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February 28, 2018
Hey, Sydney! I’m coming to see you tonight (then Adelaide and Wellington!)
I’m just about to go to the airport to fly to Sydney for tonight’s event, What should we do about Democracy?
It’s part of the Australia/New Zealand tour for Walkaway, and from Sydney, I’m moving on to the Adelaide Festival and then to Wellington for Writers and Readers Week and the NetHui one-day event on copyright.
It feels like democracy is under siege, even in rich, peaceful countries like Australia that have escaped financial shocks and civil strife. Populist impulses have been unlea...
My short story about better cities, where networks give us the freedom to schedule our lives to avoid heat-waves and traffic jams
I was lucky enough to be invited to submit a piece to Ian Bogost’s Atlantic series on the future of cities (previously: James Bridle, Bruce Sterling, Molly Sauter, Adam Greenfield); I told Ian I wanted to build on my 2017 Locus column about using networks to allow us to coordinate our work and play in a way that maximized our freedom, so that we could work outdoors on nice days, or commute when the traffic was light, or just throw an impromptu block party when the neighborhood needed a bre...
February 26, 2018
Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 05
Here’s part five of my reading (MP3) (part four, part three, part two, part one) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015’s Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer. It’s my Burning Man/maker/first days of a better nation story and was a kind of practice run for my 2017 novel Walkaway.
February 15, 2018
Do We Need a New Internet?
I was one of the interview subjects on an episode of BBC’s Tomorrow’s World called Do We Need a New Internet? (MP3); it’s a fascinating documentary, including some very thoughtful commentary from Edward Snowden.
The 2018 Locus Poll is open: choose your favorite science fiction of 2017!
Following the publication of its editorial board’s long-list of the best science fiction of 2017, science fiction publishing trade-journal Locus now invites its readers to vote for their favorites in the annual Locus Award. I’m honored to have won this award in the past, and doubly honored to see my novel Walkaway on the short list, and in very excellent company indeed.
While you’re thinking about your Locus List picks, you might also use the list as an aide-memoire in picking your nominee...
February 12, 2018
The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 04 [FIXED]
Here’s part four of my reading (MP3) (part three, part two, part one) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015’s Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer. It’s my Burning Man/maker/first days of a better nation story and was a kind of practice run for my 2017 novel Walkaway.
February 11, 2018
Hey, Australia and New Zealand, I’m coming to visit you!
I’m about to embark on a tour of Australia and New Zealand to support my novel Walkaway, with stops in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and Wellington! I really hope you’ll come out and say hello!
Perth: Feb 24-25, Perth Festival
Melbourne: Feb 27: An expansive conversation about the imperfect present and foreseeable future with CS Pascat, St Kilda Town Hall, 19h
Melbourne: Feb 28: How do writers get paid?, Wheeler Centre, 1815h
Sydney: Mar 1: What should we do about democracy?, Ci...
February 5, 2018
Nominations for the Hugo Awards are now open
If you were a voting member of the World Science Fiction Convention in 2017, or are registered as a voting member for the upcoming conventions in 2018 or 2019, you are eligible to nominate for the Hugo Awards; the Locus List is a great way to jog your memory about your favorite works from last year — and may I humbly remind you that my novel Walkaway is eligible for your nomination?
February 1, 2018
The 2017 Locus List: a must-read list of the best science fiction and fantasy of the past year
Every year, Locus Magazine’s panel of editors reviews the entire field of science fiction and fantasy and produces its Recommended Reading List; the 2017 list is now out, and I’m proud to say that it features my novel Walkaway, in excellent company with dozens of other works I enjoyed in the past year.
January 30, 2018
Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 03
Here’s part three of my reading (MP3) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015’s Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer. It’s my Burning Man/maker/first days of a better nation story and was a kind of practice run for my 2017 novel Walkaway.
