Here’s the audio of my speech last month at Olin College, a small, elite engineering school outside of Boston. The students there were really sharp — some of the wisest and most incisive I’ve met, and the faculty I met with were very bright and inspiring indeed. Not to mention the totally awesome library and its equally awesome librarians, who run a 24/7 library that students admit themselves to with a swipe-card, and check their own books out of using a scanner. Plus: free photocopying!
Monthly Archives::
March 2006
Andrew Crocker writes, “I’m a senior art student at Colorado State University. Recently we
had an assignment where we were supposed to make a “3D
illustration”
(make a sculpture, light it and photograph it) dust jacket and 2
page
spread for one of our favorite books. I chose Down and Out, and
thought I might send you the cover.”
This is really striking and lovely design work. Nice job, Andrew! Thanks so much!
(see also these fan-covers for the book)
The audio of my talk from last year’s O’Reilly European Open Source Con just went live on IT Conversations: Europe’s Coming Broadcast Flag
Here’s part four of a four-part podcast of another story, “Return to Pleasure Island,” a dark and mean fantasy story that was originally published in Realms of Fantasy in 2000, and reprinted in my 2003 short story collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More.
My next podcast will commence in a few days: a three-part reading of Nimby and the Dimension-Hoppers.
Last month in Boston, I recorded an interview with William Kuhman of MIT Radio’s Dinnertime Sampler. William cut together a show with the interview and a bunch of my all-time favorite music, and MIT’s made it available as a streaming cast (sucks, I know) for 30 days (worse luck still). But it’s still a lot of fun and maybe someone will hijack the stream and turn it into an MP3 and stick a torrent up somewhere!
Here’s part three of a four-part podcast of another story, “Return to Pleasure Island,” a dark and mean fantasy story that was originally published in Realms of Fantasy in 2000, and reprinted in my 2003 short story collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More.
The Hugo nominations process closes on March 10. If you attended the World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow in 2005 or if you’re registered to attend the WorldCon this year in Los Angeles, you’re eligible to nominate (as a reminder, a great place to find out more about writers eligible for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer is Writertopia’s eligibility list).
In case you were wondering — here’s a list of my eligible 2005 publications:
Best Novel: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Tor, July 2005
Best Novelette: I, Robot, The Infinite Matrix, February 2005
Best Novella: Human Readable, Future Washington, October 2005, WSFA Press
Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form): After the Siege (podcast), Craphound.com, September 2005
Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form): When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (podcast), Craphound.com, October 2005
Here’s part two of a four-part podcast of another story, “Return to Pleasure Island,” a dark and mean fantasy story that was originally published in Realms of Fantasy in 2000, and reprinted in my 2003 short story collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More.
