Walter Jon Williams's Blog, page 9

Yours For the Taking

Ebook Daily is offering The Praxis as a $1.99 bargain special. I don’t know when this special will end, so it’s best to buy while you can.

Ratsy

Furry friend discovered on the wainscoting of a large building in Cooperstown, NY. There were seven rats in the building, and I found six. I think I knew where to find the last, but by that point my feet were tired.

My Best– On Sale!

The audio book of my collection, The Best of Walter Jon Wiliams, is now available for half price through 11 October.

No point in waiting till October to listen to it— get it now!

Good News. Better News.

Had my nine-month checkup.

Cancer still dead.

Any number of messy medical issues remain, but none of them are going to kill me.

Good News. Bad News. Airborne Assault.

The good: the eye surgery has been a success. I can now read newsprint with my left eye, where before it would just have been a blur. My retina has been slowly uncrumpling.

In bad news: my knees are in worse shape than I thought. Knee replacement has been recommended. I’m reluctant to do this until I get over the side effects of my 2019 hip replacement: a tilted pelvis, scoliosis, 24/7 chronic leg pain, and a limp.

For the last two days we’ve been beset by hordes of tiny, very hungry m...

My Bubonicon Schedule

This weekend I’ll be attending Bubonicon 55, the latest iteration of New Mexico’s premiere science fiction convention. (And it’s a little staggering to realize that I’ve attended almost all of those 55 cons.)

In case any of you want to come by and say hello, I’ll be at the following events:

Friday August 23, 8:15-9:05. Reading.

Saturday August 24, 11:00-Noon. Panel. Stop that, Droid! Beyond the three laws of robotics.

Saturday August 24,3-4pm. Panel. Research joy: writing ...

Rifts in Time

Another dip into the archives today. Found was the copy-edit on THE RIFT. I was reminded that the manuscript was seven inches thick and amounted to a historically significant 1066 pages. (My own grueling Battle of Hastings) It was an open question whether binding technology would actually get a book that long between covers.

After I handed in the ms., I had a meeting with my editor, John Douglas. He said, “We could work really hard on tightening and cut 15%, or we could just send it to the p...

Your Career Can Be Yours!

Today Kathy strapped a bunch of wall calendars in some homemade shipping containers, with the intension of sending them off to TAMU special collections.

Why wall calendars? Because they contain day-to-day tracking of my life for the last thirty-odd years. (Assuming of course that anyone in the future is interested in such a thing.)

Plus: pretty pictures!

It occurs to me that I’m of the last generation to generate such a complete paper trail, what with calendars, copy-edited manuscript...

Beware the Witch Eye of Walter!

Red Eyes

I didn’t sleep well last night because I’d had eye surgery that morning and had this lump of stuff pasted over my eye, but the lump of stuff came off this morning and I had a successful nap.

Frankly I look terrifying. The sclera of my left eye is bright blood red, with the iris suspended atop like a button floating in a scarlet lake. Since the scarlet eye can be a result of petechiae breaking as a result of strangulation, I feel I ought to come up with a thrilling tale of desperate struggle ...