Walter Jon Williams's Blog, page 161

Passive Entertainment

While I’ve been traveling and working and livin’ large and otherwise engaged, my DVR has been recording hours and hours of stuff. Is it worth watching? You tell me.
I have a good many episodes of Defiancestored up. I’ve watched the first half of the pilot, in which high production values were matched with an utter lack of originality. Generic post-holocaust future, generic aliens with generic Star Trekforehead bumps, and a great deal ripped off from Alien Nation, assuming of course that Rockne...

Talkin’ Till I’m Blue in the Face

I’ve updated my interview page with every online interview I could track down. Including one in which I speak absolutely perfect French.
So now you can find out everything about me that I’m willing to talk about.
You’ll just have to infer the rest.

The Process

Taos Toolbox grad Catherine Schaff-Stump has put up an interview about my writing process.
Check it out.

Motor Sport

This is the new Lamborghini. It’s called the Egoista, which means just about what you think it does. it’s got a 5.2 liter V10, lots of carbon fiber, and room for only one person. (I’m guessing, from the appearance of the vehicle, that it’s intended for the Dark Lord himself.)
The driver compartment is detachable. Like an ejection seat. Just in case, y’know, you need to leave the vehicle for some reason, like maybe James Bond has got a bead on you with his rocket launcher.
I’d really like one....

Guinea Foul

This anecdote is perhaps best accompanied by the above video, which will give you an idea of the sounds, and the volume, which I regularly endure.
Last night I went out to close the gate leading to our single-lane dirt road, as I do every night, and I saw that one of the neighbor’s guinea fowl had got stuck on our side of the fence. It was dashing frantically back and forth across the same ten-foot stretch of fence, making its desperate barking cry in hopes that its flock would somehow rescue...

Another Bust

The New Mexico Book Fiesta was, as I feared (and more or less expected) a desert. Picture a giant convention hall full of booths and dealers. Then picture a handful of people wandering around in silence, most of them authors and dealers just strolling over to say hello to one another.
I looked in at the talks and lectures, and none had an audience of more than half a dozen.
I began by being annoyed that they couldn’t think of anything more interesting to do with me than a signing, and left reli...

Events Here, Events There

I will be at the New Mexico Book Fiesta this Saturday, from 12:30-1:30, signing at the Page One booth. Though there are a number of SF authors attending, all but one are signing only. They seem not to quite know what to do with SF authors.
Which seems to be a theme this week, since they didn’t know what to do with me at Jacksonville’s Sci-Fi Weekend, either.
They flew me in, and put me up at a very nice hotel, but then . . . not much. I was scheduled for only one hour of programming the whole w...

March of Triumph

I’m pleased to report that “The Boolean Gate” has been nominated for a Locus Award. Congratulations to the other nominees. And more importantly, congratulations to meeeeeeeeee!
The Locus Award is one that anyone can vote for, so I encourage you all to seek out and read all the nominees, make an objective judgment, and then vote for “The Boolean Gate” like God intended.
If you haven’t read it, or wish to read it again, it’s still available for free at the Subterranean website.
I should mention th...

You Might Just Be A Redneck, If . . .

From rural Florida, it’s the punchline to a Jeff Foxworthy joke.

To Florida!

I’m off to Jacksonville for their convention at the Science Museum. I hope to see at least some of you there.