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Math and Beauty: Celebrating a Life
We lost Benoit Mandelbrot. This man fired the imagination of a species by bringing us a way to see the beauty in the mathematical world, and to link the mysteries of high-order math and science to the mysteries and awe of nature. When I first found out about the Madelbrot set, I trolled my world
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If You Care About the Sea
You might want to pick up Book View Café’s benefit anthology for gulf relief.  It’s only $4.99, available in a number of electronic formats. I have an original essay in it (almost more like an original rant) on the dangers of ignoring the ocean. There is original and reprint fiction, poetry, and other essays in
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Good Things in Threes
Most days, I still feel pretty invisible. I’m certainly not a famous science fiction writer, and no geek household name like Cory Doctorow or Charlie Stross that gets thrown around the interwebs regularly. But today is a very pleasant writer/futurist day from the point of being engaged in the bigger community conversation. ABCnews included quotes
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Squeel! New Ted Chiang
I was walking through Kirkland Honda when I looked down at the table in the waiting room and spotted a picture of a very contemplative and lovely Ted Chiang on the cover of City Arts magazine. Yes, Ted is lovely – writers aren’t supposed to overuse adjectives, but Ted is a lovely geek. Inside the
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Pardon my Absence
I have been quieter than usual in the Interwebs the past few weeks. All is not well. To be more exact, my youngest brother is not well. He’s gone and gotten a fairly rare and difficult cancer, which has provided me with time with him (yay!), sadness that he is doing as well as I
Latest Futurismic Column Up: Cancer and Science Fiction
There was a lot of news about cancer in my life in the last few weeks, so I chose that to write about for my Today’s Tomorrows column at Futurismic. I found it a really interesting topic to research – there’s a TON of material, and a lot of it gives conflicting advice. New information
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The iPad: After Week Two
This is just a quick update, and then I’ll do my next iPad piece in John DeNardo’s Mind Meld on the topic next week, returning this blog to it’s regularly scheduled programming. I still love the iPad. Promised experiment on reading: Not as good as the Kindle, but it is readable. Hint: turn down the
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The iPad: After Week 1
I’ve had my iPad for a week now, and I promised I’d blog about it. So here’s blog #1. In general, I like it a lot. I love Scrabble (I know – BORING – but I do). Maybe it’s the writer in me. The household teenager takes it for Tetris. Clearly a casual gaming hit.
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Nebula Noms and Hugo Podcasts?
The Nebula short list is out. I’m really quite pleased with what is on the list (although – as always – slightly disappointed that some works which I nominated didn’t make it). In addition to some short stories like Kij Johnson’s “Spar” that I loved, two of my novel reading recommendations made the final ballot:Â
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