Tor Books has provided some very generous support to JayWake - Thank you Tom, Beth and everyone.

Deadlines - Writers talking about their own deaths. (Thanks to AH, via ( Read more... )

Interview with Mary Robinette Kowal - Cool stuff. She is always sharp. (Via Marta Murvosh.)

Photoshopped Covers Of Book Titles With A Letter Missing Make My Books-And-Wordplay Loving Heart Go Pitter-Patter - Hahahahah. (Via Lisa Costello.)

Oldest Grave Decorated With Flowers Discovered In Israel

Scientists Coax Brain to Regenerate Cells Lost in ( Read more... )

Bibliotheca Alexandrina: The Great Library of Alexandria Reborn? - This is rather a wow. (Via ( Read more... )

The Ghastlycrud Zombies - An interesting and entertaining Kickstarter. (Pointed out by ( Read more... )

Speculative Book Review likes Green - Quite a bit, actually.

A review of the recent ebook reprint of my short story "Hitching to Aurora" - I think they liked it.

Style is Story is Style - Jeff VanderMeer is wise.

Launch Pad 2011 is open for applications - Astronomy workshop for writers. I did this in 2008. It was an awesome experience.

From Lab ( Read more... )

Et si la crise de la Sf n'existait pas vraiment - Some French commentary on the current generation of SF.

Life in pictures - In which I make a guest appearance as an Ewok on Julie Ann's blog.

You can draw, and probably better than I can - Another of Roger Ebert's meditations on life. I especially liked this bit on sketching: Begin with a proper ( Read more... )

McSweeney's reviews Good Night, Moon - Snerk.

Mammatus Clouds Over Olympic Valley - I've actually seen these in real life once, in Texas. It makes for a very weird sky.

Locomotive Breath: 1906 - A cool shot of Salem, MA from Shorpy. Mmm, trains.

Switchable Metamaterial Makes Itself Invisible - A metamaterial that turns itself off could ( Read more... )

The trade paperback edition of my novel Green goes on sale this week - Maybe time for some book love?

Marissa Lingen comments on Green - Including, unusually, critiquing the dedication. Also, the comments section is interesting.

Anyone Home? - Salom Futura on last-man-on-earth stories, including my own Sunspin short "A Long Walk Home". I find her ( Read more... )

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Boondocks Fantasy reviewed - Not so much with the liking of my story "Jefferson's West".

Space Stasis: What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation. - Neal Stephenson on space technology. An objection to this essay from Stirling Newberry. (Nicked here from james_nicoll.)

Twenty reasons why it's kicking off everywhere - Some social ( Read more... )