I’ll be at Orycon November 9-11 at the Red Lion hotel in Jantzen Beach, in Portland, Oregon. Friday, November 9 5:00 PM: Must Reads for the Environmentally Aware – Overton Room 7:00 PM: Writer Retreats – Pettygrove Saturday, November 10 10:00 AM: Artificial People in Science Fiction – White Stag 11:00 AM:Â Meet B-Cubed Press …
This post is a lightly-edited version of one that went out in my newsletter. If you like it, please consider signing up. I send out about ten newsletters a year. They include posts like this, reading recommendations, and sometimes some of my writing. My son just came home from fighting wildfires in Washington State. The …
Fire and Water…Musings on Climate and Governance Read More »
Every once in a while, a book’s ideas and presentation will wake me from sound sleep and make me fumble out of bed and grab coffee at an odd hour. This does not happen often anymore; as a writer I am often ever-so-slightly distanced by being able to see the bones of a book. But …
Reading Recommendation: Overstory, by Richard Powers Read More »
Friday Genetic Manipulation and Made-to Order Species: Biotech in SF 10:00am – 11:00am @ Cascade 10 Brenda Cooper (M), Nancy Kress, K. C. Alexander, Fonda Lee Futurism 101 11:00am – 12:00pm @ Cascade 9 Peter N. Glaskowsky (M), Brenda Cooper, PJ Manney Speculative Poetry 2:00pm – 3:00pm @ Cascade 12 Brenda Cooper, Cat Rambo, Alexandra …
I’m really excited to share some news. If you read my newsletter, you heard this story.  If you don’t, and you want new stories about once a month, you can sign up here. Here’s my news…..I finished my first-ever work as a fiction editor. This project, the anthology A Year Without a Winter, was full …
Last night, mom and dad and I sat in a favorite restaurant in Mesa, Arizona, and swapped holiday stories while a musician sang a mix of holiday, country, old folk, and hippie songs. The songs were full of the past, and prompted me to ask my parents about their favorite holiday memories. Mom’s reminded me …
So the first draft of Keepers (the sequel to Wilders) is turned in! I track my time, and it took 255 hours to get the book to this point. The first entry was in February. So that’s 9 months, at roughly 28 hours a month, although in reality there were three big pushes and much …
Sat Nov 18 10:00am-11:00am Autonomous robots and intelligence When we should actually start worrying about robots as a fellow species rather than appliances – when do they get rights and when should they? Sat Nov 18 11:00am-12:00pm Ghost in the Machine or Grandpa? Is a personality upload a real person? Can they vote? What do …
The Silver Ship and the Sea has been included on a storybundle. That means you can get it — the new 10th anniversary version – and a lot of other great fiction from writers like Jody Lynn Nye, Robert Sawyer, Kevin J, Anderson, and more. Pay as little as $15.00 for 13 ebooks. Some portion …
Science Matters: Great Deal on Adventure Science Fiction! Read More »
I’m pleased to share the beautiful cover that Wordfire Press designed for the 10th anniversary edition of The Silver Ship and the Sea: I love the simplicity of the cover, and wanted to share it.  Thanks to Janet McDonald for a great cover design. If you want  copy, the best deal for this new version …
