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Five Stories More Important than Tiger Woods

That you probably aren't hearing about:

The Iranian people are still protesting the regime.
We're a few steps closer to commercial space tourism.
Five Billion Euros have been scammed from the European Carbon Trading Market.
Danish Prostitutes offer free sex to Copenhagen Delegates.
Woman faces 3 years in prison for taping birthday party in a movie theater.

A Dylan Sort of Mood. . .

When science becomes politicized it stops being science.

Scientific research is based on the idea of review, so others can reproduce your results.  Peer review should not be about . It certainly shouldn't be about intimidation of reporters.  Is shouldn't be about politicians defining what the "real science" is.  Especially when they're repeatedly wrong about it.  Who really should be angry?  Scientists.

Zoe has a theme

Three different pictures on three different dates:

Things That Happened When I Wasn't Blogging – Part 5

Michael Wolf decided to make a complete asshat of himself.

I'll let you ponder the following thesis:

HarperCollins does not really believe Sarah Palin has written a valuable book—or even that it is really a book, not in the way that HarperCollins has historically understood books, or in the way that people have counted on HarperCollins to have understood a book. But, these are desperate times and real books are an increasingly equivocal proposition anyway, so almost all publishers are willing...

Things That Happened While I Wasn't Blogging – Part 4

This video went viral:

This video came out re: those leaked "Climategate" e-mails:

And this amazing little animation from New Zeland made the rounds.

Things That Happened When I Wasn't Blogging – Part 3

Of course the big news is I finished the editorial rewrite of Wolf's Cross which means that it is officially finished. (Except for reviewing the copy-edits, any last-minute editorial decisions, and going over the page proofs. . . other than that, it's done, really.)

But, in addition to that, look at what I got in the mail:

These are the faux trade-paper bound galleys, like I got for Prophets.  I still think it's way cool seeing them in this format.

Things That Happened When I Wasn't Blogging – Part 2

I was at the Buckeye Book Fair:

Here I am signing books:

Here's fellow Ohio SF author Paul Melko:

Here's paranormal mystery author Casey Daniels:

Here's a sense of how busy the whole thing was:

Things That Happened When I Wasn't Blogging – Part 1

While I was out, it seems we found out the science on Global Warming is a lot less settled than Al Gore would like us to believe.  At the risk of being called the moral equivalent of a Holocaust denier, I can't say that this particularly surprises me.  When we talk about climate scientists (the people who tell us how settled the science is) we are talking about a small close-knit group of people who suffer from twin problems; an honest belief that global warming is a dire threat and it is...

Book Signing this weekend

I'll be doing a signing on Saturday, November 14th, at 7pm at Mac's Backs in Cleveland Hts. This will be a joint signing along with fellow author Casey Daniels. Here's a link with more details. Stop out and say "hi"!