winning SF/fantasy author Dan Simmons told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel is a work of imaginative fiction based on actual historical events.
Wastelands on MySpace
I created a MySpace page for Wastelands, my post-apocalyptic reprint anthology forthcoming from Night Shade Books. Check it out, and friend it!