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What to Say?

Posted in Other, tagged , , , , on July 25, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

— George Eliot

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Book Break

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on June 16, 2025| Leave a Comment »

An interview with a sci-fi author about a series that sounds good:

‘For anybody who could use a break’: A Q&A with sci-fi author Becky Chambers

So, my goal with these books was to create something that hit that same note, of: “You can just be comfy here for a while. You can just be safe. Nothing’s gonna jump at you, nothing’s gonna stress you out. But I am going to speak to you as a fellow adult. I’m going to talk to you about things that are relevant to you in your adult life.”

Sounds fun, and I’ve enjoyed other Becky Chambers books, so I’m adding the Monk & Robot series to my list.

“One of the things I aim for is just to say, hey, it doesn’t have to be this way. I think that’s the key goal of science fiction in general, whether it’s a positive future, a negative future, somewhere in between. It doesn’t have to be like this.”

— Becky Chambers

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Good Books Only, Please!

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 23, 2024| Leave a Comment »

We gave a dinner party over the weekend and talk turned (as it does) to entertainment. When, one conversant asked, would the Game of Thrones books ever be published? I don’t know the answer to that question (obviously, but the timeline tells its own tale) but I was interested to read this take by editor and journalist Maddy Meyers.

If George R. R. Martin doesn’t want to write Winds of Winter, that’s OK – Polygon

…without speaking to the man or knowing him personally at all, I am nonetheless prepared to make the case that George R. R. Martin simply does not want to finish writing The Winds of Winter.

He’s just not into it. If he continues to force himself to do it, the end result will probably be a pretty terrible book — and I think he knows that, and that’s why he can’t finish it, because he doesn’t want to publish a bad book. The alternative? We don’t get the book at all. And for me, that’s actually preferable.

Honestly, I agree. While I’d love for him to finish the rest of the series, a bad book is far worse than no book at all.

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Who Am I Missing?

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , on February 9, 2024| Leave a Comment »

I decided to make a list of science fiction and fantasy authors based on my reading history, organized by the starting letter of their last name. (That’s normal, right?) 

This is off the top of my head and while I read a lot my memory isn’t the best. I have certainly forgotten many authors, and of course there are many more that I have not yet read. And I haven’t put everyone in here, but focused on the ones engraved into my longer-term memory banks. (As such, it tends toward the classics.) Even so, I was surprised to find that most letters have at least some entries.

Most, but not for Q, U, and X. 

Here’s my list in progress. Who am I missing?

A is for Asimov, Atwood, Adams, Abercrombie, Andrews, Addison, Anders, Anthony

B is for Butler, Bradbury, Bujold, Banks, Bacigalupi, Bester, Butcher, Burroughs, Baum, Bull, Beukes, Bradley

C is for Crowley, Chiang, Card, Crichton, Arthur C. Clarke, Cronin, Chambers, Corey, Susanna Clarke, Carroll, Cooper, Cherryh

D is for Delany, Dick

E is for El-Mohtar

F is for Farmer, Farland, Feist, Fforde, Flint, Foster

G is for Grant, Gibson, Gladstone, Gaiman, Gabaldon, Green, Goldman

H is for Harrison, Herbert, Huxley, Heinlein, Haldeman, Hamilton, Hobb, Hopkinson

I is for Ishiguro

J is for Jemisin, Jordan, Diana Wynne Jones

K is for King, Kowal, Kingfisher, Kay, Kurtz

L is for Leckie, Lem, Ken Liu, Le Guin, Lewis, Lem, Lunch, Cixin Liu, L’Engle, Lowry, Lord, Leiber

M is for McCarthy, Miller Jr, Muir, Martine, Miéville, Martine, McGuire, McCaffrey, Matheson, Moorcock, Milne, Macdonald, McKinley

N is for Niven, Novik, Norton

O is for Okorafor, Orwell

P is for Pournelle, Pratchett, Pullman

Q is for …

R is for Robinson, Rothfuss, Rowling

S is for Scalzi, Shelley, Stephenson, Simmons, Sagan, Stross, Samatar, Sanderson, Sawyer

T is for Tolkien, Tchaikovsky, Tiptree Jr., Tepper

U is for …

V is for Vonnegut, Verne, VanderMeer, Vinge

W is for Weir, HG Wells, Martha Wells, Willis, Whitehead, Walton, Williams, TH White, Wilhelm

X is for …

Y is for Yolen, Yu

Z is for Zelazny

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What’s This?

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 21, 2022| Leave a Comment »

What’s this, what’s this? I have just discovered that the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has a video interview series with interesting authors like Ann Leckie, Ken Liu, Karen Lord and more. It’s called Narrative Worlds and is hosted by author Kate Elliott.

I now know this because I follow Martha Wells (Murderbot and much more), and she is heading for the interview chair this Sunday the 24th.

Busy on Sunday? Me too, probably, but good news, SFWA archives the series.

Here’s Season 1 and Season 2.

Have I listened to these yet? I just discovered they existed five minutes ago so no, I have not. The list of authors is impressive, however, and I expect good things.

Also Murderbot.

If you’re into science fiction and fantasy and are curious about what’s goes on in a writer’s head, check out this series.

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