I wanted to take a brief opportunity to pimp a couple of links that I’ve recently become aware of. First off, I strongly encourage you to get in on the ground floor of The Pageant of the Transmundane, a fiction blog that just started up, which features the work of Huon Longman. Huon was kind [...]
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Indiana Memorial Union — photo by Kagan Tuncay When I set about to write Agnosis, I’d just finished reading a book called The Rule of Four, a murder mystery/thriller set on the campus of Princeton University. To be honest, I liked the idea of paying homage to one’s alma mater in fictional form, especially (and [...]
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The astute among you might have noticed that I didn’t get Chapter 5 of Agnosis posted until Tuesday morning, thus missing my Monday Guarantee(tm). It was a holiday. What can I say? The even more astute among you may have noticed that I’ve slowed down tremendously on my blog posting as of late. This doesn’t [...]
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I’ve been battling a resurgence of insomnia lately. Since the dreaded bout with encephalitic meningitis a few years ago, I periodically go through these phases where I’ll sleep three or four hours a night for a couple of weeks, then more or less physically collapse and catch up on my sleep schedule all at once. [...]
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So I spent yesterday up to my eyeballs in the guts of Agnosis. Why would I do this, you ask? Well, it turns out that I queried/partialed a certain major SFF publisher about this novel almost a full year ago — an act which I had largely forgotten because, well, it was almost a full [...]
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In a quintessentially Web 2.0 statement, Cory Doctorow wrote in a June 2006 article for Locus magazine (“Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet”) the fundamental mantra for modern fiction writers: An SF writer’s biggest problem is obscurity, not piracy. Of all the people who chose not [...]
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<– Chapter 21 / Chapter 1 –> He races through the city at night, down streets and alleys all but deserted, encountering only rare clusters of celebrants, listless and confused, abandoned by the presence of the mhuruk-a. Always forward, guided by the light tipped spire of the Whelemat complex. He chases its image against the [...]
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<– Chapter 20 / Chapter 22 –> By dawn, he is exhausted, dazed with fatigue, dizzy with knowledge. He is a creature emerging from the dank night of a cave into the blinding light of spring, of day, of awareness. He feels himself unrecognizable, a temporary resident of his own body–a body he has ignored [...]
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I like software. I like to play with shiny little utilities that are well designed, have small computing footprints, and do what they claim to do simply and well. Writer and programmer Simon Haynes, author of the Hal Spacejock series, has a nice collection of utilities for writers and readers available for free (FREE) at [...]
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Today, I’ve been thinking about social networking as it’s unfolding within the concept of Web 2.0. See, when I think of Web 2.0, I think of things like open source software, wikis, blogs, creative commons and free, tweakable content — a bunch of people working together and contributing their unique talents and insights to make [...]
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