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BVC Announces Einstein’s Bridge by John Cramer

Einstein’s Bridge

A Novel of Hard Science Fiction

by John Cramer

In 2004 in a possible universe, the DOE’s Superconducting Supercollider has been constructed in Waxahachie, Texas and is beginning operation, making unintended trans-dimensional signals that are being received in other universes and are attracting the attention of powerful and intelligent aliens, benevolent and hostile. This is a novel about cutting-edge physics, alien contact, wormholes, time travel, the politics of large-scale ph...

BVC Announces Lhind the Thief

Lhind the Thief

by Sherwood Smith

Lhind has been on the run all her life.

Stealing what she needs, using magic for disguise, she never stays anywhere long. Lhind even has secrets from herself, for she has few memories, and those are troubling.

But life is good until she gets caught by Rajanas the warrior-prince, Thianra the bard, and Hlanan the scribe. And that’s when adventure begins, because someone very powerful wants them all dead.

As they evade pursuit and work to uncover their enemies, Lhind...

Author Interview:Julianne Lee

Julianne Lee

Interviewed by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel

Writer Julianne Lee is a creative who discovered at a young age that daydreaming with a purpose equaled telling stories for fun. It was a while before she realized it might also be a great way to make a living. Her large family and military upbringing taught her a lot about people and gave her an appreciation of both a traveling life and the concept of Home. She pretended to be an artist for a few years, but what she really wanted was to be...

Mindfulness

While the Horseblog wends its way onward, my fellow BVC member Dave Trowbridge has been posting his own Puppyblog on Saturdays. This past week, he addressed the question of interspecies communication. Among the many good points made, one of the most important, for me, is that humans probably fail to understand the vast majority of the messages sent to them by their animals, and probably are not even aware that they’re missing anything.

Tell me about it.

It’s not just that I have perforce to str...

Story Inspiration Sunday

I have two bird feeders at my house. One in the front, and one at the back.

This post, is going to be for the birds.

I make up a lot of stories about the critters I see flying to and from my feeders.

First, the brave, bad boys of the bunch, the chickadees.

Yeah, I’m looking at you, kid.

I can’t believe how brave these buggers are. It doesn’t matter how big the other bird at the feeder is. The chickadees are brave opportunists, and will fly up regardless. They’ll fly away just as quick if they’...

Ergaster’s Children

(Picture fromhere.)

When I first moved up here to Massachusetts I did what I always do, I went to the science museum. There was an exhibit of the cave paintings. The docent talked about them and said (as close as I remember): “Who were these wonderful artists? It certainly wasn’t these folks. They just weren’t capable.” With that he brandished a Neanderthal skull.

That ticked me off. First, because the cave paintings were made long after the Neanderthals had died out. So, while it’s true they d...

The Darcy Chronicles 7: Today I Am a Dog

Darcy’s 13th week of life saw another milestone and his first puppy class. He finished the week at 43.5 pounds, a little more than half his expected adult weight of just under 88 pounds. (That being the upper limit of the breed standard.) His two-legs have learned the Canine Theory of Value (CToV), and are a little better at understanding Dog.

Gayatri enjoys teasing Mr. Darcy from high (and not-so-high) places

Today I am a dog

Sunday we celebrated what you might call Mr. Darcy’s Un-Barred Mitzva...

The Elusive One-Star Review

Believe it or not, a one-star review is truly a gift. Not everybody gets one. Count yourself lucky if you can honestly admit to receiving a one-star review.

The fact is, five-star reviews are rather easy to come by. You get one in one of two ways. The easiest, of course, is to write a stellar book. The other is to have your friends review your book at Amazon. Seems like it would be easier to get your friends to review your book than to write a perfect novel, but not really. Perfect is in the e...

My First Computer – Cromemco C-10

The question posed for this blog series was, “What was your first computer?”

My kids would have just one answer to that question. When they grew old enough to have their own computers, my wife and I bought ones for them.

For me, though, the question has two answers. There was the first computer I got to work with. And then over a decade later, I finally had a computer in my home, for my exclusive use, that I could use for writing.

Last week Lois Gresh answered the question by describing the firs...

World Fantasy Award Nominations

Congratulations to all the World Fantasy Award nominees, especially to Book View Café founding member Ursula K. Le Guin, whose collection The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth and Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands (Small Beer) is shortlisted in the Best Collection category.

The complete list of nominees can be found at the World Fantasy Convention home page.