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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Praise for the
Milkweed Triptych
"A major talent... I can't wait to see more."
—George R. R. Martin
"Mad English warlocks battling twisted Nazi psychics? Yes please, thank you. Tregillis's debut has a white-knuckle plot, beautiful descriptions, and complex characters-- an unstoppable Vickers of a novel."
—Cory Doctorow on Bitter Seeds
"Ian Tregillis triumphantly concludes his astonishing, brilliant, pulse-pounding debut trilogy, The Milkweed Triptych."
—Cory Doctorow on Necessary Evil
"Tregillis' conclusion of the Milkweed Triptych is the pièce de résistance of the series. Necessary Evil is a perfect marriage of science fiction, fantasy and alternate history."
—RT Book Reviews (4.5 stars, Top Pick) on Necessary Evil
"Darkly fascinating…A thoroughly fascinating conclusion to an imaginative tour de force."
—Kirkus on Necessary Evil
"A cross between the devious, character-driven spy fiction of early John le Carré and the mad science fantasy of the X-Men... Despite the jaw-dropping backdrop and oblique plotting, the narrative is driven by character and personal circumstance...
Grim indeed, yet eloquent and utterly compelling."
Grim indeed, yet eloquent and utterly compelling."
—Kirkus on The Coldest War
"The characters come alive via [Tregillis's] imaginative dialogue and his storyline will keep readers spellbound and on the edge of their seats with an intense sci-fi/alternate history thriller plot."
—RT Book Reviews (4.5 stars, Top Pick) on The Coldest War
"Well-drawn characters and a feel for time and place make this an excellent journey into an alternate Britain."
—Library Journal on Bitter Seeds
"Engrossing... Tregillis ably mixes cold war paranoia with his mythology."
—Publishers Weekly on The Coldest War
Close
Announcing the NECESSARY EVIL Signing Tour - 04/05/13 5:15 PM
Guest Post #2 at Charlie Stross's Blog - 02/17/13 4:41 PM
Guest Post at Charlie Stross's Blog - 02/15/13 9:17 PM
A Conversation with Charlie Stross - 02/08/13 11:6 AM
NOW OUT in the UK: THE COLDEST WAR - 02/07/13 12:22 AM
Holy Smokes! Cover Art for Something More Than Night - 01/23/13 9:44 PM
Battle of the Books, Summer 2012 - 01/10/13 11:5 AM
Odds, Ends, A Few Moose, An Interview, And Superpowers - 01/08/13 9:5 PM
The NY Times on the Impending Helium Shortage - 12/20/12 3:26 PM
Well, Gosh, THIS Would Have Helped - 12/09/12 6:27 PM
The Next Big Thing - 12/05/12 12:15 PM
New Covers! Orbit UK Editions of THE COLDEST WAR and NECESSARY EVIL - 10/16/12 12:13 PM
Thanks Again, Alice Ann - 08/10/12 7:11 PM
Another Round of Copyedits Finished - 08/04/12 11:6 PM
The ORIGINAL Cover Sketch for The Coldest War - 07/20/12 6:32 PM
Release Day: The Coldest War is Officially Out - 07/17/12 7:0 AM
Spotted in the Wild - 07/14/12 1:52 PM
Interview with the Speculate! Podcast - 07/13/12 9:43 AM
It's Out: Bitter Seeds Debuts in the UK! - 07/12/12 9:28 AM
Fun Interview at Interesting Things - 07/07/12 5:20 PM
Becoming a Superhero With tDCS - 07/05/12 9:39 AM
The Coldest War is a Top Pick at RT Book Reviews - 07/02/12 11:12 PM
Captain America and Nazis in Fiction - 06/29/12 1:3 AM
My God, It's Full of Updates - 06/26/12 8:14 PM
The Annular Eclipse of 2012 - 05/21/12 2:35 PM
James Gleick and The Information - 05/17/12 9:50 PM
The Coldest War on Tor.com - 05/15/12 10:31 AM
First Peek at the US Cover for Necessary Evil - 05/11/12 2:10 PM
Excerpt Posted for The Coldest War - 05/10/12 7:4 AM
About That Blue-Gray Heaven - 05/08/12 3:32 PM
It's a Blue-Gray Heaven by the Sea - 05/06/12 8:52 AM
The Story of Sigmund - 05/04/12 3:59 PM
Cover Unveiled for the Orbit Edition of BITTER SEEDS - 05/02/12 9:39 AM
Sphinxes, Not Moons - 04/28/12 11:35 PM
Moths Are Attacking Me As I Write This - 04/26/12 9:21 PM
Now Shipping: The Mass-Market Paperback Edition of BITTER SEEDS - 04/24/12 11:3 AM
It's Tim Powers's World, We Just Live In It - 04/22/12 10:32 AM
First Draft Down... - 04/13/12 8:47 PM
An Open Letter to the People on my Bus - 04/11/12 10:3 PM
The Final Approach - 04/08/12 9:1 AM
Goodbye, Encyclopedia Britannica - 04/05/12 8:43 PM
Two More Cool Books: ABOVE and THE STRAITS OF GALAHESH - 04/03/12 8:33 PM
A New Direction For Milkweed - 04/01/12 8:53 PM
Range of Ghosts - 03/28/12 10:59 PM
A Bilingual Interview - 03/22/12 8:55 PM
Another Tidbit About tDCS (I Am A Visionary!) - 03/04/12 2:34 PM
Speaking of John Jude Palencar's Artwork - 03/02/12 9:0 PM
Feynman's Letter to his Deceased Wife - 02/22/12 2:55 PM
My Next Novel: SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT - 02/19/12 10:17 AM
Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Enhances Learning - 02/17/12 9:5 AM
My Schedule for Boskone 49 - 02/15/12 9:25 AM
Coming Up for Air - 02/13/12 10:35 AM
OUT NOW: The Audible.com Edition of The Coldest War - 01/17/12 11:54 AM
