The Day the Music Died . . .

February 4, 2009

. . . was fifty years ago today. Guys, you’re still missed.

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Reviews Too Late: Lust, Caution

February 3, 2009

You know that if it’s a serious Chinese-language film, it’s going to be a tragedy. No one in China ever gets a happy ending. Ever. Not even fictional characters. That’s Rule #1. So I never figured I’d ever mistake this film for, say, It’s a Wonderful Life.Yet when Netflix informed me that Ang Lee had […]

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Returned to Life

February 2, 2009

So I was out of town for a few days, and when I returned I slipped into the hospital for some brief voluntary surgery. I had an annoying (but fortunately benign) cyst removed. I had hoped to return with the cyst in a jar of alcohol, but somehow this did not happen.I spent the weekend […]

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Kind Words

February 2, 2009

As my world slowly returns to something resembling normal, I find kind words on the Internet.First, Jane Lindskold says some nice things about Implied Spaces.And next, Worlds Without End passes on the word about This Is Not a Game. Pleasing things to encounter as I stagger back to life.

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News Anchor Kata

February 2, 2009

News Anchor Commercial-Break Kata.

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Sounds

January 26, 2009

I’m going to be away for a few days, and I don’t know whether I’ll have the chance to Internet while I’m away. (Jeez. I just made “Internet” a verb. Somebody stop me!)I’ll try not to invent any new verbs for the rest of this post.Since I won’t be talking to you, why don’t you […]

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And the Award Goes To . . .

January 25, 2009

The Aurealis Award for Best Anthology went to The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows, edited by Jonathan Strahan. My story “Pinocchio” happens to be listed in the Table of Contents. Coincidence? Perhaps not!

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Diaz, Delany, Dinner

January 23, 2009

Last night Daniel, Ty, and I drove up to Santa Fe to enjoy dinner with Samuel R. Delany and Junot Diaz. Junot was doing a reading at a local theater, after which Chip would interview him— the event was completely sold out, by the way, we could only get tickets in the next-to-last row of […]

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Man of the Year

January 20, 2009

Can I just pause for a moment and express my relief that we now have a president who speaks my language? By which I mean English. I was not an early Obama supporter (in my hopeless, quixotic way, I liked Bill Richardson, whose campaign has now ended in a grand jury investigation), but my modest […]

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Newly Reviewed

January 20, 2009

This Is Not a Game has been awarded a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly. Williams (The Rift) weaves intriguing questions about games, gamers and their relationships with real life into this well-paced near-future thriller. Game designer Dagmar specializes in creating “alternate reality” games that muddle the line between fantasy and reality. Trapped in riot-torn Jakarta, […]

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