TINAG UK

October 9, 2009

Here’s the preliminary cover for the British mass-market edition of This Is Not a Game. There’ll be some tweaking between now and the final version, but it’s mainly in place. The binary code actually spells out This Is Not a Game. How cool is that?

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Taos Toolbox 2010

October 9, 2009

Taos Toolbox, a master class in writing science fiction and fantasy, will take place June 6-19, 2010, in Taos Ski Valley. I will teach alongside Nancy Kress, and with special lecturer Carrie Vaughn. More details here.

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Shroud II: the Deliverance

October 7, 2009

An Italian scientist has succeeded in duplicating the Shroud of Turin, which he says exposes the Shroud as a fake.Garlaschelli reproduced the full-sized shroud using materials and techniques that were available in the middle ages. They placed a linen sheet flat over a volunteer and then rubbed it with a pigment containing traces of acid. […]

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Reviews Too Late: In Bruges

October 7, 2009

Imagine a gangster film in which nothing happens. That’s where I thought I was for the first half of this movie, in a film about what gangsters are like when they’re on vacation and not being gangsters. Not that this is a bad thing. The first half of In Bruges is the best part. Nothing […]

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Free Spaces

October 7, 2009

The first seven chapters of Implied Spaces are now available for free on the Baen webscription site. If you don’t have your own copy yet, you might want to give them a read. For the following eighteen chapters, however, you still have to buy the book.

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Resting Place

October 6, 2009

Here I am at my parents’ final resting place. “Resting” being an understatement, since their activities may also include flying, swirling, scudding, and fertilizing giant fir trees. My mom passed away a little over a year ago, and my father twelve years back. His ashes have since resided in a kind of shrine I built […]

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Who Ya Gonna Call?

October 2, 2009

It’s the trailer for Ghostbusters (1954), starring Bob Hope, Fred MacMurray, and Dean Martin. [thanks to David Boop}

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Nero’s Movable Feast

October 1, 2009

A few years back, when we were in Rome, we visited the Domus Aurea, the Golden House built by the Emperor Nero during the last years of his reign. This fabulous 300-room palace was the centerpiece of Nero’s entertainment empire— walls were plated with fabulous marbles, or ivory, or frescos. A large part of the […]

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The Brew That is True

October 1, 2009

From Candas Jane Dorsey, it’s Satchmo doing a duet with Danny Kaye (who holds up his end with remarkable verve). I detect the hand of Sylvia Fine in the lyrics.

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Doomsday Now!

September 29, 2009

Doctor Strangelove would seem to be my favorite movie. I believe I’ve seen it more often than any other film— I’ve watched Slim Pickens ride that H-Bomb to Laputa something like twenty times. It was Strangelove that popularized the notion of the Doomsday Device. (The Doomsday Bomb was actually conceived by Leo Szilard, who also […]

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