Walter Jon Williams's Blog, page 94

Up and Live

My tale of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla is now available on Apple, Amazon, Smashwords, Google, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble.  For a mere $2.99! Click here for an essay about this labor of love.

 

Interview, Part II

Behold!  It is Part II of my interview by Devin Fields on the Flyover Fandom blog.

Clews

I saw this guy tonight.  Safe to say I was amazed. Except the fellow’s name is Colin Cloud.  And having practically majored in the Elizabethans, I keep thinking of him as “Colin Clout.” But if you don’t know Spenser, it won’t matter.

Spas of the Jedi

Ever since the trailer for Star Wars: the Last Jedi was released, there has been a mighty buzz over Luke’s proclamation that “It’s time for the Jedi to end.” Charlie Jane Anders, on wired.com, suggests that what the Jedi need is not extinction, but Workers’ Comp. This is clearly a job with a high attrition rate. Hell, Jedi seem to turn to the Dark Side every time someone cuts them off in hyperspace traffic. Posited: Force-users should have mandatory downtime and retraining every few parsecs....

Boolean Trial

Here’s the prototype cover for my novella “The Boolean Gate,” shortly available wherever fine ebooks are sold. The portrait of Tesla is by Houman A. Tavassoli. Let me know what you think.

Reviews Too Late: Batman vs. Superman

Two weekends ago, I got HBO free for three days.  They usually do this when promoting something special, but during those days I didn’t see on the schedule anything special like Game of Thrones or The Handmaid’s Tale (which is Starz anyway), so I’m guessing they were just feeling generous. Be that as it may, I recorded Batman vs. Superman, which I didn’t see last year due to a general lack of enthusiasm for the subject matter.  I didn’t think it would be a good movie. I was right. It wasn’t a...

Found in This Morning’s Paper

Another Fine Interview

Part I of an interview with me, conducted by Devin Fields of the Flyover Fandom blog. Part II coming up . . .

First Century

Happy 100th birthday, Ella Fitzgerald!

(try to ignore all the advertising in the video.)

Bad Apple

Since switching to the Apple universe a few years ago, I’ve been reasonably content with life here in the Village.  You can’t leave, but then there are lots of nasty things that can’t get in— Windows 10 being right at the top of the list.  The tech isn’t absolutely cutting-edge here (the funny little carts, the white weather-balloon thing that patrols the border), but what we’ve got is reliable, and my MacBook crashes maybe once every year, whereas with XP . . . well, let’s not count the ways...