[conventions] AussieCon 4, Day Four
Yesterday was great good fun. Had a panel on post-steampunk, spent time at BarCon, and, of course the Hugos. Even with a nap, I spent the pre-reception largely sitting down. and I did the Campbell presentation to the lovely and talented . I even managed an hour or so of the loser’s party. W00t.
A combination of short sleep and morning commitments mean the usual blogging is deferred. I’m off in a bit for an interview, a kaffeeklatsch, and an informal signing. Then more BarCon, followed by Dead Dogging. Tourism tomorrow and Wednesday, after that we’re back home across the Big Water.
Tags: Australia, Awards, Conventions, Travel
Posted: 4:12 pm Sun September 05 2010 | Comments(0) |
[conventions] AussieCon 4, Day Three
Another good day yesterday. Had a panel on steampunk that went well, then a signing next to George R.R. Martin. See this hilarious photo. I have no idea what was actually going on in that moment, but I look like I’m in extreme pain.
Nice lunch with dave_gallaher and dinogrl, then back to the hotel for my usual nap. (Sigh.) We hied off to the bar, then to a rather curious dinner in good company, including several Not Usual suspects (seanan_mcguire, Hugo (and Nebula) nominee Will McIntosh, carolryles and A.A.A.). Strange stories were told concerning long pig franchises, carnival junk yards and fatal pornography fires, among other thing, Moreton Bay bugs were eaten (though not by me!), I had an odd food reaction that featured undulating floors and a vanishing South Asian gentleman, then danjite got the entire meal comped.
Back at the bar things turned into something of a who’s who of speculative fiction, but I turned into a pumpkin and headed for a long night’s sleep, leaving calendula_witch to hold down our partying responsibilities.
Today a panel on what comes after steampunk, then the Hugos with all they entail. Will be a difficult but fun evening for me, methinks.
Tags: Australia, Awards, Calendula, Conventions, Food, steampunk
Posted: 4:07 pm Sat September 04 2010 | Comments(1) |
[cool] David Anthony Durham is awesome
This just in:
David Anthony Durham is made of pure 100% USDA prime grade awesome.
(I just unpacked the Campbell tiara he sent me, to check its integrity. Awesome, awesome, awesome.)
Tags: Awards, Cool, Funny
Posted: 6:00 pm Wed September 01 2010 | Comments(3) |
[conventions] Where to find Jay at AussieCon 4
I will generally be in the Crowne Plaza bar, I believe, when not on programming or otherwise engaged. If you know me well enough to have my American cell phone number, I can be texted via that number. (Please don’t call except in emergencies.)
Programming:
Friday
12:00 noon – Room 211 – Keeping Pace: Maintaining Momentum in Fiction
4:30 pm – Room 207 – Reading (30 minutes)
Saturday
10:00 am – Room 213 – The Steampunk Playground
12:00 noon – Room 201 – Signing
Sunday
11:00 am – Room 219 – Anachronistic Fiction: Successors to Steampunk
2:00 pm – P2 – Hugo Rehearsal
7:00 pm – P2 – Hugo Awards
Monday
12:00 noon – Room 201 – Kaffeeklatsch
See some, all or none of you here!
Tags: Australia, Awards, Conventions
Posted: 5:53 pm Wed September 01 2010 | Comments(0) |
[conventions] AussieCon 4 Schedule
Here is my programming schedule for AussieCon, for those interested.
Fri 1200 Rm 211: Keeping pace: maintaining momentum in fiction
Fri 1600 Rm 207: Reading
Sat 1000 Rm 213: The steampunk playground
Sat 1200 Rm 201: Signing
Sun 1100 Rm 219: Anachronistic fiction: successors to steampunk
I will also be attending the Hugo ceremony both as Stephan Martiniere’s designated acceptor, and as keeper of the Campbell tiara.
I do not yet have a schedule for Au Contraire, but I believe I’ll be on programming there as well.
See some, all or none of you there.
Tags: Australia, Awards, Conventions, New Zealand, Travel
Posted: 9:49 am Sun August 22 2010 | Comments(1) |
[links] Link salad salutes Cheryl Morgan
A Genre Like Any Other — Cheryl Morgan on the Booker Prize and SF.
Three vintage book jackets
Library of Congress: 1905 and Library of Congress: 2007 — A cool pair of shots.
Outer Alliance Spotlight #43: Cheryl Morgan — Speaking of Cheryl…
About Portland, Oregon — An artist’s perspective.
Worst wedding present ever — Oh, wow.
New Focus for Digital Photography — Software that gives users more control of a camera could revolutionize photography.
Lunar triple sunset — Mmm.
?otD: Tastes great, or less filling?
7/31/2010
Writing time yesterday: 3 hours, 30 minutes (revisions, WRPA)
Body movement: n/a (travel day)
Hours slept: 7.25 (interrupted)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 4/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy)
Currently (re)reading: Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh
Tags: Art, Awards, Books, Culture, Funny, Links, Personal, Photos, Portland, Publishing, Science
Posted: 5:52 pm Sat July 31 2010 | Comments(1) |
[links] Link salad chills in its own private Idaho
Free the Princess reviews Mainspring
Dan Dos Santos nominated for a Chesley Award for the cover of my book Green — Go Dan!
Dead Ox Flat: 1939 — A photo from Malheur County, Oregon. If you have any French, you’ll appreciate the name.
Face in Space — Ok, this is cool.
Scientists Find 5,500-Year-Old Preserved Shoe In Cave — So that’s what I did with it…
The Secret Powers of Time — How people perceive, and live inside their perceptions, of time. Not sure the religious angle is utterly helpful, and there’s definitely a “oi these kids today” angle, but still interesting. (Via Freakonomics.)