Either I'm Psychic, Or Robot Sharks Are Just Plain Funny - 01/09/12 11:13 AM
Book vs Film vs Film: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Redux - 01/06/12 11:18 PM
A Cryptic Christmas Package - 01/04/12 10:31 AM
Human for a Day: Out in the Wild - 12/09/11 11:37 PM
Historical Infamy and the Ruthlessness of Time - 12/07/11 10:29 PM
Help Shave My Friend Kat's Head, and Help Rachel Breathe - 11/26/11 5:35 AM
Milkweed Crosses the Pond - 11/23/11 8:52 AM
The Funniest Thing I've Seen This Week - 11/10/11 11:24 PM
The Coldest War Is Still on Track - 11/08/11 3:47 PM
Oh, So That's What Sorcery Looks Like - 11/03/11 11:8 PM
Checkerboard Heroes and a Guest Post at the Night Bazaar - 11/01/11 8:47 PM
And Then The Irony Meter Exploded - 10/26/11 9:57 PM
The Glamorous Life of a Writer - 10/23/11 3:26 PM
The 5-Second Attention Span Makes Audiobooks A Challenge - 10/19/11 10:2 PM
A Random Photo, Because I'm Tired - 10/17/11 10:33 PM
I Call It, "Planet Me" - 10/13/11 7:2 PM
The Shawshank Waterproofing - 10/13/11 7:0 AM
When Does a Racecourse Become a Treadmill? - 10/12/11 12:11 PM
Overheard at Dinner - 10/10/11 11:4 PM
Things To Do On An Idle Friday - 10/07/11 9:33 PM
An Eerie Red Glow Circumscribes My Life - 10/04/11 3:58 PM
The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta - 10/02/11 6:53 PM
More Milkweed Updates: Schedules and Audiobooks - 09/28/11 7:28 PM
My Writing Space Smells Like Death - 09/26/11 11:24 PM
Santa Fe: Gateway to the Stars - 09/24/11 7:59 PM
The Coldest Copyedits... - 09/21/11 10:4 PM
Confusing Parking Signs: A Report From the Trenches - 09/19/11 7:16 PM
Parking Signs - 09/17/11 9:50 PM
Interview With E. E. Giorgi - 09/15/11 9:26 AM
My Enemy: Sleep - 09/13/11 10:12 PM
Breakfast With the Beatles - 09/11/11 10:53 PM
This is How the Day Gets Off to a Fine Start - 09/08/11 10:12 AM
Joining the Cult - 09/06/11 10:3 PM
Another Special Conversation - 09/03/11 9:53 PM
A Very Special Telephone Conversation - 09/01/11 4:25 PM
My Bubonicon 43 Schedule - 08/24/11 10:26 AM
Six Things That Did Not Happen Today - 08/16/11 8:34 PM
Hayao Miyazaki - 08/14/11 6:23 PM
A Brief PSA Re: Spelling My Name - 08/11/11 10:22 AM
The Strange Elasticity of Time - 08/09/11 2:3 PM
Convention/Panel/Self-Promotion How-To Guides - 08/07/11 7:11 PM
Another Short Post, Because It's Friday and the Fever Hasn't Subsided - 08/05/11 12:16 PM
What is the Fractal Dimension of "Boy Meets Girl"? - 08/02/11 9:32 PM
Reason #17 to Stock Up on Aluminum Foil - 08/01/11 9:17 PM
New Cover Art for Bitter Seeds and The Coldest War - 07/28/11 9:28 PM
The Virus(es) Inside Me - 07/26/11 9:29 PM
My WorldCon Schedule - 07/24/11 4:31 PM
Tom Sawyer - 07/23/11 5:8 PM
In Which I Decline a Free Ticket to Mars - 07/21/11 5:32 PM
Cover Art and the Table of Contents for "Human for a Day" - 07/20/11 10:31 PM
Soviet Electrode-Powered Supersoldiers - 07/19/11 4:23 PM
Overheard at Lunch - 07/16/11 8:56 PM
Blurbs That Might Be In My Future - 07/14/11 8:43 PM
I Have Seen Cover Art - 07/12/11 8:51 PM
Whether High, Low, or Popular, Culture is All the Same to Me - 07/10/11 12:8 PM
A Short List of Airports, And Their Properties - 07/08/11 6:0 PM
An Interesting Perspective on the Las Conchas Fire - 07/06/11 5:8 PM
Our Very Own Limestone Adventure - 07/04/11 10:2 PM
I Used Tools, Yet Still Have 10 Fingers - 07/01/11 9:27 PM
I'm Safe - 06/27/11 10:47 PM
Not My Favorite Reason for Vacation - 06/26/11 11:15 PM
The Peculiar Sensation of Living Like an Adult - 06/24/11 7:8 PM
The World Shrinks Under the Weight of Madness - 06/22/11 11:24 AM
It Isn't a Thin Line So Much As a Twisty Knight's Tour - 06/20/11 11:6 PM
Bobby Fischer Against the World - 06/18/11 9:7 PM
Recent Annoyances Conveyed as a Series of Open Letters - 06/16/11 12:50 PM
Something Random While the Laptop Is Still Down - 06/14/11 11:43 PM
Death by Registry Error - 06/12/11 5:4 PM
Free Excerpts from Fort Freak - 06/10/11 9:54 AM
Why The World Smells Like a Fireplace - 06/08/11 3:6 PM
The Hunt for Zero Point - 06/06/11 7:47 PM
Shape-Changing Illuminati Lizards - 06/04/11 10:12 PM
But Consider The Source - 06/02/11 3:54 PM
"Peak Helium" in the Mainstream Media - 05/29/11 2:12 PM
A Very Short Post About Nothing, Because I Can't Wait For This Week To Be Over - 05/27/11 9:52 PM
Memories of My Friend, Margit - 05/25/11 10:9 PM
Another Attempt to Reconnect Leads to an Obituary - 05/23/11 2:23 PM
More Action Shots from Rio Hondo - 05/22/11 7:14 PM
Rio Hondo, Day 4 (Recorded Live, Rebroadcast on Tape Delay) - 05/20/11 10:19 AM
Live from Rio Hondo, Day 3 - 05/18/11 6:55 PM
Live From Rio Hondo, Day 2 - 05/17/11 1:9 PM
Live from Rio Hondo, Day 1 - 05/16/11 3:42 PM
Phantom Time - 05/14/11 8:25 PM
Podcast Interview at Adventures in SciFi Publishing - 05/12/11 4:3 PM
Dear New Mexico Weather: You Are Not Listening - 05/11/11 1:2 PM
Brief Update on "Peak Helium" - 05/09/11 4:34 PM
