Walter Jon Williams's Blog, page 234

On the Video

Here's an interview from ActuSF, conducted at Utopiales a few weeks ago. The interviewer is Julien Morgan. If I'm a bit more articulate than is usual for me-- particularly considering that this event took place in the morning--- consider that it was the second time I've answered these questions. (The first time we did this interview, the sound got buggered.)

Graphic Plots

The brilliant XKCD provides charts showing time and movement of major characters in Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and other classics. I sometimes graphically plot the dramatic movements in my stories using differenly-colored pens, but I've never got as elaborate as this.

Got Fab?

Okay, so it's a kit. You may have to do some soldering. But it's still a 3D printer for your home. For only $750.00. Kit includes: * The lasercut parts to assemble a CupCake CNC machine.* 3 x NEMA 17 motors to drive your machine* The nuts, bolts, and various hardware to assemble it.* The belts and pulleys for it to move things around.* All the bearings to make your machine nice and smooth.* The

Fascist Digital Economy

So I watched this week with appalled fascination as Britain's government brought in its Digital Economy Bill, another giant leap forward in the Labour Party's ever-evolving "soft fascism." (And which will probably become law just in time for the Tories to step into office. What joy.) As a blinkered and baffled American, I can't hope to equal the level of anger and vitriol flooding across the

Lord of Light Trailer

Yes. Back from France. But still wrapped up in the complexities of being back from France.So while I cope with coping, check out the trailer for the upcoming film Lord of Light. Which tells the true story of how the CIA, masquerading as film producers scouting locations for a film of Zelazny's Lord of Light, succeeded in liberating six Americans held hostage in Iran.Comment, one feels, would be

South Beneath the Full Moon

Utopiales ended on Sunday, and a fine convention it was, too. Then we spent three rainy days in Bourgogne, visiting Kathy's cousine Karen, who with her S/O Jean-Bertrand owns an old stone farmhouse dated 1641. We left bloated with Jean-Bertrand's superb cooking, spent a day and a half in Avignon checking the scene, and are now on the road in Provence, which looks very like van Gogh paintings

Seeing the Elephant

Crossed an item off my life list today:Rode the giant steampunk elephant. In France. On my birthday.I`d upload photos,but it doesn`t seem possible on this connection.

First Observation

French airports are built with a steely Cartesian logic that is sometimes inaccessible to the Anglo-Saxon mind.

Ad Astra

Novel finished and delivered to editors in UK and US.Bags packed for France. Flight in six hours.I'll be gone for three weeks, and may not be able to check in during that time. In the meantime, please buy many copies of This Is Not a Game. Thank you.(Now if only I can find all that sleep I seem to have lost . . . )

Eric Idle Responds

Don't we all wish we could respond this way to our critics? Well, now I think about it, we can, can't we?