Goodreads First Reads: Kalimpura by Jay Lake

Is This Grade School a 'Cult'? (And Do Parents Care?) - The Atlantic on Waldorf schools. ( Read more... )

Green and Kalimpura Sweepstakes! - Tor.com celebrates my forthcoming book release.

An ABC proof too tough even for mathematicians - In Kyoto, a solitary thinker unveils a solution that’s either a dizzying advance - or a blind alley. Outsiders in? (Snurched from Daily Idioms, Annotated.)

A Shape-Shifting Smartphone Touch Screen - A microfluidic ( Read more... )

A while back, I announced a Kalimpura caption contest [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]. Unfortunately, chemo brain got in the way and I have been quite dilatory in wrapping up the voting poll.

Consider it now wrapped:


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An unexpected foreign rights check in the mail this week, as well as an expected-but-no-idea-when contract and a hoped-for-but-unexpected contract. This business is so weird. I made more writing money in three days than I've made in months. In order, Mainspring earned out in Germany in its first reporting period (or first year, I'm actually not ( Read more... )

First of all, my recent Asimov's steampunk lost colony religious novella, "The Stars Do Not Lie", has been acquired by Gardner Dozois for next year's edition of Year's Best Science Fiction. I am quite pleased, and also more than slightly boggled to be included at novella length. I'm pretty familiar with word count budgets in anthologies, after all ( Read more... )

Another chemo done. As expected, they're getting tougher. The Vectibix rash is already firing up across my forehead, and intensifying on my chest and back where it never went away. I figure for my face to be a major disaster in another day or two. Likewise the emotional and cognitive effects are powerful right now. A lot of stress in the family, ( Read more... )

Spent about two and half hours revising my Green novelette "A Stranger Comes to Kalimpura". Oddly enough, I landed at 14,900 words, out of an originally targeted 15,000 words. Funny how that works out ( Read more... )

Have you voted in the Kalimpura caption contest voting poll?

Outlawed by Amazon DRM - A couple of days a go, my friend Linn sent me an e-mail, being very frustrated: Amazon just closed her account and wiped her Kindle. Without notice. Without explanation. This is DRM at it’s worst. If you think Amazon is your friend, you are sadly mistaken. A ( Read more... )

Have you voted in the Kalimpura caption contest voting poll?

Cliff Nest> - The shadow hunters of underground Thailand. Wow.

A Space Shuttle on the Streets of Los Angeles - Cool time lapse video.

Fish Can Cloak, Become Invisible to Predators - Silver-colored fish, such as herring, sardines and sprat, are bending the laws of physics, according to ( Read more... )

Have you voted in the Kalimpura caption contest voting poll?

The Cranky Cave Troll - This explains the attack in the Mines of Moria far better than Peter Jackson ever did. Heh heh heh.

The 10 Most Defining Performances in the History of Genre Television - You'll probably quibble with the picks, but it's a fun list.

Claws out for pilfering ( Read more... )