Category Archives: science fiction

Carl Brandon Society

Posted on June 13, 2013 by
Bloodchildren:Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars

Today (before midnight Pacific Daylight Time) John Scalzi,  Justine Larbalestier and Scott Westerfeld, and @ArachneJericho are matching contributions to the Carl Brandon Society Book View Café also supports the Carl Brandon Society. All the proceeds of Bloodchildren: Stories by the … Continue reading →


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Webcomics of Interest

Posted on June 2, 2013 by

(Picture from here.) I follow about four hundred web comics. A bunch of them can be seen here. Fortunately, the update schedule for most of these brings it down to about fifty or so a day. Is that a lot? … Continue reading →


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A Sense of Infinite Possibility

Posted on May 23, 2013 by

Some mornings I wake up stunned by what the human race is on the verge of understanding and doing. Those are the days when I really regret that I’m not immortal. I’m not interested in the immortality of a Roger … Continue reading →


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Notes From The Nebula Awards Weekend – the “good parts” version

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

Whenever the Nebula Awards Weekend, that surreal and magical time when the Science Fiction Writers of America wax nostalgic, hopeful, and celebratory, are held on the same coast as the one I live on, I happily attend. I’ve never been … Continue reading →


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BVC Announces Conscientious Inconsistencies by Nancy Jane Moore

Posted on May 14, 2013 by
Conscientious Inconsistencies

A Collection of Short Fiction by Nancy Jane Moore $4.99 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-258-7 “Break all rules, including these.” So advises one of the stories in this reprint collection. These stories jump — conscientiously — from a homage to Alexandre Dumas to an … Continue reading →


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Writing the Near Future

Posted on April 30, 2013 by
The Red: First Light by Linda Nagata

Certain activities strike me as unwise risks—big wave surfing for example, or scaling a sheer cliff without ropes, or writing near-future fiction. All stories age. Even those set in the author’s present, that accurately reflect the time and place in … Continue reading →


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The Rehearsal

Posted on April 22, 2013 by

by Ursula K. Le Guin Sitting in on a rehearsal is a strange experience for the author of the book the play is based on. Words you heard in your mind’s ear forty years ago in a small attic room … Continue reading →


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Stage Adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness

Posted on April 12, 2013 by
Left Hand of Darkness Playbill

Portland Playhouse and Hand2Mouth Theatre team up to stage a new adaptation of Ursula K. LeGuin’s 1969 gender-bending tale of love, jealousy, power and betrayal. Sometimes, we have to leave our own time and place to understand ourselves. Hand2Mouth Theatre and Portland … Continue reading →


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A Padawan’s Journal #49: Reality Informs Fiction
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Posted on April 10, 2013 by
Jax Pavan and I-5YQ

Every once in a while, even in the world of media tie-ins, I get to field questions that go beyond the expected “Do you like writing Star Wars novels?” “Which character is the most fun to write?” I did several … Continue reading →


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One World, Many Stories

Posted on April 9, 2013 by

From time to time, I take my pile of newly-read books and post reviews. As I sat down recently to do this, I realized that not a single one of them was a true stand-alone. They were either the first … Continue reading →


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