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Google Guy

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

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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...

All Set to Go

Taos Toolbox 2017 is full. After sifting through an unprecedented number of applications, we’ve chosen our finalists, and am now just waiting to hear from the last before starting to prepare for the workshop itself, which begins mid-June. My thanks to Nancy Kress for reading the submissions with me, and thanks also to the applicants.  When you’re just beginning, submitting your work is really putting your heart on the line, and it requires a degree of bravery.  So I salute the courage of all...

Wild Cards on the Great White Way

Wild Cards will soon be coming to a Broadway theater near you.  In a lavish musical production written by members of the Wild Cards Consortium and Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of Hamilton. Miranda will himself star as Dr. Tachyon, the flamboyant alien who tries and fails to prevent the spread of the wild card virus on Earth. Also cast are John Hodgman as the supremely evil Dr. Tod, and Sibel Kekilli (Shae from Game of Thrones) as Blythe van Rensselaer. The music will be an innovat...

Them!

They know too much about me.  (You’ve heard of Them, right?) I was looking at Amazon today, and they offered me the Easy Acid Reflux Cookbook.  How do They know I have acid reflux?  Is the pharmacy sending Them insufficiently anonymized data? Or have They been monitoring my doctor’s electronic files? I was browsing Costanza’s LiveJournal page the other day, and up popped an ad for Implied Spaces.  I’d just put Implied Spaces on sale.  (At least They didn’t know I’d actually written the book a...