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Museum adventures
Denver is a fun museum city; it’s not Chicago or New York, but it has plenty to explore. In addition to the big ones – the Denver Art Museum, the Colorado Historical Society museum, the Denver Museum...
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#AnomalyCon Sunday
I know! It’s been three weeks. (It’s been three weeks? Crap.) On the plus side, I’ve had a little time to reflect let what I learned stew in the back of my head, and revisiting it is interesting. The...
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Stalwart, Sasketchewan
Stalwart is – – is pragmatic. This land is not going to be anything other than what it is. It has what it has to give. The seasons change when they will, and the water flows as it wants. You work with...
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Sense of wonder
The very difficult read and review of The Three-Body Problem made me think about what it is that I actually seek out in the spec fic I read, and what I seek to convey in what I write. I have been...
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Beat the Backlist
Confession time. Ok, this is slightly embarrassing. I’m always on about the history and conventions of the genre and the importance of being educated in canon, and I am in fact pretty well-read, but...
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Typography
As the Sanctuary release approaches (formal announcement VERY SOON, y’all!) I’m starting to work on interior design components and researching which fonts to buy, and I’ve mentioned this to a couple of...
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What I’m reading: for fraught values of “utopia”
The Wild Shore (1984); Pacific Edge (1990) / Kim Stanley Robinson Consider Phlebas (1987) / Iain Banks (Challenge book: Beat the Backlist) It’s such an interesting experience to re-read a book you read...
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What I’m reading: meta meta
Arkwright (2017) / Allan Steele Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation (2016) / Ken Liu (ed.) Martians Abroad (2017) / Carrie Vaughn After our foray into current events,...
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What I’m reading: the triumph of human capacity
Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture (2014) / Erez Aiden, Jean-Baptiste Michel The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone (2017) / Steven Sloman, Philip Fernbach Thank You for Being...
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I’ve been thinking about how and why I write in multiple tight third person POV, doing a lot of metaanalysis as I (FINALLY) wrap up the last few scenes in Cathedral. What I’m in the middle of right now...
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