Train Sabotage in France

Sometimes it seems like folks such as William Gibson and Bruce Sterling might be right in having turned to non-SF in recent years, since, after all, the world is just as surprising as cyberpunk was. Like, for example, with this orchestrated sabotage on the French railway system reported by BBC news:
France’s high-speed TGV rail [...]

On Ze Plate

… ‘zere is too much!

I’m a little behind on grading, but not as much as I thought I would be a week ago.
I have an unknown amount of textbook-editing left to go, but at least three full books I’ll need to proofread (possibly more than once for one of them) in the next few weeks. [...]

Back to Life…

Up for air again. I haven’t posted much of substance lately, and I’m not (really) about to start now. The editing gig I took on has hit that chunk on the exponential curve of increasing involvement where time for sleep begins to erode, where I stop even the minimal amount of tidying I try to [...]

Eight Days

The title of this post has nothing to do with how long I haven’t posted here — though it may well be 8 days — but with my newest story project. I’m finally writing a story about (edit: Crown) Prince Sado, aka Sado Saeja. He’s a particularly unusual case in the Joseon Dynasty, whose story [...]

Recent Readings & Stuff, Late August, September & October ‘07

Books

The Blank Slate by Stephen Pinker may not blow away people with some real familiarity with the sorry state of affairs in the human sciences — like a friend who shall remain nameless (unless she wishes to comment here) and who said that the criticisms made in the book were not uncommon among grad [...]

Free Stuff to Read

Want a chance to win a free copy of Elizabeth Hand’s new book Generation Loss? Enter at:
Abebooks Elizabeth Hand Book Contest
(Ganked from Der Small Beer/LCRW blognotblog thingy.)
While you’re waiting to find out whether you win, check out the wonderful Tina Connolly’s wonderful story “Moon at the Starry Diner.” She wrote this story at Clarion West [...]

Athlete’s Foot, My Past Life, and I Look Chinese?

Somewhere along the way — probably in Japan — I picked this up, but it didn’t flare until a week ago. It’s been a busy week, so it took until yesterday to get to the doctor’s office. I suppose there might be a cream I could get over the counter, but I don’t know what [...]

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