[links] Link salad heads for Florida
A reader reacts to Green — She liked it, I think. Also, a comment on the Endurance cover.
A reader reacts to Mainspring — A bit more mixed.
Pod Castle with Ken Liu’s “State Change” — A story originally published in Polyphony 4, edited by Deborah Layne and me.
Confessions of a Slush Reader: Why Should I Care? — I don’t necessarily agree with everything in this article, but it’s interesting reading.
“Writeprint” — Your new word for day. Textual analysis as a forensic tool.
Potential Health Effects of Radiation Exposure — Fukushima, Japan and you.
Is the AIR Supposed to be Blue? — A discussion of radiation dispersal.
Some in GOP grow tired of right wing — Psst. GOP. Welcome to the real America. The vast majority of us have been sick of the right wing for years.
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pecunium on the GOP’s efforts to turn Michigan into a banana republic. — Small government, yep.
?otD: Atlantic or Gulf coast?
3/17/2011
Writing time yesterday: 1.75 hours (2,700 words on
Sunspin)
Body movement: airport walking to come
Hours slept: 5.5 hours (solid)
Weight: n/a (forgot)
Currently reading:
A Bard’s Eye View, ed. Michael A. Ventrella
Tags: audio, Books, Endurance, Green, Japan, Links, Mainstream, Personal, Politics, Polyphony, Process, Publishing, reviews
Posted: 4:19 am Thu March 17 2011 | Comments(1) |
[links] Link salad coins a phrase
Cascade Writers Workshop is now open for registration [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ] — If you’re interested in working with me, David Levine and Beth Meacham next summer, here’s your chance. Plus, how can you go wrong with a long weekend out on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula?
Language Log with more on the recent Jane Austen arguments
The B-side of Steve Jobs — Apple and the Beatles.
Other generations growing weary of Baby Boomers — Speaking as someone too young for Boomerhood and too old for Gen X, I’m weary of this whole generational dialectic.
How do you really know what time it is? — io.9 on the brain and time. I found this fascinating, because some of the assertions cited from neuroscience researchers don’t seem to apply to me. For example, the idea that the human brain is poor at assessing the objective passage of time. If I’m rested and not ill (ie, not on chemo), I almost always know what time it is to within 15 minutes, whether or not I have recent access to a clock. I can also tell myself when to wake up, and this will work almost all the time, again, even if I cannot see a clock from where I am sleeping. Interesting read.
Louisiana Citizens Horrified that there’s Evolution in Science Books — And yet somehow we have survived into the 21st century as an industrialized democracy. Why are we as a nation even having these conversations? We might as well be horrified that the Earth is not the center of the solar system.
That’s the Story? — Sigh. Anatomy of another of the endless parade of Republican lies that are reported without analysis or rebuttal in Your Liberal Media. With, you know, actual cites and facts and stuff, in case you think this is just more liberal bias.
?otD: Heads or tails?
11/18/2010
Writing time yesterday: 3.0 hours (7,800 new words on Kalimpura, to 77,400)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 5.5 hours (interrupted)
This morning’s weigh-in: 248.2 (!)
Yesterday’s chemo/post-op stress index: 2/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy, emotional distress)
Currently reading: Act of Will by A.J. Hartley
Tags: audio, Books, Culture, Language, Links, media, musc, Personal, Politics, Religion, Science, stories
Posted: 5:32 am Thu November 18 2010 | Comments(2) |
[links] Link salad gets puffed
METAtropolis: Cascadia has launched — Go check it out. Might be a nice Christmas present for someone in your life. Maybe even you…
A Cynic Looks At Life by Ambrose Bierce — An interesting review.
The Straight Dope on our Pacific Northwest slugs — With some great reader feedback.
Organs Made from Scratch — “Building blocks” containing gels turn cells into different types of tissue. Speaking as someone missing part or all of four major organ systems thanks to cancer surgery, erm, yes.
Carbon dioxide outburst spurred warming 40 million years ago — Nothing to see here. Your political dogma is mightier than the data. Move along, citizen, move along. (Snurched from Bad Astronomy.)
House Republican Wants His Government-Subsidized Health Care Now — More of that justly famed intellectual consistency from the highly principled American Right. A candidate who promises to repeal HCR wants to know what he will do without health insurance. What about the rest of us, Republican man?
How can Silvio Berlusconi still be in power? — The tragic genius of Berlusconi is that he appears to have convinced millions that his destiny is their destiny: everyone who is scared of becoming a victim of judicial persecution, who feels overtaxed, who fears that foreigners are condescendingly critical of the Italian way of life is subtly persuaded that getting rid of Silvio would leave them vulnerable and isolated. Wow. You could say almost the same thing about the Republican party in American life. Tragic genius, indeed.
?otD: Got steam?
11/17/2010
Writing time yesterday: 3.0 hours (7,900 new words on Kalimpura, to 69,600)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 6.25 hours (solid)
This morning’s weigh-in: 248.2 (!)
