Diane Duane's Blog: Out of Ambit, page 9
February 5, 2019
Tenterhooks
We’ve been living in rural Ireland for a shade more than thirty years now, and the household’s online connectivity has been a bit of a challenge from the very start.…
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January 16, 2019
Hugo Nomination Eligibility: the Tale of the Five Series
(Above: the Five contemplate a Hugo Award) So it’s that time of year when nominations open up for the World Science Fiction Society’s Hugo Awards, and it turns out that…
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November 28, 2018
French Toast As Served On Five Railroads
(I was hunting around for the below quote from James D. Porterfield’s classic cookbook/research book Dining By Rail, and found that its original online location had vanished. This post appears…
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November 15, 2018
The Backs of the Melons
(This post via Tumblr, where it originally appeared.)(And still does, here, but some people don’t care for the new data permissions on Tumblr, and who could blame them?) In a…
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September 24, 2018
Young Wizards meta: Wizardry and zombies
(ETA: This material is reposted here from its original location at Tumblr, for those who don’t care for the platform’s new TOC.) A question came in at my Tumblr ask…
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August 6, 2018
For the first time in 25 years, new “Tale of the Five” fiction: “The Levin-Gad”
I’ve been thinking about this series of novelettes for a good while. Now that The Door Into Starlight is in progress for real (and DO NOT ask me about when…
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April 24, 2018
CrossingsCon 2019: I’ll be there!
I am absolutely delighted to announce that I’ve been asked to attend 2019’s CrossingsCon — the third incarnation of the world’s only Young Wizards-based sf/fantasy/media convention — and everything’s come…
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February 12, 2018
2018 Hugo Award eligibility: for those who were asking
So nominations for the 2018 awards associated with the World Science Fiction Convention in San Jose, Worldcon 76, have opened up, and a lot of people have been posting and…
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February 10, 2018
At Ebooks Direct: last chance to get the updated 9-book Young Wizards New Millennium Editions at the present discounted price
The NME box sets at the Ebooks Direct store have been selling at a promotional 50% discount for two years plus, now… but unfortunately all good things must come to…
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December 12, 2017
The full Feline Wizards series now at Ebooks Direct
It’s a pleasure to be able to let everyone know that all three of the Feline Wizards books — The Book of Night with Moon, To Visit The Queen (published…
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