I have so many things to say! For one thing, Kelly & Kessel have announced the ToC for a new anthology, Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology, a sort of omnibus of the singularity back to Stapledon, Asimov, and Pohl and forward to Doctorow, Robson, Stross, and Rajaniemi… and my story “The Inevitable Heat Death of [...]

“Dolly” is in amazing company. The Best Science Fiction of the Year Three • Ken MacLeod Dolly • Elizabeth Bear Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Raindeer • Ken Liu Tethered • Mercurio Rivera Wahala • Nnedi Okorafor Laika’s Ghost • Karl Schroeder Ragnarok • Paul Park Six Months, Three Days • Charlie Jane Anders And [...]

…just what it says on the box. The book is called One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King, and my editor for this project is Paula Guran. It’s the fifth in the series, but it absolutely works as a stand-alone novel. I’m so psyched.

Last week, Batwrangler and I made our annual February “cheaper than a trip to a real tropical rainforest” trip to Logee’s Greenhouse in Danielson, CT. It’s an amazing place, well worth a visit if you find yourself within an hour’s drive. There are full-sized citrus trees rooted in the earthen floors, arching overhead, their many [...]

After the death of Mongke Khagan, the heirs to the Khaganate of the steppes went to war. Defeated by his cousin, the rightful heir Temur flees, joining a caravan of refugees headed toward mountains known as the Range of Ghosts. Adopted into the Tsareg tribe, Temur plans revenge while avoiding sorcerous attempts on his own [...]

Episode 9 of the SF Squeecast is live: the Awkward Episode! In which Lynne Thomas, Catherynne Valente, and I team up with special guest star Scott Lynch (aka that boy I like) for a special Valentine’s-Day lovefest. Wherein we embarrass the hell out of each other, and Paul Cornell and Seanan McGuire, who could not [...]

There will be spoilers! If anything, I think on a sentence level, the writing in this book is even stronger than in the previous one, and a lot of the emotional through-lines are stronger. The characters are better-developed in their emotions and loyalties, and it’s nice to see Jean and Locke’s relationship complicated by internal [...]

See some of you there! Dressing the Parties — Regalia and Symbolism (Panel), Fri 18:00 – 19:00, Harbor III (Westin) Autographing: Elizabeth Bear (Autographing), Sat 10:00 – 11:00, Galleria-Autographing (Westin) Certainty Is For Wimps: Unstable Reality In SF (Panel), Sat 14:00 – 15:00, Harbor III (Westin) Reading: Elizabeth Bear (Reading), Sat 16:00 – 16:30, Independence [...]

So, for reasons of my own****, this week in the fog of post-novel ennui I sat down to reread the two published novels by that boy I like, for the first time since their respective releases. The good news is, I still like ‘em. And I stand by everything I said about them back in [...]

The web-pixies at Tor.com have posted an excerpt of Range of Ghosts, in which we meet a young semi-nomadic warrior named Temur, who is having an exceedingly bad day… By “bad day,” I mean that it starts with vultures. And goes downhill. The  cover copy says: Temur, grandson of the Great Khan, is walking away [...]