Yesterday’s chemo/post-op stress index: 2/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy, emotional distress)
Currently reading: Act of Will by A.J. Hartley
Tags: audio, Books, Cancer, health, healthcare, Links, nature, Personal, Politics, Science, stories
Posted: 5:39 am Wed November 17 2010 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad heads for the clinic again
Best SF likes “On the Human Plan”
The METAtropolis: Cascadia microsite is live — All the details, and some fun goodies there.
People like stuff that you don’t. That’s OK. — Kelly McCullough on genre wars. (Via M. as a blog comment.)
One Underwear Bomb = 10 Million Nudie Pics (The Question of Body Scanner Legality) — More on the new TSA rules, from a fellow unfortunate. (Via and .)
Is the Deficit Commission Serious? — Not hardly. More conservative political posturing with the usual disregard for those pesky true facts.
Our Banana Republic — C.E.O.’s of the largest American companies earned an average of 42 times as much as the average worker in 1980, but 531 times as much in 2001. Yep. That definitely explains why “real” America votes Republican.
?otD: Chest port or IV?
11/12/2010
Writing time yesterday: 2.0 hours (5,100 new words, to 51,600 words on Kalimpura)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 7.25 hours (solid)
This morning’s weigh-in: 245.4
Yesterday’s chemo/post-op stress index: 5/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy, emotional distress)
Currently reading: Between books
Tags: audio, Books, Links, Personal, Politics, Publishing, reviews, stories, Travel
Posted: 5:39 am Fri November 12 2010 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad explores obsolete vernacular
A sample clip of Rene Auberjonois reading my Metatropolis: Cascadia story, “The Bull Dancers” — A teaser clip which was great fun to hear.
The Fantasy Novelists Exam — I think Green only fails one of these questions, and even then it’s more in the letter than in the spirit. (Via barbarienne.)
Why steampunk is important — This may be one of the more sensible things I’ve seen written on this topic. (Thanks to tenacious_snail.)
Is the ebook the new hardback? — Publishers are speculating that they might amplify pre-paperback word of mouth by giving away digital editions. (Snurched from Scrivener’s Error, who has a lot to say about this.)
Genetic Secret to AIDS Immunity Found — Research offers insights into how some HIV-positive people are able to avoid the full-blown disease. Huh. Interesting. “HIV controllers”. And in population terms, this is biodiversity in action.
Dead Quasar Leaves Ghost Behind — One of the most ravenous beasts in the universe has evidently died, leaving behind an optical echo of its former self.
Bacteria ‘R’ Us — The number of bacterial species in the human gut is estimated to be about 40,000. It is to boggle. (Via bram452.)
Bearing fruit — Slacktivist on the eschatology of Tea Party voters, and the role of Left Behind in their current ethos.
1978 Letter from Douglas Fraser Resigning from the Labor-Management Group — A fascinating piece of political and labor history that is also startlingly honest.
Christian Nation: The Other Fundamentalist Perspective, Part 4 — Ed Brayton quotes Christian historian Gregg Frazer on the roots of the Constitution. Interesting stuff.
?otD: Whilom?
11/5/2010
Writing time yesterday: 1.5 hours (3,300 new words, to 14,400 words on Kalimpura — another full Lake and to spare)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 6.5 hours (solid)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday’s chemo/post-op stress index: 4/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy, emotional distress)
Currently reading: Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold
Tags: audio, Books, Cool, ebooks, Funny, Green, healthcare, Links, Personal, Politics, Process, Publishing, Religion, Science, steampunk, stories
Posted: 4:58 am Fri November 05 2010 | Comments(1) |
[publishing] METAtropolis: Cascadia – now it can be told
We’ve known for a while who the narrators of METAtropolis: Cascadia were slated to be. Now it can be told… Audible.com has provided an all Star Trek cast!
In order of appearance:
- “The Bull Dancers” by Jay Lake
Narrated By: Rene Auberjonois (“Odo”)
- “Water to Wine” by Mary Robinette Kowal
Narrated By: Kate Mulgrew (“Capt. Kathryn Janeway”)
- “Byways” by Tobias S. Buckell
Narrated By: Wil Wheaton (“Wesley Crusher”)
- “Confessor” by Elizabeth Bear
Narrated By: Gates McFadden (“Dr. Beverly Crusher”)
- “Deodand” by Karl Schroeder
Narrated By: Jonathan Frakes (“Cmdr. William Riker”)
- “A Symmetry of Serpents and Doves” by Ken Scholes
Narrated By: LeVar Burton (“Geordi La Forge”)
I am so stoked…
Tags: audio, Books, Cool, Publishing, stories
Posted: 5:56 am Wed October 27 2010 | Comments(2) |
[books] METAtropolis Cascadia cover art
As previously, discussed, on November 16th, Audible.com will release METAtropolis: Cascadia. This is the sequel to METAtropolis, was nominated for both the Hugo Award and the Audie Award (the top honor in the audiobook industry), as well as being published in print by both Subterranean Press and Tor.
