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Love Yourself

Recently I was feeling pretty bummed. After a couple of, what felt to me, awkward social encounters I was beating myself up, generally feeling unloved and unloveable and wallowing in the self-pity that comes with that. Then to top it off, I watched a bunch of youtube videos of people rowing across some ocean or another. Adventure porn, but tinged with the understanding that I’ll likely never do those things. I felt like crap and then didn’t do anything to help myself.

What I wanted through al...

Cultured Meats

I’ve written about cultured meat, and I think that this has real potential to revolutionize the way humans do things. But — and this is a big ‘but’ — cultured meats have to be done right.

Obviously, this infomercial (is that what it is?) doesn’t address those concerns. They’re selling the ideaand are looking only at the very high-level positives. Still pretty fun to watch.

So let’s talk about these problem areas and challenging constructs, just for a moment, in our march toward this futu...

Hang in there Mom

You looked down, maybe a little more than usual.
Hang in there, stand up for the good that’s in your center.
Patience and time, your kids will appreciate all that you do

Once they’ve cleaned up their own mess.

And the Hugos Go To

They’ve been handed out and now the party has begun. Congratulations to everyone who took home a rocket this year.

BEST NOVEL (WORKS 40,000 WORDS AND ABOVE) The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit) Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie (Orbit) The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher (Roc) Seveneves: A Novel by Neal Stephenson (William Morrow) Uprooted by Naomi Novik (Del Rey) BEST NOVELLA (SHORT WORKS BETWEEN 17,500 AND 40,000 WORDS) Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com) The Builders...

UP SLOPE Episode One

Guess what I did this morning? I dropped the first episode in a groundbreaking, snow-enriched, super-powered, science fiction novel. UP SLOPE is exclusivelyavailable to subscribers of my Patreon. Which meansif you’d like to get your overheated meat sticks on this chilly summer read you’ll need to pop on over and subscribe. It’s not difficult, it’s not expensive. Your dollar will buy me a little creative freedom and you’ll be amply rewarded for your 100 pennies.

Signal Boost Legacy Fleet: Ascendance

Saul Tanpepper‘s latest is sitting a#2 inKindle Store Kindle Worlds Science Fiction & Fantasyright now. He’s a regular contributor to Samuel Peralta’s gigs and an excellent, prolific storyteller. If you’re looking for something to read now is the time to go plonk your clams down. You’ll get a great story and push Saul right over the top.

ALT.Chronicles Legacy Fleet

ALT.Chronicles Legacy Fleet

Sometime last night another anthology dropped. This one is a little different and very special as a result. It’s already hit#1 inKindle Store Kindle Worlds Science Fiction & Fantasyand we got there in less than 24 hours which may be a new record for a Peralta gig.

Featuring stories by Nick Webb, Will Swardstrom, J.E. Mac, David Adams, Ralph Kern, Patrice Fitzgerald, Kev Heritage, Jon Frater, Matthew Alan Thyer, Peter Cawdron, K.J. Fieler, Joseph Robert Lewis, C...

A-Bear Dropped a Tooth

It was a carrot stick that made it happen. First tooth gone. Check!

Moon Rise over East Passage

I think the light above Mount Rainier is a 737 on final to SeaTac, but otherwise not a bad picture for a guy with a phone. I took this while running along the beach tonight.

Kindergarten Practice

There are roughly twenty-five days of summer left for A-bear. Once they’re gone, he’s going to Kindergarten. This is a big new experience for our little guy, and so I’ve been examining our options. The duel questions — how can encourage him to be excited in anticipation of this new experience (even though it sometimes seems overwhelming and scary) and how can I, in parallel, continue to carve out enough time for me to write, has been riding on either of my shoulders.

Practice Lunch

Today we w...