Because Even Wolves Have Standards - 05/07/11 11:19 AM
Who Wrote This? (A Silver Lining) - 05/05/11 4:54 PM
Dear New Mexico Weather - 05/03/11 9:35 PM
Plot as Snowfall - 05/01/11 10:11 PM
Revision as a Bloody Battlefield - 04/27/11 9:39 PM
My LepreCon Schedule - 04/25/11 9:29 PM
Reading Through the Eyes of Another - 04/23/11 12:4 PM
Time Travelers Among Us - 04/21/11 9:26 PM
Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith - 04/19/11 9:20 PM
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: DARPAspeak for Gotterelektrongruppe - 04/17/11 5:32 PM
Some Random Stuff Because I'm Tired - 04/15/11 7:41 PM
Happy Birthday, Bitter Seeds - 04/13/11 3:54 PM
Nice Piece About the New Mexico Writing Community - 04/11/11 2:13 PM
Giveaway Winners! And Why I Am A Completely Ineffectual Adult - 04/09/11 4:35 PM
This Machine Is Not Responding - 04/07/11 12:49 PM
Reasons Why Squirrels Are Smarter Than I Am (Part 3 of N) - 04/05/11 11:9 AM
Petite Lap Giraffe is the Epic Win - 04/03/11 12:12 PM
My Science Fiction Legacy - 04/01/11 7:46 PM
Ur-Bar Contest & Reviews - 03/28/11 9:41 AM
The Totally True Story of How I Almost Got Caught in a Tim Powers Ghost Trap - 03/26/11 4:41 PM
Cthulita - 03/24/11 9:25 AM
Jeanie Davis Pullen - 03/22/11 12:19 PM
Book Giveaway: Best SF and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5 - 03/20/11 5:57 PM
Why Do People Hate Spoiler Warnings So Much? - 03/18/11 8:27 PM
Two Free Stories - 03/16/11 9:20 PM
Followup to the Milkweed Update Post - 03/15/11 10:24 AM
MILKWEED UPDATE (or, What the Hell is Going on With The Coldest War?) - 03/13/11 3:5 PM
Number Stations - 03/11/11 12:37 PM
The Voynich Manuscript - 03/09/11 9:59 AM
The Mountain is High But the Reading Is Great - 03/07/11 12:1 PM
Choose Your Own Incredibly Boring Adventure - 03/05/11 10:8 PM
Somewhere, Rip van Winkle is Laughing at Me - 03/03/11 1:17 PM
Overheard At Work Today - 03/01/11 5:19 PM
An Alternate History of Genre Television, 1993-2009 - 02/25/11 7:1 PM
"What Doctor Gottlieb Saw" and "Still Life" Featured on the Locus Recommended Reading List - 02/23/11 11:53 AM
Now Shipping: Tales From the Ur-Bar - 02/22/11 10:35 PM
The Most Surreal Moment of My Boskone Experience - 02/20/11 4:33 PM
Why I Hate Insomnia - 02/19/11 4:18 PM
0.01% of My Photos From Australia - 02/17/11 8:49 AM
Bubonicon 43 - 02/15/11 9:13 AM
My Boskone 48 Schedule, or, How To Avoid Difficult Questions - 02/13/11 2:20 AM
Peak Helium (Part 3 of 3) - 02/11/11 9:49 AM
Peak Helium (Part 2 of 3) - 02/09/11 10:41 AM
Peak Helium (Part 1 of 3) - 02/07/11 12:24 PM
Paper Airplanes from Space - 02/05/11 4:30 PM
Now Shipping: Best SF & Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5 - 02/04/11 5:59 PM
Weather, part 2 - 02/03/11 11:4 PM
Bus Stop Weather - 02/02/11 2:53 PM
When Memes Coalesce - 01/29/11 12:28 PM
Writing Difficult Decisions - 01/27/11 4:5 PM
The Seedy Underbelly of Science - 01/25/11 9:6 PM
This Is Warfare in the Future - 01/23/11 1:8 PM
A Duty to Science - 01/21/11 12:5 PM
Chronicle of Sorrows - A Challenge Issued - 01/19/11 11:47 AM
Chronicle of Sorrows Walkthrough - 01/18/11 7:41 AM
And Speaking of Anthologies: Tales from the Ur-Bar - 01/16/11 7:25 AM
Antimatter from Thunderstorms - 01/14/11 6:17 AM
The Mainspring of His Heart, the Shackles of His Soul - 01/12/11 5:28 AM
The 2011 Hugo Awards - 01/10/11 11:7 AM
Chronicle of Sorrows: We Have a Winner! - 01/07/11 3:6 AM
Were the Sky a Madeleine, It Would Taste of Lavender and Rose Petals - 01/05/11 11:25 AM
Bitter Seeds on Two^H^H^H Three "Top Reads of 2010" Lists - 12/28/10 10:36 AM
Some Nice Noise as the Year Winds To a Close - 12/16/10 10:19 AM
Clarion Now Open for Applications - 12/14/10 12:33 PM
On My Christmas Wish List: A Mechanical Robot That Devises Story Plots - 12/06/10 4:31 PM
"Still Life" To Appear in the Year's Best - 12/02/10 3:36 PM
My Pony, It Knows One Trick - 11/19/10 2:12 PM
Cincinnatus is Damned at the Galaxy Bookshop Blog - 11/16/10 4:49 PM
Somewhere, Kage Baker is Laughing - 11/09/10 2:3 PM
More on World Fantasy - 11/08/10 1:17 PM
My Favorite TV Commercial (Autumn 2010 Edition) - 11/03/10 10:32 PM
WFC, The Best Convention Ever - 11/01/10 11:4 PM
Caro Emerald... - 10/07/10 11:6 PM
New Story Online at Apex Magazine - 10/05/10 12:5 PM
Back from Australia with Coldest War News - 10/03/10 3:9 PM
Remarks Delivered at the 34th Annual Williamson Lectureship - 08/19/10 11:17 AM
Research Materials - 08/15/10 3:58 PM
Interview at Pat's Fantasy Hotlist - 08/12/10 10:6 AM
Thank You, Alice Ann, Wherever You Are - 08/11/10 10:49 PM
The End - 07/16/10 4:38 PM
The Joy of a Weight Lifted - 07/13/10 9:29 PM
New Story Appearing in AFTER HOURS: TALES FROM THE UR-BAR - 07/10/10 6:32 PM
Further Proof We Live in the Slow Zone - 07/07/10 10:53 PM
Toy Story 3 - 06/27/10 11:10 AM
Dear SEO Company Representatives - 06/23/10 9:9 PM
Book vs. Film: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - 06/19/10 12:32 AM
