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Jhegaala – Spoilers

July 6th, 2008 · 133 Comments

Another place to talk about the book.

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Tags: Book Discussions · Books · Steve

Jhegaala – No Spoilers

July 6th, 2008 · 63 Comments

A place to talk about the book.

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Reading is decreasing?

June 10th, 2008 · 33 Comments

Elizabeth Bear linked to this article in her blog today about how the top authors feel pressure from their publishers to produce a book a year. I don’t have any issue with the main thrust of the article, but what interests me is the first sentence. In an age when reading for pleasure is declining, [...]

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Tags: Books · Politics

What Should I Talk About?

June 6th, 2008 · 37 Comments

The Tor/Forge newsletter is featuring Gigolo…uh, Jhegaala…and wants 500-575 words from me about the book, the series, or something related, or maybe something unrelated.  I’m drawing a blank.  What should I talk about?

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Jhegaala Auction Ends Today

May 18th, 2008 · 16 Comments

A reminder to those interested: The auction of the signed proof of Steve’s new novel, Jhegaala, ends today. Good luck to those who have been bidding on it. For all you other eager readers, the novel itself will be out July 8. As mentioned in the comments previously, we’re going to restrict discussion of the [...]

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Woot! Woot!

May 15th, 2008 · 7 Comments

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow is on the NYT Bestseller list!  The good guys win.

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Auctioning off Jhegaala bound galley

May 11th, 2008 · 21 Comments

So, after I was convinced that reviewers putting bound galleys up for sale wasn’t the dastardly act I’d thought it was (thanks, Patrick), the next obvious step was to do it myself.  The ebay auction can be found here.

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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

April 18th, 2008 · 6 Comments

It’s a YA about techno-geek kids saving the world. Afterword by Bruce Schneier. It will be out from Tor in less than a fortnight. Buy it, read it, love it.

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Tags: Books · Reviews

Um…

March 30th, 2008 · 26 Comments

“In his lifetime, he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen; once dead, he is not even the ghost he was then.” — Jorge Luis Vorges, “Tlön,Uqbar, Orbis Tercius” Can someone please tell me what this means?

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RIP Arthur C Clarke

March 18th, 2008 · 25 Comments

A friend just informed me about the death of Arthur C. Clarke. I’m sad to hear we’ve lost another grandmaster of SF. I still remember laying in bed in the basement of my grandmother’s vacation house one summer, ignoring my family’s entreaties to go to the beach or interact with them so that I could [...]

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