Jon Bard and Lauren Backes have assembled the introductions to the free ebook editions of my novels and collections into one free electronic volume they call “the problem isn’t piracy. the problem is obscurity.” It’s fun to see these little essays I wrote as ephemeral forematter take on a life of their own.
Paul Clip was inspired by my novel Eastern Standard Tribe and made a set of analyses of world population by timezone.
I cheated a little by using a simplifying assumption: if a country has multiple time zones, I divide its population evenly between them. This inaccuracy doesn’t change the fact that our top three are…
UTC+8: China and others
UTC+5.5: India and others
UTC+1: Western Europe and a good chunk of AfricaAccording to Mathematica, there are 39 different time zones ranging from UTC-11.5 to UTC+14. I wonder if anyone has visited them all? Now that would be a glorious adventure! :-)
Paul Clip was inspired by my novel Eastern Standard Tribe and made a set of analyses of world population by timezone.
I cheated a little by using a simplifying assumption: if a country has multiple time zones, I divide its population evenly between them. This inaccuracy doesn’t change the fact that our top three are…
UTC+8: China and others
UTC+5.5: India and others
UTC+1: Western Europe and a good chunk of AfricaAccording to Mathematica, there are 39 different time zones ranging from UTC-11.5 to UTC+14. I wonder if anyone has visited them all? Now that would be a glorious adventure! :-)
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I gave the closing keynote at yesterday’s Personal Democracy Forum in NYC; they’ve posted the video already. It was a remarkable event, filled with speakers who inspired me and got me riled up and wanting to do stuff. It was an honor to be on stage there — thanks to the organizers!
I sat down with BookBaby‘s Brian Felsen last month at the London Book Fair for a long interview about business, publishing, authorship and copyright. Brian’s just posted the first installment of several that comprise the whole discussion.
Here’s part six of my reading of my story-in-progress, Knights of the Rainbow Table, a story commissioned by Intel’s Chief Futurist, Brian David Johnson. Brian oversees Intel’s Tomorrow project, which uses science fiction to spark conversations about product design and use among Intel’s engineers, and he was kind enough to invite me to write a story of my choosing for the project. Intel gets first dibs on putting it online, but that’s it — I retain full creative control and the right to re-use it as I see fit.
Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com
John Taylor Williams is a full-time self-employed audio engineer, producer, composer, and sound designer. In his free time, he makes beer, jewelry, odd musical instruments and furniture. He likes to meditate, to read and to cook.
While I’m in New York for Personal Democracy Forum, I’ll be participating in a group signing/launch for Welcome to Bordertown, the shared-world fantasy anthology of stories about Bordertown, where faerie and the human world meet and magic and technology are equally unreliable. In attendance will be Holly Black, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Annette Curtis Klause, Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman. If you can’t make it, you can pre-order a signed copy for delivery or pickup.
Where: Books of Wonder, 18 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011, (212) 989-3270
When: June 9, 6-8PM
Make has posted on of my columns from the print edition online; “Walled Gardens vs. Makers” is a look at the way that modern, Internet-era making is built on knowledge sharing and collaboration, and how walled gardens get in the way:
Because, of course, today I have millions of hacks and tips and tricks and ideas at my fingertips, thanks to the internet and the tools that run on top of it. When I invent or discover something, I immediately put it on the net. And when I find myself in a corner of the world that is not to my liking, I Google up some hack that someone else has put on the net and apply it or adapt it to my needs.
Making, in short, is not about making. Making is about sharing. The reason we can make so much today is because the basic knowledge, skills, and tools to make anything and do anything are already on the ground, forming a loam in which our inspiration can germinate.
Here’s part five of my reading of my story-in-progress, Knights of the Rainbow Table, a story commissioned by Intel’s Chief Futurist, Brian David Johnson. Brian oversees Intel’s Tomorrow project, which uses science fiction to spark conversations about product design and use among Intel’s engineers, and he was kind enough to invite me to write a story of my choosing for the project. Intel gets first dibs on putting it online, but that’s it — I retain full creative control and the right to re-use it as I see fit.
Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com
John Taylor Williams is a full-time self-employed audio engineer, producer, composer, and sound designer. In his free time, he makes beer, jewelry, odd musical instruments and furniture. He likes to meditate, to read and to cook.
