Shriek Revisits Ambergris
SCI FI Wire just published a piece I wrote about Jeff VanderMeer’s new Ambergris novel, Shriek: An Afterword.
Design an Alien Game! Be Immortalized in Print!
Lou Anders has announced a new contest related to Mike Resnick’s forthcoming novel, Starship: Pirate.
Now, if you’ll excuse a tiny spoiler, in Starship: Pirate, one of the characters introduces the crew of the Teddy R. to a wildly popular, presumably alien game called “bilsang,” said to be as “a game that makes chess and toprench look like kid’s games.” Mike describes some of the aspects of the game, but leaves the actual rules up to the reader’s imagination.
Now, because I thought it was a pretty nifty idea last time, we are running some fairly extensive appendices in the back of each of the Starship books. And when I came to the passage about bilsang, I thought, what a good appendix a set of bilsang rules would make.
So, that brings us to the contest.
We’re looking for some brilliant, talented gamers with time on their hands to have a go at creating the rules of bilsang. …
Tears Gets Interactive
SCI FI Wire just published a piece I wrote about Cecilia Dart-Thornton’s new fantasy novel, The Well of Tears, which includes an interactive CD-Rom that lets the reader explore the world of the novel in 3-D.
Sterling’s Visionary Spans Globe
SCI FI Wire just published a piece I wrote about Bruce Sterling’s new short fiction collection, Visionary in Residence.
‘Keyboard’ Channels Bach
SCI FI Wire just published a story I wrote about John G. McDaid’s story, “Keyboard Practice, Consisting of an Aria With Diverse Variations for the Harpsichord With Two Manuals.”
Night Shade Books Sale
Night Shade Books is having a sale:
Until 11:59pm Friday night (PST), you can get 50% off of your order by using the coupon code NSB0250. In order to take advantage of the coupon, you’ll have to order a minimum of four books. The coupon is good for both in-stock and forthcoming titles.
The Fantasy Novel Title Generator
Oh, this is awesome. The Fantasy Novel Title Generator. Via Adam Stemple via Making Light.
Update: Also, The Plot Twist Generator. Via the On Spec blog.
Which Force User Are You?
You scored as Master Yoda. Yoda: The Master.
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Master Yoda |
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67% |
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Mace Windu |
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63% |
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Luke Skywalker |
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58% |
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Obi-Wan Kenobi |
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54% |
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Darth Maul |
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50% |
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Qui-Gon Jinn |
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42% |
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Count Dooku |
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42% |
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Darth Sidious |
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17% |
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Anakin Skywalker |
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13% |
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Darth Vader |
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0% |
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Random Jedi |
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0% |
What Force User Are You?
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India Inspired Sagramanda
SCI FI Wire just published a piece I wrote about Alan Dean Foster’s new novel, Sagramanda, which is forthcoming from Pyr in October.
Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro
The Spoken Alexandria Project has just made a podcast out of Tobias S. Buckell’s “Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro” articles, which originally appeared in Speculations.
Science fiction and fantasy author Tobias S. Buckell talks about a much-ignored period in the working writer’s career: after one makes that first major professional story sale, but before he or she has turned that exception into the rule. Buckell discusses “the benefits, the experience, and the dangers of being a Joe Blow Neopro,” along with “some strategies to move out of this stage in of our careers.”
Link.