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.)

31 More Images Of ( Read more... )

Jay Lake Pre-Mortem Readathon, review the first - A review of my novel Rocket Science.

Saturn's Hyperion: A Moon with Odd Craters - It looks like a wasp's nest to me. Which leads to some very disturbing story ideas…

Memorial for dead bees at Wilsonville Target - That's my Oregon.

Japanese earthquake literally made waves in Norway - The ( Read more... )

Saturday evening I was texting with ( Read more... )

As most of you reading this know, I have been working on Kalimpura lately. 21,900 words of first draft in the last three days, thanks to a bunch of time hanging around on airplanes. So far the prose is flowing well and the story is holding together nicely. Fred has introduced several interesting elements that were not in the outline, but generally ( Read more... )

A reader reacts to Rocket Science

You're Staring at My Story's Package (1) - Scrivener's Error on copyrights and book editions. Fascinating stuff, if you're into the business of books.

The Underwear Railroad: 1906 - A rather strange train photo from Shorpy.

Millis: Approaches to Interstellar Flight - Some fascinating stuff here for you skiffy ( Read more... )

A reader reacts to my novel Rocket Science - They liked it.

Ebooks and issues of entitlement - From Booklife, an excellent overview.

"Dear Media, from Science" (No.1) - This is a scream. (Via Bad Astronomy.)

Spray-on liquid glass - Weird and cool materials science. (Thanks to sheelangig.)

Zoologger: 'Living beach ball' is giant single cell - Weird ( Read more... )

A reader reacts to Rocket Science [ Powell's | Amazon ].

You can please all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time. I hope she likes Mainspring better.

Rocket Science [ Powell's | Amazon ] reviewed at Kat Dancing

It was also a pleasure to read some positive science fiction for a change; despite the narrator being literally beset with Nazis, bootleggers, Russian spies, and the government, it was overall a cheerful and uplifting little book. If you miss Heinlein's early stuff (you know, pre-incest- ( Read more... )

In a curious echo of Rocket Science (which is about Kansas and Mars), this video clip talks about Mars-style rock hunting in Kansas. Very cool, methinks.

I swear I'm going to sleep soon, just not yet.

Accidentally ran across this post from my old friend Chris Johnson (of the people outside my family with whom I still have some contact these days, I've only known jtdiii longer). He says some nice things about the novel, and some nice things about me, which were kind of strange (in a good way) to read ( Read more... )