I have an experiment bubbling. Later this summer, in June or July, I am going to write a novella to publish digitally. Tons of my reading material focuses on the changing publishing industry, which, contrary to doomsayers, will not vanish nor become marginalized. It's got a lot of momentum. It's got a lot of supporters ( Read more... )

I could ramble about this but at the moment I'll make a note of it for anyone who wants to pursue the essays this week. Tor.com is having a Dystopia Week and doing pretty good at running the whole gamut of the subject, from books I've never heard of! to young adult dystopia to the Wheel of Time's Seanchan.

After rereading The Great Hunt, hell yeah ( Read more... )

People like to say that, anyway, and from Tor.com, here is a list of many of the times people has said it will be gone forever. Pick a year!

SAC's cyberspace as a reality sim using the Xbox Kinect. O_O!

I've given my sixth finished book, Instability to four people: my friend Joanne, my friend Kalzarius, my sister and my dad. Neither Kalzarius nor my sister have started reading it. Bleh. Joanne was giving me "this has ideas but the execution is off" and Dad just gave me a "I have no idea what's going on" and "wtf". It certainly appears I'm still ( Read more... )

This isn't an exceedingly holy crap interesting chat, but it is interesting to see some perspective on how things have changed and how in some ways they haven't.

1978 chat

From my friend @transceiverfreq over on Twitter, I find a link to a series of extremely disturbing and wondrous for people who are me critters from across the world. Holy hell!

The 16 Largest Insects in the World

This one looks like fun. Stolen from La Reine Noire. Under a cut, because it's enormous, but ask me odd questions about surprising characters. :D

( Pick a character, any character )

Oh yeah. Take a look at the enormous list of different names of migrant neighhorhoods. Trippy cool.

Arrival Cities

I have some bizarre art for you, exactly what the title states. I think the whole site is worth looking at but there's so much there I could spend hours.

Surreal Japanese Art via World SF Blog