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Walt Dangerfield Speaks
35 days until Buyout. Since there are 35 chapters in the book, and each one is introduced by the voice of Walt Dangerfield (his homage and pseudonym), I’ll be posting Walt’s rants and ruminations as a countdown until the book appears. Read on…
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Booklist on Buyout
From the upcoming issue of March 15–read the last line first. (That’s what I hear you’re supposed to do…) Buyout Irvine, Alexander C.Mar 2009. 336 p. Del Rey, paperback, $14.00. (9780345494337). Painfully honest and not necessarily apt to think things through, Martin Kindred is the only man in his family who isn’t a cop. He…
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Video: SF/Fantasy Writers Roundtable at NYCC ’09
Suvudu‘s Shawn Speakman had the unenviable task of herding 10 (!) writers through a panel at NYCC ’09, called “Author Round Table: Sci-fi/Supernatural/Fantasy Authors Gather To Talk Influences.” They were: John Birmingham, Peter V. Brett, S.C. Butler, Kim Harrison, Jackie Kessler, Vicki Pettersson, Tamora Pierce, Jeff Somers, Carrie Vaughn, and me. We talked about literary…
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"Starcraft Is a Reflection of Life"
Of course you knew that. But if you ever wanted to get the game theory (and all kinds of other theories about human conduct) behind this intuitively obvious idea, this video of a lecture given by Alan Feng at Berkeley is everything you could have ever hoped for. http://blip.tv/play/gtQk6+MvkPxE (from Academic Earth…but I saw it…
Crooked House Fictions 