Jlawrence’s Comments (group member since Mar 08, 2010)

Jlawrence’s comments from the The Sword and Laser group.

*hangs head in mod shame*

The short story "The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew" is what Valente expanded/altered to create Radiance, and it's available for free on Clarkesworld, in both text and audio format. The audio is her reading it!

http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valen...

http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio...

I really want to read it (as in now), but since I'm 40% into Radiance I'm also afraid it might be spoilery? You can see right from the beginning that Severin is named Bysshe here, but Percival Unck is Percival Unck and the central mystery of the novel seems to the story's focus, so I think I'll have to wait til I finish Radiance - fascinated to check it out then!

Wow, I missed this announcement until today because I've been a horrible neglecter of Goodreads/Sword & Laser over the break!

I'm a huge fan of Valente's and have wanted us to read her for a long time. Radiance in particular I did find hard to get in sync with at first, despite loving its alternate-history/planetary-tinseltown world, but further along I got into its groove and am very excited to see where it goes and what the reactions are.

Hope the Dec 1 meetup went well, even if Bob was not cocktail-fueled!

Our next meetup will be Monday, Jan 25.

RSVP here

OK, the meetup date is officially moved to Tue, Dec 1! Have fun, guys! :)

RSVP if you haven't

Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "Hey Josh Lawrence when are we going to get episodes of the "Josh Lawrence Goes to a Meetup" podcast? :)"

I'd have to start a Patreon for it first, just too lazy. ;)

Next meeting will be Monday, Nov 30!

RSVP here!

Yes, it was awesome to meet Guy in Suit who suspiciously looked and sounded similar to Fresno Bob....

Wonderful interview! I loved that the first Fairyland book's title was a joke that got taken seriously ("so never joke!"). Radiance is waiting on my Kindle, and I'm also going to have read Stephen King's IT now, since she mentioned it in her answer to my "what books made you want to be come a writer?" question...

Fresno Bob wrote: "I read the book and enjoyed it very much, I'm going to try to make it, but if I do, you all are going to learn my secret identity, "Guy in Suit""

:O :O :O :O

What are the books she fell in love with enough to want to become a writer?

She mentioned at a FogCon panel this year that the complex web of stories-within-stories in The Orphan's Tales books grew organically without planning. To what degree has this been the case with her other novels?

With the AI-themed Silently and Very Fast, various short stories, and the upcoming Radiance (very excited about that!), she seems to be dipping into science fiction more often recently. Are there particular things she'd like to see done in science fiction (by herself or others)? Particular enjoyments/challenges of writing science fiction instead of fantasy?

What would she like to see done/more of in fantasy (once again, by herself or others)?

Keidy, glad you made it and got to meet Ann Leckie! Successful birthday indeed! :)

Michele, it's Mon, Oct. 26. I was delinquent adding the event, but now it's up:

>> RSVP for Oct 26 meetup

Anyone else going to Convolution this weekend at the Hyatt Regency SFO? I'm going tomorrow (Sat) to catch the Sword & Laser panel at 10am.

It turns out I'm not going to make it next Monday's (Sept 28) meetup, but I *can* make it to that Ann Leckie/Greg Bear appearance Oct 10th! I've made an event for it:

RSVP for Ann Leckie and Greg Bear at Borderlands, Sat, Oct 10, 3pm

David, the Oct meetup should be Mon, Oct 26 - I'll confirm when I have that for sure.

We had a great turnout last night, and it especially fun to meet forum moderator Rob in person!

Next meetup is Mon, Sept 28 -

RSVP here

Whoohoo on a year plus for us!

I'm sorry I didn't make it to the Walton event Sun. Anyone else make it?

We had a great turnout for bookclub last night, and, in what might be a first, EVERYONE had finished the book! :D

Next bookclub meetup is Mon, Aug 31
RSVP for bookclub

(I won't make the Aug bookclub, that day I'll be returning from lazing at Lake Shasta.)

I also created an event for the Jo Walton receiving the Tiptree Award party on Sun, Aug 9, since it sounded like Keidy could make that during her visit and Ian sounded interested too:
RSVP for Jo Walton party

Thanks, Ian!

Keidy, bummer! I'll be on the lookout for any August author events we could add as S&L events.

Borderlands is having an author event (Hugh Howey!) the last Monday of this month, and that uses the cafe, so our meetup will be the last Tuesday instead - Tue, July 28th.

RSVP here!

I'll likely make an meetup event for Howey as well, because heck yeah we should go to that, too.

And please feel free to add an S&L meetup for an author event in the Bay Area that you think people might be interested in. I've been focusing on Borderlands events because it's easy/convenient, but it'd be great for us to branch out and see more, and in various locations, so people who can't make SF can make other meetups.

Haha, a friend of mine on Facebook spotted the group photo we took at the Snapfish booth:

https://www.facebook.com/snapfish/pho...

Yay group photos!

Here's the one Veronica posted on Twitter, when we were in line for Scalzi's talk:


Evidence of even more S&L-ites in attendance: that's Sky's elbow on the left, and Andrew's beard in the center back, behind Ian.

I'm likely not going to make Bacigalupi at Borderlands today, but anyone who goes, let us know how it was!

And finally, you can now RSVP for the Mon, June 29 bookclub meetup!