Nottingham - 06/16/10 9:54 AM
About That Sorrowful Chronicle - 06/14/10 7:11 PM
From the Department of Serendipitous Side Benefits - 06/11/10 5:3 AM
New Milkweed Story on Tor.com! - 06/08/10 9:26 AM
Click. Click. Click. - 06/05/10 6:21 PM
If You Enjoy Listening to Me Babble Like an Idiot... - 06/02/10 8:26 PM
Because I Haven't Posted About Cephalopods in a While - 05/23/10 9:39 PM
Bitter Seeds on Sword and Laser - 05/19/10 6:17 PM
As If I Needed Another Reason to Love Terry Pratchett - 05/15/10 8:48 PM
Audio Book Update - 05/13/10 6:33 AM
Homecoming (The Part with Photos) - 05/11/10 10:25 PM
Seen in the Wilds of Oslo - 05/08/10 3:43 AM
Where We Talk of Hats - 05/06/10 11:34 PM
Bitter Seeds Going Back for "Rush Reprint" - 05/05/10 3:9 PM
Audiobook News! - 05/03/10 9:21 PM
Homecoming (Part 1) - 04/26/10 11:23 PM
New Giveaways! - 04/20/10 10:15 AM
No Produce Thrown = Success - 04/19/10 11:43 AM
YetiStomper's April Picks - 04/16/10 5:46 PM
Hometown Reader Photo - 04/15/10 10:3 PM
Bitter Seeds on io9! And a Reader Photo, and a Strange Encounter. - 04/14/10 8:44 PM
LAUNCH DAY! Bitter Seeds in the Big, Wide World - 04/13/10 10:18 AM
The 34th Annual Jack Williamson Lectureship - 04/07/10 12:6 PM
Fantasy Book Critic Weighs In! - 04/05/10 10:50 AM
Bitter Seeds at SFRevu - 04/01/10 3:13 PM
Chronicle of Sorrows (2) - 03/27/10 6:43 PM
It's Real - 03/25/10 10:10 AM
Chronicle of Sorrows - 03/22/10 11:34 AM
Boskone - 02/16/10 8:15 PM
My Boskone Schedule - 02/08/10 9:24 PM
Where To Pre-Order Bitter Seeds - 02/07/10 3:50 PM
Sigh. Thanks For the Teamwork, Guys. - 01/30/10 11:52 AM
New Post at Tor.com: Almost Like We Planned It - 01/26/10 11:58 AM
Taos Toolbox - 01/08/10 11:4 PM
Is It A Royal Flush? - 12/23/09 10:7 AM
An Open Letter to the People on My Bus Who Like to Jabber Incessantly at 7 AM - 12/17/09 10:52 PM
Turn Down Your Lights (Part 2) - 12/04/09 9:53 PM
Overheard at a Halloween Party - 10/26/09 12:4 PM
Introducing the Portable Letterpress - 10/14/09 10:10 AM
Introducing the Aetheric Electro-Imager - 10/10/09 2:59 PM
Wide World of Sports, Here I Come - 09/19/09 10:41 AM
A Nine-Word Synopsis of '9' - 09/11/09 9:40 AM
You'll Never Be Late For Dinner - 09/09/09 11:0 PM
Spree Killers of the Deep - 09/06/09 12:44 PM
While You're At It, I'll Take One Of Those Diskos Things, Too - 09/03/09 9:0 AM
Bubonicon 41 - 08/26/09 9:50 PM
Breaking the Silence with Milkweed Updates - 08/24/09 3:47 PM
True Story - 05/02/09 10:36 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
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
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
The State of the World: Busted - 12/09/08 9:4 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
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
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
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
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
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
2013
May
The End: NECESSARY EVIL Is Out! - 05/01/13 10:29 AMApril
Because I Haven't Posted About tDCS In A While - 04/08/13 4:7 PMAnnouncing the NECESSARY EVIL Signing Tour - 04/05/13 5:15 PM
February
Nuclear Deterrence in a Blood Magic World - 02/22/13 9:41 AMGuest Post #2 at Charlie Stross's Blog - 02/17/13 4:41 PM
Guest Post at Charlie Stross's Blog - 02/15/13 9:17 PM
A Conversation with Charlie Stross - 02/08/13 11:6 AM
NOW OUT in the UK: THE COLDEST WAR - 02/07/13 12:22 AM
January
Clarion Is Accepting Applications for the Class of 2013 - 01/27/13 6:38 PMHoly Smokes! Cover Art for Something More Than Night - 01/23/13 9:44 PM
Battle of the Books, Summer 2012 - 01/10/13 11:5 AM
Odds, Ends, A Few Moose, An Interview, And Superpowers - 01/08/13 9:5 PM
2012
December
Coldest War Appearing on Several Best-of-2012 Lists - 12/27/12 5:47 AMThe NY Times on the Impending Helium Shortage - 12/20/12 3:26 PM
Well, Gosh, THIS Would Have Helped - 12/09/12 6:27 PM
The Next Big Thing - 12/05/12 12:15 PM
November
My New Project: The Clakkers Trilogy - 11/28/12 7:24 PMOctober
New Interview / Also, Stuff Was Broken - 10/19/12 4:58 PMNew Covers! Orbit UK Editions of THE COLDEST WAR and NECESSARY EVIL - 10/16/12 12:13 PM
September
Helium, Briefly Revisited - 09/29/12 6:10 PMAugust
Bubonicon 44, It Has a Schedule - 08/22/12 9:27 PMThanks Again, Alice Ann - 08/10/12 7:11 PM
Another Round of Copyedits Finished - 08/04/12 11:6 PM
July
Guest Post at Civilian Reader: The Origin of the Gotterelektron - 07/27/12 11:33 AMThe ORIGINAL Cover Sketch for The Coldest War - 07/20/12 6:32 PM
Release Day: The Coldest War is Officially Out - 07/17/12 7:0 AM
Spotted in the Wild - 07/14/12 1:52 PM
Interview with the Speculate! Podcast - 07/13/12 9:43 AM
It's Out: Bitter Seeds Debuts in the UK! - 07/12/12 9:28 AM
Fun Interview at Interesting Things - 07/07/12 5:20 PM
