Ian Tregillis

Ian Tregillis is a novelist, scientist, screenwriter, man of leisure, and mammal. His alternative history trilogy, The Milkweed Triptych, is forthcoming from Tor books, starting in 2009. Enjoy your stay, but do mind the tentacles.

Recent Blog Entries:

Saturday, June 13 2009, 01:32 PM Tuesday, May 12 2009, 10:26 PM Saturday, May 2 2009, 10:36 PM Tuesday, April 28 2009, 06:07 PM Tuesday, April 14 2009, 04:36 PM Thursday, April 9 2009, 10:13 AM Wednesday, April 8 2009, 10:39 AM Monday, April 6 2009, 08:54 PM Friday, April 3 2009, 11:42 PM Sunday, March 29 2009, 05:11 PM

Blog Archive

2009

June

There's A Trick To It: Don't Get Bitten - 06/13/09 1:32 PM

May

Losing the Senescence Lottery - 05/12/09 10:26 PM
True Story - 05/02/09 10:36 PM

April

Two Awesome Books Available Today - 04/28/09 6:7 PM
Endings Matter (Part 3 of 2) - 04/14/09 4:36 PM
The 33rd Annual Jack Williamson Lectureship - 04/09/09 10:13 AM
Management Services: Contact Problems - 04/08/09 10:39 AM
Endings Matter (Part 2 of 2) - 04/06/09 8:54 PM
Endings Matter (Part 1 of 2) - 04/03/09 11:42 PM

March

Suicide Kings, Minus Christopher Walken - 03/29/09 5:11 PM
Don't Be Evil... Unless There's a Good Angle To It - 03/20/09 11:43 PM
Who's Crazy Now? - 03/16/09 9:38 PM
Watchmen, or, Philistine, Thy Name is Ian - 03/09/09 12:47 PM
Mass Signing Chaos in Albuquerque Tomorrow - 03/06/09 4:21 PM
Palimpsest - 03/05/09 2:56 AM

February

Hey, Who Replaced My Favorite Adventure Yarn With This Zoology Textbook? - 02/26/09 10:17 PM
Next Time You're in Boston, Can You Swing Through Brooklyn And Pick Up Some Macaroons? - 02/24/09 4:28 AM
Publication Dates - 02/23/09 4:58 AM
Contestants, The Clock Will Begin When The Last Glacier Recedes. Ready? Go! - 02/11/09 4:20 AM
Download a FREE PDF of C. C. Finlay's New Novel, The Patriot Witch - 02/07/09 1:42 AM
Boskone 46, Lensmen 0 - 02/03/09 2:33 AM
Moving to Big Iron - 02/01/09 4:42 AM

2008

December

5 Songs You Never Hear While on Hold - 12/11/08 8:44 PM
The State of the World: Busted - 12/09/08 9:4 AM

October

"Boo," Said the Lunatic in Boston - 10/31/08 8:29 AM
Because He's Twice as Talented As the Rest - 10/17/08 8:5 AM
I Could Watch Bill Nighy Read the Phone Book - 10/14/08 8:21 PM
"Checkmate," Said our Clockwork Overlords - 10/09/08 6:21 PM
Just Because I Love Clocks Doesn't Mean I Update the Blog in a Timely Fashion - 10/01/08 7:51 AM

August

Schedules - 08/04/08 10:46 AM

July

Slivers of Ticks, and Tatters of Tocks - 07/23/08 1:44 PM
Having Cheated Death, I Now Await My Superpowers - 07/21/08 11:39 AM
Love, Freeze Rays, and Supervillainy - 07/15/08 5:10 PM
A Long Overdue Update, In List Form - 07/13/08 9:49 PM

May

Could This Be The End For Mr. Calliope? - 05/30/08 9:24 AM
Killer Robots and Their Telepathic Monkey Overlords - 05/28/08 2:50 PM
It's Not Supervillainy, But It's Getting There - 05/23/08 3:28 PM
Contact - 05/22/08 3:53 PM
Babylonian Steampunkery - 05/20/08 9:11 AM
A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale - 05/19/08 1:8 PM
Live from Rio Hondo, 2: No Bear Attacks (Yet) - 05/14/08 4:54 PM

Live from Rio Hondo - 05/13/08 2:16 PM
They Say They Were Laughing With Me - 05/10/08 2:0 PM
Occupational Hazards of the Writing Life - 05/08/08 9:1 AM
Done, With 4 Days to Spare - 05/01/08 2:36 PM

