Karl Schroeder's new novel,
Sun of Suns is the first book in a thrilling new steampunk/ post-singularity/ space-opera trilogy that is the finest and weirdest worldbuilding I can remember reading.
Virga is a world made of a giant pressurized fullerene balloon with an artificial sun at its center. — Read the rest
Karl Schroeder, the author of many fantastic sf novels (most recently the swashbuckling space-pirates post-Singularity book Sun of Suns) has written an excellent vingnette for the WorldChanging series on sustainability in Canada, CanadaChanging. In it, Karl writes about the way that Inuit communities in Nunavut might find the Internet to be a force for independence and a threat to their identity all at once. — Read the rest
Nalo Hopkinson sent me this photo of my pal and collaborator Karl Schroeder accepting the Sunburst Award (presented by Michelle Sagara) for my short story collection, A Place So Foriegn and Eight More on my behalf at last night's ceremony at Toronto's Merril Collection sf library. — Read the rest
My short story collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More, won the Sunburst Award for the best Canadian sf book of the year. There's a ceremony commemorating the event on the 23d of September in Toronto, at the Merril Collection. — Read the rest
Joey "AccordionGuy" DeVilla attended my reading last night at the Merril Collection; he's posted great notes on the event:
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I arrived about ten minutes into Cory's session, during a reading of what I later found out was Human Readable. Every seat in the Merril room was full; many were occupied by what The Onion might term "high-profile Area Nerds".
I've put up a page called "12 Reasons to Pre-Order Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom," with blurbs by twelve people telling you why they think you should buy it. Here're the blurbers:
And the blurbs are great, like this one:
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My pal and sometime-co-author Karl Schroeder's new novel, "Permanence" is finally out. I had the good fortune to workshop this book over the course of a year or so, and it's wonderful. The book is set against a backdrop of copyright-maximialist galactic civilization in which all sensoria is mediated, and depending on which license fees you pay, you see and hear different parts of the real world (i.e., — Read the rest
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction. I co-wrote the Guide last year with Karl Schroeder, who's launched an excellent Squishdot site for discussion of the advice in the book. I think it's a hell of a book, and the site's a little sparse at the moment, but still way, way cool. — Read the rest
Ventus, the fantastic sf novel by my pal and former collaborator, Karl Schroeder, is a New York Times "Best Book of 2001." Here's the Locus Magazine announcement: Link. Here's Karl's site, which includes two short but hallucinogenic excerpts from the book: Link. — Read the rest
48 pages of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction," which Karl Schroeder and I wrote last year, are scanned and available for your perusal on Amazon.LinkDiscuss