Becoming a Superhero With tDCS - 07/05/12 9:39 AM
The Coldest War is a Top Pick at RT Book Reviews - 07/02/12 11:12 PM
June
The 2012 Transit of Venus - 06/30/12 5:20 PMCaptain America and Nazis in Fiction - 06/29/12 1:3 AM
My God, It's Full of Updates - 06/26/12 8:14 PM
May
Another (Different) Excerpt from The Coldest War - 05/29/12 10:5 AMThe Annular Eclipse of 2012 - 05/21/12 2:35 PM
James Gleick and The Information - 05/17/12 9:50 PM
The Coldest War on Tor.com - 05/15/12 10:31 AM
First Peek at the US Cover for Necessary Evil - 05/11/12 2:10 PM
Excerpt Posted for The Coldest War - 05/10/12 7:4 AM
About That Blue-Gray Heaven - 05/08/12 3:32 PM
It's a Blue-Gray Heaven by the Sea - 05/06/12 8:52 AM
The Story of Sigmund - 05/04/12 3:59 PM
Cover Unveiled for the Orbit Edition of BITTER SEEDS - 05/02/12 9:39 AM
April
Tor is Giving Away 5 Copies of The Coldest War - 04/30/12 10:7 AMSphinxes, Not Moons - 04/28/12 11:35 PM
Moths Are Attacking Me As I Write This - 04/26/12 9:21 PM
Now Shipping: The Mass-Market Paperback Edition of BITTER SEEDS - 04/24/12 11:3 AM
It's Tim Powers's World, We Just Live In It - 04/22/12 10:32 AM
First Draft Down... - 04/13/12 8:47 PM
An Open Letter to the People on my Bus - 04/11/12 10:3 PM
The Final Approach - 04/08/12 9:1 AM
Goodbye, Encyclopedia Britannica - 04/05/12 8:43 PM
Two More Cool Books: ABOVE and THE STRAITS OF GALAHESH - 04/03/12 8:33 PM
A New Direction For Milkweed - 04/01/12 8:53 PM
March
The UK Release of BITTER SEEDS Will Jump Ahead 5 Months - 03/30/12 7:20 AMRange of Ghosts - 03/28/12 10:59 PM
A Bilingual Interview - 03/22/12 8:55 PM
Another Tidbit About tDCS (I Am A Visionary!) - 03/04/12 2:34 PM
Speaking of John Jude Palencar's Artwork - 03/02/12 9:0 PM
February
The Coldest War Cover Art That Never Was - 02/29/12 10:28 AMFeynman's Letter to his Deceased Wife - 02/22/12 2:55 PM
My Next Novel: SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT - 02/19/12 10:17 AM
Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Enhances Learning - 02/17/12 9:5 AM
My Schedule for Boskone 49 - 02/15/12 9:25 AM
Coming Up for Air - 02/13/12 10:35 AM
January
So This is 2012 - 01/19/12 10:29 AMOUT NOW: The Audible.com Edition of The Coldest War - 01/17/12 11:54 AM
Either I'm Psychic, Or Robot Sharks Are Just Plain Funny - 01/09/12 11:13 AM
Book vs Film vs Film: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Redux - 01/06/12 11:18 PM
A Cryptic Christmas Package - 01/04/12 10:31 AM
2011
December
The Audible.com Edition of Coldest War is Moving to January 17 - 12/19/11 8:15 AMHuman for a Day: Out in the Wild - 12/09/11 11:37 PM
Historical Infamy and the Ruthlessness of Time - 12/07/11 10:29 PM
November
Thanksgiving - 11/29/11 6:42 PMHelp Shave My Friend Kat's Head, and Help Rachel Breathe - 11/26/11 5:35 AM
Milkweed Crosses the Pond - 11/23/11 8:52 AM
The Funniest Thing I've Seen This Week - 11/10/11 11:24 PM
The Coldest War Is Still on Track - 11/08/11 3:47 PM
Oh, So That's What Sorcery Looks Like - 11/03/11 11:8 PM
Checkerboard Heroes and a Guest Post at the Night Bazaar - 11/01/11 8:47 PM
October
The Wild Cards Movie - 10/30/11 7:13 PMAnd Then The Irony Meter Exploded - 10/26/11 9:57 PM
The Glamorous Life of a Writer - 10/23/11 3:26 PM
The 5-Second Attention Span Makes Audiobooks A Challenge - 10/19/11 10:2 PM
A Random Photo, Because I'm Tired - 10/17/11 10:33 PM
I Call It, "Planet Me" - 10/13/11 7:2 PM
The Shawshank Waterproofing - 10/13/11 7:0 AM
When Does a Racecourse Become a Treadmill? - 10/12/11 12:11 PM
Overheard at Dinner - 10/10/11 11:4 PM
Things To Do On An Idle Friday - 10/07/11 9:33 PM
An Eerie Red Glow Circumscribes My Life - 10/04/11 3:58 PM
The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta - 10/02/11 6:53 PM
September
More Things That Smell Like Death - 09/30/11 6:44 PMMore Milkweed Updates: Schedules and Audiobooks - 09/28/11 7:28 PM
My Writing Space Smells Like Death - 09/26/11 11:24 PM
Santa Fe: Gateway to the Stars - 09/24/11 7:59 PM
The Coldest Copyedits... - 09/21/11 10:4 PM
Confusing Parking Signs: A Report From the Trenches - 09/19/11 7:16 PM
Parking Signs - 09/17/11 9:50 PM
Interview With E. E. Giorgi - 09/15/11 9:26 AM
My Enemy: Sleep - 09/13/11 10:12 PM
Breakfast With the Beatles - 09/11/11 10:53 PM
This is How the Day Gets Off to a Fine Start - 09/08/11 10:12 AM
Joining the Cult - 09/06/11 10:3 PM
Another Special Conversation - 09/03/11 9:53 PM
A Very Special Telephone Conversation - 09/01/11 4:25 PM
August
Back to the Grind (or, My Heart is a Shriveled Raisin) - 08/30/11 9:50 PMMy Bubonicon 43 Schedule - 08/24/11 10:26 AM
Six Things That Did Not Happen Today - 08/16/11 8:34 PM
Hayao Miyazaki - 08/14/11 6:23 PM
A Brief PSA Re: Spelling My Name - 08/11/11 10:22 AM
The Strange Elasticity of Time - 08/09/11 2:3 PM
Convention/Panel/Self-Promotion How-To Guides - 08/07/11 7:11 PM
Another Short Post, Because It's Friday and the Fever Hasn't Subsided - 08/05/11 12:16 PM