April

Conveyances for a More Civilized Time - 04/30/08 8:50 AM
I'd Be Delighted With Three - 04/29/08 10:28 AM
The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics - 04/28/08 6:23 PM
Because Some Things Never Go Out of Style - 04/24/08 1:13 PM
An Alternative History of 1982-Today - 04/22/08 1:6 PM
Reasons Why Squirrels Are Smarter Than I Am (Part 2 of N) - 04/21/08 11:38 AM
Adobe Site of the Day! - 04/17/08 9:34 PM

Reasons Why Squirrels are Smarter Than I Am (Part 1 of N) - 04/10/08 2:52 PM
Hello, Deviantartists! - 04/06/08 11:26 AM
Crimes Against Grammar (Real, Perceived, and Premeditated) - 04/04/08 2:58 PM
United States of America v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins - 04/02/08 7:27 PM

March

Match it For Pratchett, redux: Watch This Space! - 03/25/08 10:7 AM
Match It For Pratchett - 03/23/08 8:38 PM
Orbital Attack Electromagnets, part II - 03/13/08 9:32 PM
Why Stuff is Boring (A Case Study) - 03/11/08 8:52 PM
Because the Best Shows Explain the Premise in the Theme Song - 03/05/08 7:56 PM
Cosmology 101: The Sun is Held in Place by Six Eiffel Towers - 03/02/08 8:47 PM

February

Look Out in the Black-Out! - 02/28/08 10:6 PM
Opulent, Glamorous, & Smelly - 02/23/08 9:23 PM
Free eBooks with a side of Orbital Attack Electromagnets - 02/11/08 6:35 PM
Axis Mundi - 02/10/08 12:22 PM
The Floating Arcology: Breeding Ground for Supervillainy - 02/07/08 9:46 PM
The Inside Straight Signing: Standing Room Only - 02/03/08 12:0 AM
On signings, and the importance of chocolate - 02/02/08 10:10 AM

There's A Trick To It: Don't Get Bitten

Recent Blog Entries:

There's A Trick To It: Don't Get Bitten - 6/13/2009, 01:32 PM Losing the Senescence Lottery - 5/12/2009, 10:26 PM True Story - 5/2/2009, 10:36 PM Two Awesome Books Available Today - 4/28/2009, 06:07 PM Endings Matter (Part 3 of 2) - 4/14/2009, 04:36 PM The 33rd Annual Jack Williamson Lectureship - 4/9/2009, 10:13 AM Management Services: Contact Problems - 4/8/2009, 10:39 AM Endings Matter (Part 2 of 2) - 4/6/2009, 08:54 PM Endings Matter (Part 1 of 2) - 4/3/2009, 11:42 PM Suicide Kings, Minus Christopher Walken - 3/29/2009, 05:11 PM

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Saturday, June 13 2009, 01:32 PM

Suicide Kings, the final volume of the Wild Cards "Committee Triad", will be hitting shelves this December. But, if you need a preview to hold you over for the next 6 months -- or if you love crocodiles, Tarzan, and pith helmets -- then GRRM has got you covered.

As he mentioned on his Not-A-Blog the other day, he has posted a Suicide Kings sample excerpt on his website. This excerpt stars the one-and-only Rustbelt, and is part of my contribution to the novel. The scene in question became the basis for the Suicide Kings cover art, which you can see here. Once again, Michael Komarck knocked it out of the park. (I have a framed print of this art hanging in my writing office, courtesy of my friends Ty and Jayne.)

I had a great time working on Suicide Kings. Not only because I got to spend so much time playing around with Rusty, but also because I got to work closely with some really amazing writers.

If you ask me, Suicide Kings is the strongest novel in the Committee Triad. I can only hope others will agree.

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untitled - Ty, Sunday, June 14 2009, 03:38 AM
Woulda been better with crocochucks. But it's pretty good even without them.

Croco-chucks - Ian, Sunday, June 14 2009, 09:33 PM
Yeah. I should have lobbied harder for the croco-chucks. Oh, well. I'll know better next time.

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Ian Tregillis is a novelist, scientist, screenwriter, man of leisure, and mammal. His alternative history trilogy, The Milkweed Triptych, is forthcoming from Tor books, starting in 2009. Enjoy your stay, but do mind the tentacles.

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Interviews

An interview with the authors of Busted Flush at Pat's Fantasy Hotlist

Interview with Travis Heermann at The Write Line

9-way interview with the contributors to the Wild Cards novel Inside Straight at Pat's Fantasy Hotlist

Interview in the February, 2008 newsletter of the Online Writing Workshop for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

An extended interview with Ian Tregillis by Ty Franck, on www.wildcardsbooks.com.

Mass Signing for Busted Flush

4 PM, Saturday, March 7, 2009
Page One Books, Albuquerque, NM

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