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D-matting Cats!

D-matting Cats! 

I’m a big fan of the lolcat. Particularly the lolcat in a d-mat booth. But nothing’s better than the designer of the Australian edition of Jump creating her own version of the cover featuring cats instead of people: Except, maybe, an alternate cover design that makes the book look like an awesome late-Hitchcock 70’s thriller: […]

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Muscle, Murder, and Matrimony

Muscle, Murder, and Matrimony 

I go quiet whenever I’m writing, and last week was no exception. Three new stories have joined the Twinmaker universe: “Murdering Miss Deboo” – another Forest and Sargent mystery, this time involving a possibly murderous muscle car, “Immaterial Progress” – a very short story revealing the fate of the first person ever to travel via […]

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Cover – Breaking Beauty & Kaleidoscope

Cover – Breaking Beauty & Kaleidoscope 

I have a Twinmaker story (“The Beholders”) coming out later this year in the anthology Breaking Beauty. The cover went public this week, and I thought I’d share. It’s a beauty, isn’t it? The other anthology I’m in, due next month, is Kaleidoscope from Twelfth Planet Press. My story is called “The Legend Trap” and […]

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Larry Niven Was Here (More Recommended Texts)

Larry Niven Was Here (More Recommended Texts) 

A while back I wrote a couple of posts recommending books that inspired me while I was researching Twinmaker (and contributed greatly to my PhD). Here’s another one, about the author who arguably set me on the path to becoming a science fiction writer, and who contributed to my already great fascination with the matter […]

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