Maples

October 12, 2012

There is exactly one canyon in New Mexico where you can find maple trees, trapped here by changing climate after the last Ice Age. This is clearly the time of year to go see them. We went about ten days ago, but the leaves were just starting to turn.  We returned yesterday to find the […]

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The Tern Schooner

October 11, 2012

Behold!  The Tern Schooner, the latest in the ebook reissues of my old sailing series, is now available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords. The book was originally published by Dell as The Yankee, in the same month and from the same publisher as The Yankee by Dana Fuller Ross. (Because Dell was just […]

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Quizzical

October 10, 2012

Wow, we have only a single winner for the Boolean Gate quiz.  Congratulations, Steve Halter!  Email me your address, and a signed copy of the uncorrected proofs will soon be winging their way to you. Here are the questions and answers: 1.  Who are the three historical figures depicted on the cover? Mark Twain, JP […]

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Boolean Quiz

October 9, 2012

Lo!  It is the cover of The Boolean Gate, my new novella from Subterranean Press, available now for pre-order in a signed, limited edition! You can also pre-order it at Amazon and divers other places, I believe. The price is a mere $38.  But if you’re short a few dollars, don’t despair!  I have a […]

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Taos Toolbox 2013!

October 8, 2012

I’m happy to announce that the next Taos Toolbox, the master class for science fiction and fantasy, will take place July 28-August 10, 2013, at Taos Ski Valley. Teaching will be Nancy Kress, Walter Jon Williams, and special lecturer Melinda Snodgrass. The application period begins December 1.  Mark your calendars! (and special thanks to Toolbox […]

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Golden Clouds

October 7, 2012

I’ve spent a few days up the mountain looking at scenery like this, an aspen grove up above 10,000 feet, where the autumn leaves look like golden clouds sitting just beneath the rim of the sky. I would have been uploading pictures all along, but I forgot the cable that connects my camera to the […]

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I Am In My Happy Place

October 4, 2012

I’m up on top of a mountain, surrounded by aspens that have turned a brilliant gold, and breathing air that tastes like champagne.  (Well actually it tastes more like pine, but you know what I mean.) Posts may be scarce for the next few days.

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Echo Deco

October 2, 2012

Here’s a photo of Chicago’s NBC building taken at Worldcon a month or so ago. With its vertical lines, symmetry, setbacks, towering mast, and flying buttresses (!!!), the building is a clear example of Art Deco. Except that this building dates from the wrong era.  Art Deco was created in the 1920s and died (as […]

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Magic

September 27, 2012

I’m sure some of you know that I used to be a stage magician.  Not a particularly brilliant one, it must be admitted, but I did get up in front of numerous audiences and did an actual act in which things dis-apparated and re-apparated and odd shiny objects floated through the air.  (In fact, I […]

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Out Of The Past: Ambassador of Progress

September 26, 2012

  I thought I’d talk about Ambassador of Progress, my first science fiction novel, which (as I mentioned in an earlier post) is newly available in ebook form via Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Smashwords.  (Plus iBooks and Kobo and Baker and Taylor and other places for which I have no actual links.) The most […]

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