While we're on the subject of the Doctor it occurs to me that Doctor Who is the only work of science fiction of which I am aware other than Justin Leiber's Beyond Rejection and (ahem) my own books that deals with the plain and medically evident fact that human cognition and identity and personality is based at least as much in the meat and its ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I went to Logee's with friends. (Logee's, for those of your unfamiliar with it, is a southern New England institution, especially in wintertime. It's a nursery... but it's a nurdery that has allowed its greenhouses to be absolutely overrun with giant plants. Here's my flickr set, most of which is from last year's visit. batwrangler has much more ( Read more... )

Suvudu has an interview with me, and a Jacob's Ladder giveaway.

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It's Book Day!

I shall be signing at Pandemonium Books in Cambridge (MA) tonight at 7, and if you can I'd love to have you meet me there. If you can't, Grail is available all over the internet, and from most local retailers.

And since it is book day, here is your Grail spoiler thread.


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1) Bm, even the cheater version, is farther away than I think it is. Also, the non-cheater version of F (which I am finally attempting to learn for reals this time after many abortive efforts) is extra hard when you have crooked fingers ( Read more... )

Those lovely folks at Suvudu have posted the first fifty pages of my far-future SF novel Dust, with a nice little note from my lovely editor, Anne Groell Keck.

Since book two of the Jacob's Ladder trilogy, Chill, has just been nominated for the Dick Award (that never, ever gets old) and book three, Grail, comes out on the 22nd of this month, this ( Read more... )

Publishers Weekly loves me:

Grail
Elizabeth Bear, Spectra, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-59109-5This deftly told story completes the Jacob's Ladder trilogy begun in Dust and Chill. The Conns and the other inhabitants of an ancient wandering spaceship face their last and greatest challenge. They've finally found a habitable planet, but ( Read more... )

I bring you so many good things today (and one sad one)! As if the universe is joining me in celebrating sending back the last few corrections on Grail (found an embarrassing continuity error at the last minute; hope I didn't break anything else fixing it, since I broke the continuity fixing something else) I have cover art for two other books in ( Read more... )

A good C.E. is a joy forever.

That is all.