The line-up is:
Here’s the blurb for the anthology:
As the mid-21st Century approaches, the Pacific Northwest has been transformed — politically, economically, and ecologically — into the new reality of Cascadia. Conspiracies and secrets threaten the tenuous threads of society. The End of Days seems nearer than ever. And the legend of the mysterious Tygre Tygre looms large.
Tags: Art, audio, Books, Publishing, stories
Posted: 5:57 am Tue October 19 2010 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad drives home in the misty dark
Midwest Book Review covers small presse releases, including the Fairwood Press release of my single-title novella, The Specific Gravity of Grief — Cancer is a vile mistress for many in life. “The Specific Gravity of Grief” is a combination of novel and memoir from Jay Lake as he combines his own experience with cancer into a novel which he relays as a life not quite his own, but telling his story. “The Specific Gravity of Grief” is a thoughtful take on the cancer story and the grief that follows the loss to the disease, highly recommended. (Via tbclone47.)
AUDIO REVIEW: The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 Edited by Allan Kaster — SF Signal, with a lukewarm mention of my short story, “On the Human Plan”.
Best SF reviews my short story “Human Error”
yuki_onna with a great question about male sexuality — She asks men to objectively describe their experiences of orgasm. All kinds of interesting things in comments. And to state the obvious, this link is NSFW, in that it will trigger keyword filters.
Rare Roman helmet goes to auction — An amazing find in Britain. (Via corwynofamber.)
Clouds, Birds, Moon, Venus — APOD channels Maxfield Parrish.
The Fool’s Cap Map of the World — A mighty strange late 16th century map from Strange Maps.
The Bomb Chroniclers — Secret corps of filmmakers documented nuclear tests. (Snurched from here.)
Geocentrism? Seriously? — For those times in your life when Creationism and Intelligent Design just aren’t stupid enough. Although Bad Astronomy says a number of interesting things about geocentrism in this post.
Hybrids May Thrive Where Parents Fear to Tread — (Thanks to Dad.)
[GOP Senate candidate] Angle on why she pulled out of debate she asked for: “We wanted an informed electorate” — The sad part is that statement probably makes sense to her voting base.
?otD: What’s your favorite city?
9/15/2010
Writing time yesterday: 1.5 hours (Sekrit Projekt, 1,800 words)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 6.5 (interrupted)
This morning’s weigh-in: 251.2
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 2/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy)
Currently reading: Worldshaker by Richard Harland
Tags: audio, Books, Cool, Culture, Grief, history, Links, Personal, Photos, Politics, Religion, reviews, Science, sex, stories
Posted: 5:03 am Wed September 15 2010 | Comments(1) |
[link] Link salad asks can you hear the thunder?
My short story “The Tentacled Sky” is up in audio at Drabblecast — A wee bit of Lovecraftian pastiche.
Launch Party: 1905 — Shorpy with an image I find a bit disorienting.
Your Own Hot Spot, and Cheap — And, maybe not so much. Boo on Virgin Mobile. (Both via my Dad.)
The Extraordinary Tale of Red Rain, Comets and Extraterrestrials — For years, claims have circulated that red rain which fell in India in 2001, contained cells unlike any found on Earth. Now new evidence that these cells can reproduce is about to set the debate alive.
Terraforming Ascension Island
Put up or shut up — Roger Ebert on the persistent and pernicious conservative lies about Obama.
The Truth-O-Meter report card on Glenn Beck — The amazing thing is that even one of his statements parsed as true. (Via .)
?otD: Which way does the water run when you flush the toilet?
9/3/2010
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (Worldcon)
Body movement: convention walking to come
Hours slept: 9.5 (solid)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 4/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy)
Currently (re)reading: Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin
Tags: audio, Links, Personal, Photos, Politics, Science, stories, Tech
Posted: 3:16 pm Thu September 02 2010 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad wakes up, still on the far side of the world
Nick Gevers discusses steampunk on BBC’s World Service
Adjectives from country names? — Another fun post from Language Log. Be sure to check out the comments.
Retirement Haven Hunts Youthful Violators — A weird twist on the ongoing economic crisis in America.
Olbermann on religious intolerance in the US — Attention Islamaphobes: We have this little thing called the First Amendment. May I recommend it to you? I am certain conservatives of all stripes are with me on this, being the strict Constitutionalists that they are.
The D’Oh of Xenophobia — Must be hard to be a wing nut in America and keep up properly with the hate list…
?otD: Have you seen the Southern Cross?
8/30/2010
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (convention time)
Body movement: urban walking to come
Hours slept: 10.25 (interrupted)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 5/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy)
Currently (re)reading: Deliverer by C.J. Cherryh
Tags: audio, Culture, Language, Links, Personal, Politics, Religion, steampunk
Posted: 12:26 pm Sun August 29 2010 | Comments(5) |
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