Teachers have a right to free speech, too — Intolerance of diversity has become a bit of a personal issue for me in the last year or so, therefore this story strikes home in more ways than the obvious.
SMBC on Britain’s treatment of Alan Turing
Non Sequitur twits the Tea Party again — And nicely so.
Hispanics flee Arizona ahead of immigration law — Move along, citizen. Nothing to see here.
Saudi Clerics Advocate Adult Breast-Feeding — Unlawful mixing between the sexes is taken very seriously in Saudi Arabia. In March 2009, a 75-year-old Syrian widow, Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, living in the city of Al-Chamil, was given 40 lashes and sentenced to six months in prison after the religious police learned that two men who were not related to her were in her house, delivering bread to her. And people wonder why I’m an atheist. (Thanks, I think, to .)
George W. Bush, Torture President — I am shocked, shocked to find gambling going on here. Also, this just in: sun rises in east.
?otD: Do you have your own private time zone?
6/10/2010
Writing time yesterday: n/a (chemo exhaustion)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 9.5 (solid)
This morning’s weigh-in: 227.2
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 7/10 (sleepless night)
Currently (re)reading:
The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett
Tags: Art, Awards, Books, Cool, Culture, Links, Mainspring, Oregon, Personal, Photos, Politics, Religion, reviews, Science, Videos
Posted: 5:45 am Thu June 10 2010 | Comments(1) |
[links] Link salad knows that some things they come too soon, some things they come too late
Gardner Dozois reviews The Book of Dreams — In which my story “Testaments” appears.
The New Weird discussed — In which I am mentioned passim.
Some Thoughts on the Hugo Short-Form Editor Category: Sheila Williams and Asimov’s — What he said.
Republic XF-84H “Thunderscreech” — The write up on this x planes is weird and oddly hilarious.
Martian avalanche — Wow.
Progressive Education — Last month Juneau County (WI) District Attorney Scott Southworth sent out 24 letters to top officials in the county 5 school districts telling them to suspend sex education classes in their schools or face possible charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Don’t you love conservatives?
Glenn Greenwald on the Iraq massacre video — This story is worth following regardless of your politics or your views on the Iraq War. This is what we do to people.
Heritage! — The Edge of the American West on the conservative celebration of insurrection and the good old days of slavery. Confederate heritage is not a noble thing, and I say this as a son of the South. And yes, Governor McDonnell walked it back. Credit where credit is due.
?otD: Is it best to arrive ahead of time so you have some time to wait?
4/8/2010
Writing time yesterday: 60 minutes
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 7.25 (solid)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 3/10
Currently reading: [between books]
Tags: Awards, Culture, Iraq, Links, Personal, Photos, Politics, Publishing, Religion, reviews, Science, sex, stories
Posted: 4:42 am Thu April 08 2010 | Comments(1) |
[awards] Hugo noms submitted
Finally got my Hugo noms in. Of special note, is Campbell-eligible for “Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story.” Also, I gave some love in Best Fan Artist for her jewelry and other work as Springtime Creations. And because I have no shame, I nominated myself for Best Fan Writer, along with various other categories as noted here.
Remember, vote early and vote often!
Tags: Art, Awards, Calendula, Conventions, Writing
Posted: 10:43 am Sat March 13 2010 | Comments(0) |
[awards] Final Hugo pimpage
We’re near the end of the Hugo nominations window, so I thought I’d a last updated pimpage here.
My favorite picks are in bold with *.
2009 Published Science Fiction:
* “On the Human Plan“; Lone Star Stories; February, 2009 [short story]
* “Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story“ (with Shannon Page); Clarkesworld; April, 2009 [short story]
* “To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Yourselves”; The New Space Opera 2, ed. Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, Eos, April, 2009 [novelette] [in Sunspin continuity]
“Leopard“; Jim Baen’s Universe, June, 2009 [short story]
“Black Heart, White Mourning”; Grant’s Pass, ed. Jennifer Brozek and Amanda Pillar, Morrigan Books; August, 2009 [short story]
* “Chain of Stars“; Subterranean, October, 2009 – [novella] [In Mainspring continuity]
“Last Drink Bird Head”; Last Drink Bird Head, ed. Jeff vanderMeer; Ministry of Whimsy Press, October, 2009 [flash]
* Death of a Starship; MonkeyBrain Books, November, 2009 [novel]
2009 Published Fantasy:
* “Golden Pepper“; Flash Fiction Online; February, 2009 [flash]
“The True Secret of Magic”, as Joe Edwards; Crime Spells, ed. Martin H. Greenberg and Loren Coleman, DAW; February, 2009 [short story]
“Witness to the Fall”; Crime Spells, ed. Martin H. Greenberg and Loren Coleman, DAW; February, 2009 [short story]
“To Stone” (with Shannon Page); Morrigan eZine, May, 2009 [short story]
* Green; Tor Books, June, 2009 [novel]
“People of Leaf and Branch“; Fantasy; June, 2009 [short story] [in Green continuity]
“Tale of the Poet and the Dog”; Japanese Dreams, ed. Sean Wallace, Prime Books; Summer, 2009 [short story]
“An Elderly Pirate Recalls the Death of Love”; Electric Velocipede Issue 17/18 [short story]
* “Red Dirt Kingdoms”; Realms of Fantasy, October, 2009 [short story]
Madness of Flowers; Night Shade Books, November, 2009 [novel]
“Bone Island” (with Shannon Page); Interzone, Fall, 2009 [novelette]
“Shedding Skin; Or How the World Came to Be”; Shimmer (Clockwork Jungle Issue), Fall, 2009 [short story]
I also note immodestly that is Campbell-eligible this year.
Tags: Awards, Books, convention, Green, stories, Writing
Posted: 7:09 pm Tue March 09 2010 | Comments(0) |
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