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ARMORED (and) ready to roll

Armored-MM

Okay, it’s here at last. Armored, John Joseph Adams’s latest collection, is on the shelves, and I’ve got a story in it. In fact, I have the last story in it, which makes me very happy. Coming last in an anthology isn’t like coming last in a race–in fact, traditionally, it’s more the opposite–and as [...]

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Geodesica new

posted on 1 Mar 2006 at 10:17 am
Geodesica: Descent is out in the USA, in two forms: there’s the mass market paperback from Ace and the hardcover omnibus (with Geodesica: Ascent) from SF Book Club. Feedback from readers has been terrific. I’m really pleased that it seems

The Hanging Mountains review

posted on 14 Jan 2006 at 2:01 pm
Chris McDonough in Australian Bookseller & Publisher has this to say: “The Hanging Mountains has something of the decaying uncertainty of the fantasy novels of Chian Mieville and James Lovegrove. Since it is the third book in a series of f

a good start

posted on 13 Jan 2006 at 11:13 am
2006 gets off to a great start with the publication of my 20th novel, Geodesica: Descent, and the reviews are terrific. Harriet Klausner : “Sean Williams and Shane Dix…are great world builders, their prose lush, visual and so descriptive

Santa’s grab bag #2

posted on 17 Dec 2005 at 9:34 am
A couple of pleasant pre-Xmas items: (1) Geodesica: Ascent has been nominated for an Aurealis Award in the Science Fiction section. (Follow the link for the complete list of nominations.) Results announced in Brisbane Feb 25. (2) I’ve been aske

Santa’s (sad) sack #1

posted on 6 Dec 2005 at 5:41 pm
Herein a few newsworthy items I’ve accrued in recent weeks but haven’t done anything about, partly out of laziness, mostly out of not having enough time, thanks to (1) The Devoured Earth, which became half a book a couple of days ago. Tha

Resisting the obvious Sherlock Holmes pun.

posted on 17 Nov 2005 at 8:40 am
Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology (Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy) is now available for pre-order at Amazon.com (click here for cover, release date, etc). The Michael Whelan cover is quite a treat. Being in an anthology with so many inc

Where’s my cut? :-)

posted on 6 Nov 2005 at 9:21 pm
In further good news from the UK, Julia Gosling reports that secondhand prices of The Sky Warden & the Sun have hit an all-time high of US$78.52 on Amazon.com (Here‘s a link that worked today. I don’t know how long it will last.) I t

Thogged at last!

posted on at 8:56 am
It had to happen eventually–or so I always told myself, more than a little hopefully. Ansible 220 features the following: “THOG’S MASTERCLASS. _Words Fail Dept._ `Flast broadcast the nonverbal equivalent of a shrug.’ (_Geodesi

COSMOS and GEODESICA

posted on 27 Oct 2005 at 4:03 pm
“…energetic and concise. The plot rollicks along, propelling the reader into the action. Plush with imaginative detail…” That’s what Phillippe Cahill reckons of Geodesica: Ascent in the latest issue of Cosmos, words for

My Specusphere Profile *

posted on 21 Oct 2005 at 2:47 pm
… is available here. Thanks to Stephen Thompson for the exposure. Check out the site while you’re there. There’s a lot to see. S * An obscure reference for those “Scrubs” fans out there. I’m pretty sure they’