I have my first pair of new glasses since 2009. I can see leaves on trees! And freckles on the lovely person who helped fit my glasses! In other news, I am apparently nominated for four separate Locus awards in four separate Locus award categories: Novella, novelette, short story, and collection. All three of the [...]

I’ve been down with a stomach bug for a couple of days, which is no fun–it’s interfering with my attempt to return to climbing twice a week, for one thing. Still, I managed an 11 mile run last week, so it’s probably not a bad time for a little enforced rest. I’ll be skipping my [...]

Specifically, I just finished recording a Titanium Physicists podcast with host Dr. Ben Tippett, Dr. Amanda Bauer, and Zach Weiner, which was about the most fun you can have without attending grad school. The topic was the physics of lightning, and not only did I learn a ton (Amanda is studying lightning on other planets [...]

Item! I have a new story up at Tor.com today. “Faster Gun.“ It’s hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean, and a hundred times too big to be a ship. It looks like nothing anyone ever saw. And it’s crashed just outside Tombstone with something alive inside. And John Henry Holliday is just the man [...]

In which I participate in a round table at SF Signal with Beaulieu, Stross, and Zeigler.

My dear Mr. Lynch and I are interviewed at Adventures In Sci-Fi Publishing. It’s our first joint interview, and I am tongue-tied and we are collectively offensively cute. photo credit Shelly Rae Clift Our bit starts around 22:30, but I recommend the whole podcast. Additionally, SF SQUEECAST #6 is live: a very special Thanksgiving episode [...]

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