Meet-Up + Tazza

A few things:

THING ONE

Over the last couple of weeks, Holly Black and I have been blogging over at Babel Clash, discussing Zombies Versus Unicorns, mostly. Here are the last four posts we did:

"The Meaning of Versus," by me.

"Passing Between Worlds," by Holly.

"Ten Reasons Why Robots Are Better than Monkeys," by Holly.

And of course "Ten Reasons Why Monkeys Are Better than Robots," by me.

THING TWO

I didn't attend many of the Forum meet-ups last year, but I want to do better this year. So this Saturday, January 22 at 7PM, Eastern Time (in the US), I shall be at the Forum! That's 11AM Sunday in Australian Eastern Time, and midnight between the two days in London. (Sorry.) Come and ask questions and hang out!

THING THREE

Via BoingBoing.net, some cool footage of an actual thylacine, like Tazza in the Leviathan series.

As you know from the Afterword of Leviathan, Tasmanian tigers are real creatures, or were until they went extinct in 1936 or so. So when writing Tazza, I had to use old footage like this to figure out how they would act and move. It's kind of wondrous and sad, watching a movie of an extinct animal.