What is the Fractal Dimension of "Boy Meets Girl"? - 08/02/11 9:32 PM
Reason #17 to Stock Up on Aluminum Foil - 08/01/11 9:17 PM
July
Overheard After Accidentally Crashing a Cocktail Party - 07/30/11 9:40 PMNew Cover Art for Bitter Seeds and The Coldest War - 07/28/11 9:28 PM
The Virus(es) Inside Me - 07/26/11 9:29 PM
My WorldCon Schedule - 07/24/11 4:31 PM
Tom Sawyer - 07/23/11 5:8 PM
In Which I Decline a Free Ticket to Mars - 07/21/11 5:32 PM
Cover Art and the Table of Contents for "Human for a Day" - 07/20/11 10:31 PM
Soviet Electrode-Powered Supersoldiers - 07/19/11 4:23 PM
Overheard at Lunch - 07/16/11 8:56 PM
Blurbs That Might Be In My Future - 07/14/11 8:43 PM
I Have Seen Cover Art - 07/12/11 8:51 PM
Whether High, Low, or Popular, Culture is All the Same to Me - 07/10/11 12:8 PM
A Short List of Airports, And Their Properties - 07/08/11 6:0 PM
An Interesting Perspective on the Las Conchas Fire - 07/06/11 5:8 PM
Our Very Own Limestone Adventure - 07/04/11 10:2 PM
I Used Tools, Yet Still Have 10 Fingers - 07/01/11 9:27 PM
June
Photos of the Las Conchas Fire Approaching My Office - 06/29/11 1:44 AMI'm Safe - 06/27/11 10:47 PM
Not My Favorite Reason for Vacation - 06/26/11 11:15 PM
The Peculiar Sensation of Living Like an Adult - 06/24/11 7:8 PM
The World Shrinks Under the Weight of Madness - 06/22/11 11:24 AM
It Isn't a Thin Line So Much As a Twisty Knight's Tour - 06/20/11 11:6 PM
Bobby Fischer Against the World - 06/18/11 9:7 PM
Recent Annoyances Conveyed as a Series of Open Letters - 06/16/11 12:50 PM
Something Random While the Laptop Is Still Down - 06/14/11 11:43 PM
Death by Registry Error - 06/12/11 5:4 PM
Free Excerpts from Fort Freak - 06/10/11 9:54 AM
Why The World Smells Like a Fireplace - 06/08/11 3:6 PM
The Hunt for Zero Point - 06/06/11 7:47 PM
Shape-Changing Illuminati Lizards - 06/04/11 10:12 PM
But Consider The Source - 06/02/11 3:54 PM
May
When Cartoons Were Real People - 05/31/11 10:58 PM"Peak Helium" in the Mainstream Media - 05/29/11 2:12 PM
A Very Short Post About Nothing, Because I Can't Wait For This Week To Be Over - 05/27/11 9:52 PM
Memories of My Friend, Margit - 05/25/11 10:9 PM
Another Attempt to Reconnect Leads to an Obituary - 05/23/11 2:23 PM
More Action Shots from Rio Hondo - 05/22/11 7:14 PM
Rio Hondo, Day 4 (Recorded Live, Rebroadcast on Tape Delay) - 05/20/11 10:19 AM
Live from Rio Hondo, Day 3 - 05/18/11 6:55 PM
Live From Rio Hondo, Day 2 - 05/17/11 1:9 PM
Live from Rio Hondo, Day 1 - 05/16/11 3:42 PM
Phantom Time - 05/14/11 8:25 PM
Podcast Interview at Adventures in SciFi Publishing - 05/12/11 4:3 PM
Dear New Mexico Weather: You Are Not Listening - 05/11/11 1:2 PM
Brief Update on "Peak Helium" - 05/09/11 4:34 PM
Because Even Wolves Have Standards - 05/07/11 11:19 AM
Who Wrote This? (A Silver Lining) - 05/05/11 4:54 PM
Dear New Mexico Weather - 05/03/11 9:35 PM
Plot as Snowfall - 05/01/11 10:11 PM
April
They Like My Extensive Experience With Aspirin - 04/29/11 9:27 PMRevision as a Bloody Battlefield - 04/27/11 9:39 PM
My LepreCon Schedule - 04/25/11 9:29 PM
Reading Through the Eyes of Another - 04/23/11 12:4 PM
Time Travelers Among Us - 04/21/11 9:26 PM
Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith - 04/19/11 9:20 PM
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: DARPAspeak for Gotterelektrongruppe - 04/17/11 5:32 PM
Some Random Stuff Because I'm Tired - 04/15/11 7:41 PM
Happy Birthday, Bitter Seeds - 04/13/11 3:54 PM
Nice Piece About the New Mexico Writing Community - 04/11/11 2:13 PM
Giveaway Winners! And Why I Am A Completely Ineffectual Adult - 04/09/11 4:35 PM
This Machine Is Not Responding - 04/07/11 12:49 PM
Reasons Why Squirrels Are Smarter Than I Am (Part 3 of N) - 04/05/11 11:9 AM
Petite Lap Giraffe is the Epic Win - 04/03/11 12:12 PM
My Science Fiction Legacy - 04/01/11 7:46 PM
March
Project Carve-the-Moon Proceeds Apace - 03/30/11 8:28 AMUr-Bar Contest & Reviews - 03/28/11 9:41 AM
The Totally True Story of How I Almost Got Caught in a Tim Powers Ghost Trap - 03/26/11 4:41 PM
Cthulita - 03/24/11 9:25 AM
Jeanie Davis Pullen - 03/22/11 12:19 PM
Book Giveaway: Best SF and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5 - 03/20/11 5:57 PM
Why Do People Hate Spoiler Warnings So Much? - 03/18/11 8:27 PM
Two Free Stories - 03/16/11 9:20 PM
Followup to the Milkweed Update Post - 03/15/11 10:24 AM
MILKWEED UPDATE (or, What the Hell is Going on With The Coldest War?) - 03/13/11 3:5 PM
Number Stations - 03/11/11 12:37 PM
The Voynich Manuscript - 03/09/11 9:59 AM
The Mountain is High But the Reading Is Great - 03/07/11 12:1 PM
Choose Your Own Incredibly Boring Adventure - 03/05/11 10:8 PM
Somewhere, Rip van Winkle is Laughing at Me - 03/03/11 1:17 PM
Overheard At Work Today - 03/01/11 5:19 PM
February
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Self-Promoter - 02/27/11 8:5 PMAn Alternate History of Genre Television, 1993-2009 - 02/25/11 7:1 PM
