I’m off to Worldcon in Montreal for the next week, so I thought I’d leave you with something to chew on.I was talking with genius New Mexico writer Daniel Abraham the other day, and once again he demonstrated why we all think he’s going to rule the world before he’s fifty. (And if not him, […]

The Subterranean Press edition of Songs of the Dying Earth has sold out! They won’t be printing any more. But look what Uncle Walter has found for you! A handful of copies remain in an obscure, hard-to-find online venue. If you don’t buy a copy now, you’ll have to wait a year or more for […]

My schedule for Anticipation, the Montreal Worldcon:When: Thu 14:00Location: P-513BTitle: Twitter, Facebook, My Space: Social Media and WritingSession ID: 766All Participants: James Strauss, Jenny Rae Rappaport, Mary RobinetteKowal, Walter Jon Williams, John PicacioModerator: Mary Robinette KowalDescription: What’s all the buzz about the new social media? Writingshort-short-short stories on Twitter??? Good grief! Is this networkingor a […]

Some really gorgeous pictures of Krakatoa during its current eruption. With an explosive force 13,000 times the power of the atomic bomb that annihilated Hiroshima, the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa killed more than 36,000 people and radically altered global weather and temperatures for years afterwards. The eruption was so violent and catastrophic that no active […]