Just a brief note to pimp a couple of cool links I’ve found recently: 1. Rudy Rucker, a Tor author, is offering a free download of his SF novel Postsingular on his website. Relevant details and download link is here. I’ve just started reading this one, but it’s very good stuff, which is what I’d [...]
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<– Chapter Eighteen / Chapter Twenty –> Sunset. Evening. Streaks of orange and molten gold stretching out like fingers, like tentacles over the city of Blackheath Grange from West to East, continent to sea; sun dipping beneath the tree and cliff line, casting long shadows over this tenuous human habitation. One by one, lanterns spark [...]
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There’s a great article in this month’s Wired magazine (16.02) by David Byrne, former member of the Talking Heads. Byrne interviewed Thom Yorke of Radiohead about that band’s marketing experiment with their latest album, In Rainbows. (In short, Radiohead leaked their album to the internet in advance of the CD going on sale January 1, [...]
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<– Chapter 17 / Chapter 19 –> On Thursday or whatever the locals call it, Ray rises late, having slept for hours. Too many hours, really, paying back the checks against he has written against his body in recent days. He wakes in the early afternoon with the heat of the sun on his face [...]
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I’m not sure exactly who is responsible for it, but Wincing at Light has been cited as an “External Link” under the Blook category at Wikipedia. (View the entry here.) Yes, that’s pretty flippin’ cool. And yes, I’ve already used my “expert” status to win at least one argument with my wife. D. P.S. I’m [...]
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25 Edit: Link has been fixed. Goddamned click pirates. D.
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Look, I don’t pretend to understand what the fuck this is yet, but it’s brilliant, lyrical, poetic, philosophical, extraordinarily well written and deeply emotionally satisfying. A bit hard to navigate initially, but genius nearly always is. Good writing like this makes me want to hurt people. I mean it. Gah. D.
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<– Chapter 16 / Chapter 18 –> He sleeps for two hours, maybe less. He doesn’t have a clock in his room. He was aware when he finally stumbled into bed that the gray light of dawn was filtering through the windows, but by that time he was so exhausted he didn’t have the energy [...]
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There’s a nice online review of A Vessel for Offering from Paul Blay at Pages Unbound. (Which, you know, I always dig. Nice reviews make baby Jesus happy.) Even better, Paul has some great suggestions for making A Vessel for Offering easier to navigate in blog format. Many of his (super legitimate) gripes are artifacts [...]
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It’s been brought to my attention that the Fictionwise link to my novel From the Hands of Hostile Gods is no longer working, so I’m bumping up the schedule a bit and hosting the PDF file here for free download. If you download it now, since you’re saving like $4 a few months earlier than [...]
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