"What Doctor Gottlieb Saw" and "Still Life" Featured on the Locus Recommended Reading List - 02/23/11 11:53 AM
Now Shipping: Tales From the Ur-Bar - 02/22/11 10:35 PM
The Most Surreal Moment of My Boskone Experience - 02/20/11 4:33 PM
Why I Hate Insomnia - 02/19/11 4:18 PM
0.01% of My Photos From Australia - 02/17/11 8:49 AM
Bubonicon 43 - 02/15/11 9:13 AM
My Boskone 48 Schedule, or, How To Avoid Difficult Questions - 02/13/11 2:20 AM
Peak Helium (Part 3 of 3) - 02/11/11 9:49 AM
Peak Helium (Part 2 of 3) - 02/09/11 10:41 AM
Peak Helium (Part 1 of 3) - 02/07/11 12:24 PM
Paper Airplanes from Space - 02/05/11 4:30 PM
Now Shipping: Best SF & Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5 - 02/04/11 5:59 PM
Weather, part 2 - 02/03/11 11:4 PM
Bus Stop Weather - 02/02/11 2:53 PM
January
If I Were Half as Cool as Brian May - 01/31/11 9:45 PMWhen Memes Coalesce - 01/29/11 12:28 PM
Writing Difficult Decisions - 01/27/11 4:5 PM
The Seedy Underbelly of Science - 01/25/11 9:6 PM
This Is Warfare in the Future - 01/23/11 1:8 PM
A Duty to Science - 01/21/11 12:5 PM
Chronicle of Sorrows - A Challenge Issued - 01/19/11 11:47 AM
Chronicle of Sorrows Walkthrough - 01/18/11 7:41 AM
And Speaking of Anthologies: Tales from the Ur-Bar - 01/16/11 7:25 AM
Antimatter from Thunderstorms - 01/14/11 6:17 AM
The Mainspring of His Heart, the Shackles of His Soul - 01/12/11 5:28 AM
The 2011 Hugo Awards - 01/10/11 11:7 AM
Chronicle of Sorrows: We Have a Winner! - 01/07/11 3:6 AM
Were the Sky a Madeleine, It Would Taste of Lavender and Rose Petals - 01/05/11 11:25 AM
2010
December
In Which I Speak of More Lists, And Then Feel Badly About It - 12/31/10 10:27 AMBitter Seeds on Two^H^H^H Three "Top Reads of 2010" Lists - 12/28/10 10:36 AM
Some Nice Noise as the Year Winds To a Close - 12/16/10 10:19 AM
Clarion Now Open for Applications - 12/14/10 12:33 PM
On My Christmas Wish List: A Mechanical Robot That Devises Story Plots - 12/06/10 4:31 PM
"Still Life" To Appear in the Year's Best - 12/02/10 3:36 PM
November
The Funniest Thing I've Read in the Past Few Weeks - 11/22/10 3:57 PMMy Pony, It Knows One Trick - 11/19/10 2:12 PM
Cincinnatus is Damned at the Galaxy Bookshop Blog - 11/16/10 4:49 PM
Somewhere, Kage Baker is Laughing - 11/09/10 2:3 PM
More on World Fantasy - 11/08/10 1:17 PM
My Favorite TV Commercial (Autumn 2010 Edition) - 11/03/10 10:32 PM
WFC, The Best Convention Ever - 11/01/10 11:4 PM
October
This Is How I Know I'm Enjoying A Book: - 10/13/10 11:28 PMCaro Emerald... - 10/07/10 11:6 PM
New Story Online at Apex Magazine - 10/05/10 12:5 PM
Back from Australia with Coldest War News - 10/03/10 3:9 PM
August
Bitter Seeds Audiobook & A Pop-Cultural Interview - 08/27/10 3:35 PMRemarks Delivered at the 34th Annual Williamson Lectureship - 08/19/10 11:17 AM
Research Materials - 08/15/10 3:58 PM
Interview at Pat's Fantasy Hotlist - 08/12/10 10:6 AM
Thank You, Alice Ann, Wherever You Are - 08/11/10 10:49 PM
July
The Perils of Fantasy Alternate History - 07/27/10 11:7 AMThe End - 07/16/10 4:38 PM
The Joy of a Weight Lifted - 07/13/10 9:29 PM
New Story Appearing in AFTER HOURS: TALES FROM THE UR-BAR - 07/10/10 6:32 PM
Further Proof We Live in the Slow Zone - 07/07/10 10:53 PM
June
Things for Which a Minnesota Childhood Did Not Prepare Me - 06/30/10 8:43 PMToy Story 3 - 06/27/10 11:10 AM
Dear SEO Company Representatives - 06/23/10 9:9 PM
Book vs. Film: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - 06/19/10 12:32 AM
Nottingham - 06/16/10 9:54 AM
About That Sorrowful Chronicle - 06/14/10 7:11 PM
From the Department of Serendipitous Side Benefits - 06/11/10 5:3 AM
New Milkweed Story on Tor.com! - 06/08/10 9:26 AM
Click. Click. Click. - 06/05/10 6:21 PM
If You Enjoy Listening to Me Babble Like an Idiot... - 06/02/10 8:26 PM
May
Just 364 Shopping Days Left Until Next Towel Day - 05/26/10 5:35 PMBecause I Haven't Posted About Cephalopods in a While - 05/23/10 9:39 PM
Bitter Seeds on Sword and Laser - 05/19/10 6:17 PM
As If I Needed Another Reason to Love Terry Pratchett - 05/15/10 8:48 PM
Audio Book Update - 05/13/10 6:33 AM
Homecoming (The Part with Photos) - 05/11/10 10:25 PM
Seen in the Wilds of Oslo - 05/08/10 3:43 AM
Where We Talk of Hats - 05/06/10 11:34 PM
Bitter Seeds Going Back for "Rush Reprint" - 05/05/10 3:9 PM
Audiobook News! - 05/03/10 9:21 PM
April
Homecoming (Part 2) - 04/28/10 10:25 PMHomecoming (Part 1) - 04/26/10 11:23 PM
New Giveaways! - 04/20/10 10:15 AM
No Produce Thrown = Success - 04/19/10 11:43 AM
YetiStomper's April Picks - 04/16/10 5:46 PM
Hometown Reader Photo - 04/15/10 10:3 PM
Bitter Seeds on io9! And a Reader Photo, and a Strange Encounter. - 04/14/10 8:44 PM
LAUNCH DAY! Bitter Seeds in the Big, Wide World - 04/13/10 10:18 AM
The 34th Annual Jack Williamson Lectureship - 04/07/10 12:6 PM
