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Gordon Ramsay vs. Twitter

Gordon Ramsay dispenses cooking advice.   Pretty useful, actually.

Cocktails at the Cocteau

This coming Sunday, 23 April, at 1pm, I will be participating in an Author Event at the Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe. I’ll be there with fellow authors Ian Tregillis and EM Tippetts, for a joint interview followed by a signing. It should be fun!  Come join us! There will be cocktails! (I’m pretty sure.  There usually are.)  And if not cocktails, popcorn! (And if you can’t come, the event will be live streamed on Facebook and Periscope.  But you’ll have to make your own cocktails, I’m afrai...

Final Hours

Just a note that if you want the Artificial Intelligence StoryBundle, featuring my novel Aristoi and nine other novel-length works, you have until 9pm EDT on Thursday. For a full description of the bundle and its contents, check my post for April 12, just below.

Google Guy

What if Google were a person? Sometimes I feel like this guy.  But sometimes I’m also the guy asking about Bitcoin.

Free! Free!

Here’s another chance to win a free AI StoryBundle, for details of which please see my previous post. Identify this object, and make sure I have your email.

 

Ten Books @ Zero $$$

Want to get a free copy of the  AI StoryBundle ?  Instructions below. But first, let me remind you that the StoryBundle features 10 novel-length works of science fiction, including: Aristoi by Walter Jon Williams Arachne by Lisa Mason The Bohr Maker by Linda Nagata Queen City Jazz by Kathleen Ann Goonan Rewired – The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel (which has another story of mine in it). The A.I. Chronicles by Samuel Peralta and Ellen Campbell Ey...

E ∝ mv2

So have you ever wanted to know the physics for what happens when Thor hits the Hulk? Of course you do.

Flight

Via GRRM, it’s the new United Airlines commercial.

Good Thing, Coming to an End

The 99-cent sale on Implied Spaces will end 10pm MDT, Monday, April 10, so if you want  a copy at that price, you should venture over to Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, Kobo, iBooks, and Google. I’m sorry to report that this sale was a flop.  Mostly that was due to BookBub, the largest venue for ebook promotion, deciding (for reasons best known to themselves) not to promote the work inside the U.S.  I had to pay another outfit to do that, and they simply don’t have BookBub’s reach.  Plus I tried to...

2-D

So here I am on the Llano Estecado, which is very, very flat.  Mr. A Square would be very much at home. I am once again at the annual Jack Williamson Lectureship, where I am hanging with some lovely people, including Connie Willis, Michael Cassutt, Steve Gould, Melinda Snodgrass, and Joan Saberhagen. As usual, Patrice Caldwell is running the event with seems to be effortless aplomb, though I suspect there is rather more effort behind the scenes. I am getting a head start on my weekend.  I hop...