I am pleased to announce that this past week editor Gardner Dozois acquired my novella "Rock of Ages" for Year's Best Science Fiction 31. The piece original appeared in METAtropolis: Green Space, published by Audible.com and edited by Ken Scholes and myself. It follows on my stories in the first two volumes, and intertwines with Ken's stories from ( Read more... )

METAtropolis: Green Space - The new audiobook is up for pre-release. Check out the cover art and table of contents. Stories from Elizabeth Bear, Tobias S. Buckell, Mary Robinette Kowal, Seanan McGuire, Karl Schroeder, Ken Scholes and me.

Time Travel and Gender - Cora Buhlert with more on this topic.

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments - Hah! ( ( Read more... )

A reader reacts to Kalimpura - They liked it.

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HANNAH GREEN: Propelling Technology Through Fiction - A young journalist covers the Hyperloop, in part by interviewing SF writers, myself included.

What kills cancer patients - It's not what you think. But yes, this. One reason I've lived so long with Stage IV metastatic colon cancer is that these things have been done properly to, by, and for me ( Read more... )

Audible.com has two more of my books up: Rocket Science & Death of a Starship

Rowling and "Galbraith": an authorial analysis - This is pretty interesting stuff around language geekery and automated textual analysis.

Your Favorite Movies Laid Out as Vintage Treasure Maps - This is weird and cool. (Snurched from Steve Buchheit.)

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Jay Lake Pre-Mortem Read-a-thon, Review the third: Escapement

Waterloo Productions is pleased to announce an advanced screening of their documentary Lakeside

AISFP 216 - Chicon 7 “Moral Ambiguity in Science Fiction” with Charles Stross, Jay Lake, Nancy Kress, Lissa Price and Bryan Thomas Schmidt - A podcast from last year's Worldcon, including ( Read more... )

Audiobook review: METAtropolis, edited by John Scalzi - Cool.

Space Magic audiobook released! - David Levine brings a project to fruition.

What crashed through the roof at a South Park home? - Police at the scene determined the piece of metal may have fallen from an "aircraft or a really big bird that had stolen a lead bar."

Counterfeit Food ( Read more... )

Coming Soon: “Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction” - A project of which I was a part. I provided the chapter on steampunk. Unfortunately, I did not inquire as to the stable of my co-authors.

Jay Lake and Austin Sirkin in Conversation - Locus with a podcast recorded last spring at ICFA. We talk steampunk, mostly.

We are here to protect you. We are ( Read more... )

Continuing to work as I can. Currently dividing my time between two projects. One is editing duties for METAtropolis: Green Space, which I am interchanging with the mighty ( Read more... )

Podcast

Yesterday, Mendelspod put up a 20+ minute podcast interview with me and Dad about cancer and the Whole Genome Sequencing. We listened to it in the car on the way down from Austin. I had a terrible cold the day we recorded it, and don't sound like myself at all. Still, my comments were clear and cogent for the most part. Worth a listen if ( Read more... )