Fantasy Book Critic Weighs In! - 04/05/10 10:50 AM
Bitter Seeds at SFRevu - 04/01/10 3:13 PM
March
Chronicle of Sorrows (3) - 03/29/10 3:23 PMChronicle of Sorrows (2) - 03/27/10 6:43 PM
It's Real - 03/25/10 10:10 AM
Chronicle of Sorrows - 03/22/10 11:34 AM
February
Keep an Eye on That Tregillis Fellow (Before He Steals Your Silverware) - 02/27/10 5:16 PMBoskone - 02/16/10 8:15 PM
My Boskone Schedule - 02/08/10 9:24 PM
Where To Pre-Order Bitter Seeds - 02/07/10 3:50 PM
January
Another New Post at Tor.com: So We Have This Plot Hiccup... - 01/30/10 10:3 PMSigh. Thanks For the Teamwork, Guys. - 01/30/10 11:52 AM
New Post at Tor.com: Almost Like We Planned It - 01/26/10 11:58 AM
Taos Toolbox - 01/08/10 11:4 PM
2009
December
Wide World of Sports (reprise) - 12/27/09 5:15 PMIs It A Royal Flush? - 12/23/09 10:7 AM
An Open Letter to the People on My Bus Who Like to Jabber Incessantly at 7 AM - 12/17/09 10:52 PM
Turn Down Your Lights (Part 2) - 12/04/09 9:53 PM
October
Turn Down Your Lights (Where Applicable) - 10/30/09 8:40 PMOverheard at a Halloween Party - 10/26/09 12:4 PM
Introducing the Portable Letterpress - 10/14/09 10:10 AM
Introducing the Aetheric Electro-Imager - 10/10/09 2:59 PM
September
Newsletter - 09/23/09 10:3 AMWide World of Sports, Here I Come - 09/19/09 10:41 AM
A Nine-Word Synopsis of '9' - 09/11/09 9:40 AM
You'll Never Be Late For Dinner - 09/09/09 11:0 PM
Spree Killers of the Deep - 09/06/09 12:44 PM
While You're At It, I'll Take One Of Those Diskos Things, Too - 09/03/09 9:0 AM
August
The Battle of Britain in Stained Glass - 08/31/09 12:22 PMBubonicon 41 - 08/26/09 9:50 PM
Breaking the Silence with Milkweed Updates - 08/24/09 3:47 PM
June
There's A Trick To It: Don't Get Bitten - 06/13/09 1:32 PMMay
Losing the Senescence Lottery - 05/12/09 10:26 PMTrue Story - 05/02/09 10:36 PM
April
Two Awesome Books Available Today - 04/28/09 6:7 PMEndings 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 PMDon'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 PMNext 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 PMThe State of the World: Busted - 12/09/08 9:4 AM
October
"Boo," Said the Lunatic in Boston - 10/31/08 8:29 AMBecause 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 AMJuly
Slivers of Ticks, and Tatters of Tocks - 07/23/08 1:44 PMHaving 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 AMKiller 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 AMI'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 AMMatch 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 PMOpulent, 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
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Thursday, May 8 2008, 09:01 AM
I walk to work almost every day. But I frequently use that time to daydream about my various writing projects, so maybe I don't notice my surroundings quite as closely as I should.
Several months ago, a bit of road maintenance and landscaping work forced me to alter my route slightly. That lasted for a week or two. Then the work trucks, barrels, and yellow tape disappeared as quickly as they had appeared. Other than a new 3' x 3' square of chain-link fence surrounding something wrapped in plastic, the workers left nothing behind. I assumed they would be returning for more work at some point, and that the new chain-link cell contained equipment or supplies. Never occurred to me to actually read the sign on the fence, even though I've been walking past it twice per day for months.
I did look yesterday. The sign says
Caution: Radioactive Material
Truthfully, I'm unconcerned about the health and safety aspects. (After all, practically everything is radioactive, if you look closely enough. I probably receive a higher dose of radiation from cosmic rays in one year, owing to the fact I live at 7300', than I would receive from 100 years of walking past that whatever-it-is every day.)
But, you know, kinda feels like I should start paying attention to my surroundings. That seems like the kind of thing a person should notice.
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bkdunn, Saturday, May 10 2008, 09:01 PM
One time driving in Czech hills near the German border I passed a sign that read "close windows when lights are flashing". I can only imagine what would've been escaping from the underground bunkers that could've required that warning. And I have a watch with tritium on its hands, which makes me feel like I'm cheating death every day. Welcome to the club.
One time driving in Czech hills near the German border I passed a sign that read "close windows when lights are flashing". I can only imagine what would've been escaping from the underground bunkers that could've required that warning. And I have a watch with tritium on its hands, which makes me feel like I'm cheating death every day. Welcome to the club.
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