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October 2, 2014
Check it out: Hurricane Fever Audiobook available now from Audible.com
Hurricane Fever is now an audiobook. Audible has worked very hard on it and Arctic Rising, the narrators are amazing.
The narrator came via referral from Robin Miles, who has done Nalo Hopkinson and Karen Lord’s books. I think he sounds amazing and am so grateful Robin was able to help us like that.
Even more amazing is this tidbit: Robin Miles and Prentice have been working very closely with me and Audible to record the Xenowealth novels. The attention to detail, the samples I’ve heard, and th...
September 27, 2014
Beginning my writer residency in Bermuda today
In a blog post a while back I broke the news that I would be the Writer in Residence in Bermuda:
“Last month Dr. Kim Dismont Robinson from the Bermuda Ministry of Community and Cultural Affairs reached out to me to ask if I would come and be a part of the Writer-in-Residence Programme in Bermuda this October. I would be responsible for helping direct some three weeks of workshops for interested writers, with a focus on genre.
It’s always a huge honor when the islands reach back out to me. And f...
September 17, 2014
Rocket Talk, Episode 27: now with 100% more Karen Lord and Tobias Buckell
Karen Lord and I teamed up to chat with Justin Landon of Staffer’s Book Review for his Rocket Talk Podcast up at Tor.com:
“In this episode of Rocket Talk, Justin brings on Karen Lord and Tobias Buckell to discuss their most recent works, what they mean when they talk about Caribbean Science Fiction, and the challenge of reading western literature from a different point of view. Justin also manages to squeeze in some talk about how the two see series fiction.”
Little Red Reviewer on Hurricane Fever
I have found my pull quote for this review:
“Once the action starts in Hurricane Fever, it never lets up”
(Via Hurricane Fever by Tobias S. Buckell | the Little Red Reviewer.)
It was awesome to meet up with the Little Red Reviewer when I appeared at Kazoo books with Jim Hines, which she wrote about on her blog as well (head over to win a copy of Jim Hines’ latest book).
September 16, 2014
The Los Angeles Review of Books reviews Hurricane Fever
This review digs down deep into All the Things I’m trying to do in my fiction. Honestly, all this is why I write the things I do. I’m grateful to all reviews of my fiction, but this is one of those rare ones where I feel like the reviewer was the person I wrote the book for, as they responded to all the various things I was trying to achieve:
Science fiction’s predictive powers are debatable, but Delany’s observation on the connection between the ‘economic heft’ of the presence of substantial...
September 15, 2014
Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy interview with me, Ramez Naam, and Paolo Bacigalupi
Ramez Naam, Paolo Bacigalupi, and me all bat climate change back and forth on Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast:
“‘When I started writing [Arctic Rising], I called it science fiction, because I thought the idea of completely eliminating the polar ice cap was science fictional, that’s pretty wild. A lot of the people who criticize climate change are like, ‘Oh, they’re way too pessimistic.’ And I’m like, ‘These guys are way too optimistic.’ IPCC was calling for possibly ice-free summers being l...
September 9, 2014
So about that Amazon 99 cent phone…
According to Amazon’s press releases about how lower prices *always* mean more success for books, because they’re just widgets and the cheaper they are the more units they sell, and the more I, the author, profits, this means that Amazon just had THE BIGGEST SUCCESSFUL PHONE LAUNCH EVER!
Right?
“Amazon has given up on trying to get you to pay $199 for the Fire Phone with a contract. Now the retail giant has brought the price down — way down.
The Fire Phone, Amazon’s first and only mobile phone,...
How do economists change what they say based on money
HBR has this great article about the impact of money on economists and what they have to say about economics:
“To be an economist, you kind of have to believe that people respond to economic incentives. But when anyone suggests that an economist’s views might be shaped by the economic incentives he or she faces, that economist tends to get bent out of shape. This happened perhaps most famously in the documentary Inside Job, in which filmmaker Charles Ferguson posed his questions to the likes o...
September 8, 2014
Catching up
It seems like yesterday I was taking selfies while riding a cable car across the Thames to the O2 Centre, but I’ve been catching up on All The Things since getting home a couple weeks ago.
Meanwhile, the twins started Kindergarten. Which is wild. Everyday they’re heading out with bags on their backs that seem bigger than they are, and they’re riding the bus. Emily takes them in with her on the way to school, and they ride a bus to the sitter and wait for her to get off work. Finding out they w...
Solar in Texas is hitting parity, an interesting inflection point
Link via Robert J. Bennet on twitter. Solar is hitting parity. Some people’s heads are going to explode
“But the Barilla project is unique in Texas because its developers – confident that their electricity can compete on the open market – have forged ahead without signing a power purchase agreement, which would guarantee a buyer for their energy.
Texas, because of its size and intense radiation, leads the nation in solar energy potential.Much of that resource is in the state’s western half,acco...
