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January 2009
After a long hiatus, I’m back at my podcast, and to kick it off, I’m reading my 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, “A miraculous story of secrets, lies, magic and Internet connectivity.” It’s going to take a while — this is a looong book — and I’m really looking forward to it. I haven’t re-read this book since it was published, and it’s been enough time that it’s like reading something someone else wrote, which is really cool and fun.
Here’s the Publishers’ Weekly summary:
“It’s only natural that Alan, the broadminded hero of Doctorow’s fresh, unconventional SF novel, is willing to help everybody he meets. After all, he’s the product of a mixed marriage (his father is a mountain and his mother is a washing machine), so he knows how much being an outcast can hurt. Alan tries desperately to behave like a human being’or at least like his idealized version of one. He joins a cyber-anarchist’s plot to spread a free wireless Internet through Toronto at the same time he agrees to protect his youngest brothers (members of a set of Russian nesting dolls) from their dead brother who’s now resurrected and bent on revenge.”
The 2008 Hugo award nominations have opened — if you were a member of the 2008 WorldCon in Denver, or have bought a membership to the 2009 WorldCon in Montreal, you’re eligible to nominate. I’ll be sending in my nominations this week, and just in case you were wondering, here’s the stuff I wrote that’s eligible for this year’s ballot:
* Best novel: Little Brother, Tor, 2008
* Best related book: Content, Tachyon, 2008
* Best novella: True Names (with Benjamin Rosenbaum), published in Fast Forward, Pyr Books, 2008, edited by Lou Anders
* Best novelette: The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away, Tor.com, July 2008
No matter what you plan on nominate, I urge you to send in your form! Hugo participation seems to dwindle every year. The present form’s just a PDF, but they’re promising a web-based one shortly (I’ll post again when it’s live).
The 2008 Hugo award nominations have opened — if you were a member of the 2008 WorldCon in Denver, or have bought a membership to the 2009 WorldCon in Montreal, you’re eligible to nominate. I’ll be sending in my nominations this week, and just in case you were wondering, here’s the stuff I wrote that’s eligible for this year’s ballot:
* Best novel: Little Brother, Tor, 2008
* Best related book: Content, Tachyon, 2008
* Best novella: True Names (with Benjamin Rosenbaum), published in Fast Forward, Pyr Books, 2008, edited by Lou Anders
* Best novelette: The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away, Tor.com, July 2008
No matter what you plan on nominate, I urge you to send in your form! Hugo participation seems to dwindle every year. The present form’s just a PDF, but they’re promising a web-based one shortly (I’ll post again when they do).
The 2008 Hugo award nominations have opened — if you were a member of the 2008 WorldCon in Denver, or have bought a membership to the 2009 WorldCon in Montreal, you’re eligible to nominate. I’ll be sending in my nominations this week, and just in case you were wondering, here’s the stuff I wrote that’s eligible for this year’s ballot:
* Best novel: Little Brother, Tor, 2008
* Best related book: Content, Tachyon, 2008
* Best novella: True Names (with Benjamin Rosenbaum), published in Fast Forward, Pyr Books, 2008, edited by Lou Anders
* Best novelette: The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away, Tor.com, July 2008
No matter what you plan on nominate, I urge you to send in your form! Hugo participation seems to dwindle every year. The present form’s just a PDF, but they’re promising a web-based one shortly (I’ll post again when it’s live).
How cool is this? Craftster user BurningSchoolhouse made a plush version of me in my hot air balloon (see XKCD for more) as a Christmas present for her boyfriend. Color me tickled!
(Thanks, Jen H!)
