Category Archives: Authors & Their Books

Here, I’ll be posting about – and with luck receiving posts about and from – authors who have sold a book, or books, to publishers and know how that works and who are only too happy to share. I don’t really know the self-publishing realm, but would be interested to hear from any of you with experience, good or ill, in that arena.

Launch your brain into “The Living Cosmos”

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Christian

The Living Cosmos by Chris Impey Cambridge University Press 393 Pages, Paperback Edition Updated 2010 I write fiction that speculates about life on other planets, and while my attention to scientific nuts and bolts is far from exhaustive, I take … Continue reading →

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Ray Bradbury, 1920 – 2012

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Christian

Ray Bradbury is gone.  The author who gave us The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Dandelion Wine and other marvelous, lyrical novels died in L.A. today. He was 91. From the Official Ray Bradbury site: “Throughout his life, Bradbury … Continue reading →

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The coming andro-pocalypse. RUReady?

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Christian

  Robots. They’re already insinuating themselves into our lives in all sorts of sinister ways. They build our cars, fly  our airplanes, do a little cleaning. But  when they finally make their move and take over, you’ll wish you’d treated … Continue reading →

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Home is where the green-blood-pumping heart is…

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Christian

    Aliens invade the Earth! Humans mount heroic-but-hopeless resistance! The White House… vaporized!  It’s a time-honored SF scenario, stretching back to the genre’s puppyhood, with badness-from-the-skies like H.G. Wells’ venerable War of the Worlds. And, frankly, I’ve always been … Continue reading →

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Harry Potter author to her lit agent: “Dude-amus begon-amus!”

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Christian

The drama of J.K. Rowling’s decision to part ways with her long-time agent is covered (somewhat breathlessly…) by the UK’s Daily Mail.  But there’s  a buried gem inside the larger story: the tale of how Rowling’s initial HP manuscript submission had … Continue reading →

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Come in, SF, and take a seat. We need to talk.

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Christian

  Multi-award-winning author Elizabeth Bear gives our favorite literary realm a much-needed talking to over at clarksworldmagazine.com about how science fiction has come to take itself much too seriously lately, its obsession with worlds Dark, Depressive and Generally Ill-Humored and … Continue reading →

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Author Paolo Bacigalupi (Ship Breaker) talks the why and what-it’s-good-for of SF

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Christian

A great interview w/ Paolo B. from the Publisher’s Weekly info-packed site. Good insights into writing for adults vs YA, as well as general thoughts on sci fi and the mercurial meaning(s) of the oft-abused term”dystopia.”     From publishersweekly.com: … Continue reading →

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Brooding cyborgs, twisted science….

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Christian

Award-winning publishing house Angry Robot is concocting a spankin’ new Young Adult SF & F imprint, set to debut in the fall of this year. (More about why I find this… interesting… at a later date….) Dubbed Strange Chemistry, this … Continue reading →

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