I'm typing these words from Perth airport, after a wonderful time at the Perth Festival; my Australiasian tour for Walkaway has four more stops to go: tomorrow and Wednesday, I'll be in Melbourne; then it's off to Sydney; the Adelaide Festival; Wellington Writers and Readers Week and The NetHui one-day copyright event. See you there!
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5:15 pm Sun
Feb 25, 2018
Hey, Melbourne! I'm coming to see you this week (Sydney, Adelaide and Wellington: you're next!)
San Diego's Mysterious Galaxy bookstore is saved!
With just days to go before it would have to close its doors forever, San Diego's beloved science fiction bookstore Mysterious Galaxy has found a new location and new owners: Jenni Marchisotto and Matthew Berger have bought the store and will run it at its new home, 3555 Rosecrans St. Suite #107 San Diego, CA […]
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Radicalized is one of the Wall Street Journal's top sf books of 2019!
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DJ Riko is back with the 18th annual Merry Mixmas mashup album!
We love DJ Rijo's annual Merry Mixmas albums, and for the 18th consecutive year, the legendary mashup DJ has released an album-length mashup of Christmas rarities (MP3), just in time for your holiday parties!
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10 gifts you can get now that don't need shipping
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This smart notebook saves your scribbles with a simple scan of your SmartPhone
For some folks, writing notes by hand is just plain easier, but having to re-type them later can be a huge bore, not to mention time-sink. The guys from Rocketbook successfully merged the best parts of analog and digital note-taking with their Everlast notebook awhile back. And now, that tech just got a lot more […]
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Save 40% on this innovative desktop toy and card game
There are fast-paced card games, and some of them even require enough dexterity for a mini-workout (like Skip-Bo or Snap). But there’s nothing quite like the Mokuru® Card Game, which uses an already addictive fidget toy as the centerpiece for a cutthroat game of tabletop challenges. The game is named for the toy that gets […]
