Oh Ursula, Ursula, Why?

On this, and this, and this, which I learned about from this. In the comment thread to the first post, Mr. Burt, the snarling copyright poodle of SFWA, claims that Fair Use is often recommended to be 5-10% of a work. Which, of course, raises an interesting question. Nick Mamatas notes how this is [...]

Deadlines Whoosh Past

But they’re not firm, and I may get to those projects tomorrow.
I’m listening to the latest Björk release, Volga. I shall have to buy it, it’s quite cool. There are always a couple of tracks on every one of Björk’s albums which are, for me, perfect SF-writing fodder. In this case, it’s both mixes [...]

Memory Bank

My memory is starting to give out. Last year, I was able to keep track of everything that was happening in all of my classes without any trouble. Now, in all the classes for which I have two sections, I have mixed up at least something in each class. Of course, I should be keeping [...]

Miéville on Floating Utopias

China Miéville’s article Floating Utopias, or at least the bit online, was a good read.

Cheap Brain Implants! (But Read the Fine Print in your EULA…)

Oh yes. New story. For the call for the Mundane SF issue of Interzone, because while I don’t think SF needs to be Mundane, it’s after all just a set of constraints. I learnt stuff from full tonal writing fugues, I learned stuff from composing using serialist procedures, I learned stuff composing with twelve-sided dice, [...]

Why Diamonds? Evolution, Instinctual Niches, Advertising, and the Killer App…

Some people might be thinking all I ever post about is my writing process. It’s true, I’ve been posting about that a lot recently, since I’ve had my head down and been pushing hard on that front.
But I do have other thoughts bouncing around in my head.
One of Mark’s posts on Scribes & Scoundrels got [...]

Rudy Rucker’s Postsingular Launch/Art Show

Hey all. The art show for Rudy Rucker’s new novel, Postsingular, is happening on November 9th-11th at the amusingly named Live Worms Gallery. He’ll be there all weekend, but will be joined by Kage Baker for readings on the Saturday, in the late afternoon, for those of you over in San Francisco.
Durn ocean. I [...]

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