Tim O'Shea interviewed me for the swell Robot 6 sector of Comic Book Resources, and you can find it here. I tried not to say the same things about the same things, as a rival philosopher once accused Socrates of doing. But I'm no Socrates, so maybe I did. At the end you'll find out more about what I should be writing instead of this blog post, though...
That's the name of the serialized story I'm doing for Tor.com, and I'm taking a break from writing it to note that the sequence that I thought would be impossible in the first act came together in one night* last week, so this next bit, which I think will be easy, will probably be difficult. I've come to expect that I'm wrong about stories I'm writing a lot more often than I'm right.
But in tonight's batch of pages Turing enters Bletchley Park, and everybody is glad to see him there, myself included.
[*a night that ended late, and with a smile, and with a splitting headache]
But in tonight's batch of pages Turing enters Bletchley Park, and everybody is glad to see him there, myself included.
[*a night that ended late, and with a smile, and with a splitting headache]
T-Minus was just selected as one of YALSA's 2010 Great Graphic Novel for Teens. Lovely!
Thanks to David Pogue's column in the NYT, I now use Readability. It's worth a look, I promise.
So yeah, that bit I posted on Halloween contained more than idle hope about working with Tor.com. To the grindstone!
(But, Dickens? Thanks for setting the bar in the ionosphere, Bob...)
(But, Dickens? Thanks for setting the bar in the ionosphere, Bob...)
October is steampunk month at my once (and future, I hope...I'd love to work with them again!) publisher Tor.com, which is tres cool, even though I'm not the sort of person who dresses up, even for Halloween, and
I like my technology solid state wherever possible. But I just returned from
my parents' house with
this beauty:
My grandfather was a carpenter by profession and my dad was one by avocation, and thanks to the latter's desire to shed as much weight as possible while packing things for a move that's happening sooner than we all expected, this level is now in my toolbox. Actually, it's not. There's a reason modern versions are made of aluminum, but the wrought iron, brass, and steel cleaned up beautifully. It still works, and not only as decoration, so we can now monitor the status of our mantel with style. Once and future style.
My grandfather was a carpenter by profession and my dad was one by avocation, and thanks to the latter's desire to shed as much weight as possible while packing things for a move that's happening sooner than we all expected, this level is now in my toolbox. Actually, it's not. There's a reason modern versions are made of aluminum, but the wrought iron, brass, and steel cleaned up beautifully. It still works, and not only as decoration, so we can now monitor the status of our mantel with style. Once and future style.
Please come see Friendship 7, Gemini IV, Apollo 11, and me on Saturday the 26th at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. I'll be signing T-Minus there from 2-4pm. I suppose I could be more excited and honored by this but I'm not sure how.
The National Book Festival is also happening that day, outside on the National Mall itself, so if you're heading over plan to leave yourself some extra time to get around and look around.
The National Book Festival is also happening that day, outside on the National Mall itself, so if you're heading over plan to leave yourself some extra time to get around and look around.
The Imitation Game