That’s the question asked here. In the last few years, I’ve noticed more and more that science fiction has taken a bit of a turn to the right. I’ve also seen more than a few reviews lambasting those authors for their views — which seems to matter not a whit Read more…
Patrick Hester and John DeNardo grill me on the 25th episode of the SF Signal podcast. You should check it out.
I had really nice comment today on my latest blog post: “With your ability, certainly you have learned praises before but I just want to involve to the many who have thanked you for what you’ve attained. Your work are one of a kind and show great insight. Thanks for Read more…
Over at Book Chick City I’m being featured in their series “Where Stories Are Made,” where authors get to do a mini photo-essay about the environment where they actually do their writing. So you all can get to see the (clean parts of the) office at home and at the Read more…
Progressives really get steamed when people point to the Tea Party and/or Libertarians as the spiritual successors to the last great anti-establishment mass movements of the 60s and 70s. To them I provide the following interview with Starchild, a San Francisco erotic services provider and Libertarian candidate for school board Read more…
Here’s the podcast. They review their best-of-2010 lists and I actually got props from two of their panelists for Heretics. I’m starting to get nervous, what if John doesn’t like the final book? Also, watch that podcast, I’ll be recording an interview for them this week. I will let everyone Read more…
So Charlie Stross has posted a lament about the dearth of Utopias in SF of late. If you follow my blog, you may already have a good idea of what I think about that. There are several issues I have with his post. (Probably all having to do with us Read more…
From another Steve I have linkage to Jeff VanderMeer showing some of the process of revision he goes through, sending pages of his manuscript to red pencil nirvana. It’s interesting to me, because I’m somewhat a polar opposite when it comes to revision. If I didn’t ask for critiques from Read more…
Now that I’m done and I can spare a few hundred words for my blog, I’d thought I’d give a little recap on what I think this NaNoWriMo thing was good for, despite some asinine anal-retentive elitist asshat skeptics out there: First, what lessons this provides a newbie author: The Read more…
Plagiarism and Privilege at Making Light. Scalzi on MFA Programs and what is left untaught. (With followup.) Charlie Stross is dissatisfied with Steampunk. (Yes, I’m late to this particular party.) First thing we do, let’s kill all the writers.