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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.
January 27, 2018
I’m speaking at UCSD on Feb 9!
I’m appearing at UCSD on February 9, with a talk called “Scarcity, Abundance and the Finite Planet: Nothing Exceeds Like Excess,” in which I’ll discuss the potentials for scarcity and abundance — and bright-green vs austere-green futurism — drawing on my novels Walkaway, Makers and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.
The talk is free and open to the public; the organizers would appreciate an RSVP to galleryinfo@calit2.net.
The lecture will take place in the Calit2 Auditorium in the Qualcom...
January 22, 2018
My keynote from ConveyUX 2017: “I Can’t Let You Do That, Dave.”
“The Internet’s broken and that’s bad news, because everything we do today involves the Internet and everything we’ll do tomorrow will require it. But governments and corporations see the net, variously, as a perfect surveillance tool, a perfect pornography distribution tool, or a perfect video on demand tool—not as the nervous system of the 21st century. Time’s running out. Architecture is politics. The changes we’re making to the net today will prefigure the future our children and their...
January 16, 2018
The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 02
Here’s part two 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.
