Here’s part 8 — chapters 19-21 — of the reading of my novel Eastern Standard Tribe.
I’ve just posted the first six lectures from my undergrad class at the University of Southern California: “Pwned: Is Everyone on Campus a Copyright Criminal?” The lectures were recorded by Garrett Sergeant, a volunteer who is a local director/producer/videographer, and we’ll be putting up new lectures as they’re available. The whole thing is available as a podcast feed, or you can download them from the Internet Archive, where they’re available as Oggs, MP3s, streams and so on.
The Sunburst Award is holding a charity auction next weekend at Ad Astra, Toronto’s regional science fiction convention (I’m one of the guests of honor, which is amazingly cool, given that Ad Astra is the first con I ever attended, volunteering as a gofer in exchange for free admission).
The Sunburst honors the best Canadian sf book of the year with a $1,000 cash prize and national prestige (my first short story collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More, won the prize a few years back). It’s an award I’m glad to support — Canadian sf is incredibly vibrant and exciting.
I’ve donated naming rights for one of the characters in a forthcoming novel to the auction — the book that was partially syndicated under the title Themepunks last year on Salon. It’ll be out from Tor in 2008, and the winning bidder can have slap her/his name on either the female or the male lead.
Hope to see you at Ad Astra — and at the auction!
– 10th-anniversary statue of The Sandman, new in his box, all 12½ inches of him, with signed certificate of authenticity
-signed copy of Neil Gaiman’s novel Fragile Things (hardcover, first U.K. edition)
—signed first edition of Windflower, by Nick Bantock and Edoardo Ponti
—signed copy of Jeff Hoke’s non-fiction book The Museum of Lost Wonder, with special bonus not available in stores!
—two signed prints donated by Martin Springett: one from Tolkien’s Farmer Giles of Ham and one Guy Gavriel Kay-related image
—AND a character named after the winning bidder in Cory Doctorow’s next novel.
If it’s Thursday, this must be North Carolina! Just as soon as I finish breakfast, I’m off to give a couple speeches here in the Raleigh-Durham region:
- 5PM: Duke University, Love Auditorium, Levine Science Research Center — “From Myspace to Homeland Security: Privacy and the Totalitarian Urge”
- 2PM University of North Carolina, Wilson Library — a talk on copyright
Midnight.Haulkerton, a “Grok Rock” band from Australia, has very kindly recorded a song inspired by my new short story collection, Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present — just the first of more to come. This is about the coolest, most flattering thing ever.
Future shock, present shock, we’re already in past shock
Too much to go to and nowhere to go, we’ve got way too much to know
Something in the future’s already in the past, the present’s an illusion
Cos the world is spinning way too fastOverclocked, clock shock
This watch never stops
Overclocked, time’s fast
You’ve been blasted in the past
Midnight.Haulkerton, a “Grok Rock” band from Australia, has very kindly recorded a song inspired by my new short story collection, Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present — just the first of more to come. This is about the coolest, most flattering thing ever.
Future shock, present shock, we’re already in past shock
Too much to go to and nowhere to go, we’ve got way too much to know
Something in the future’s already in the past, the present’s an illusion
Cos the world is spinning way too fastOverclocked, clock shock
This watch never stops
Overclocked, time’s fast
You’ve been blasted in the past
I recorded a podcast this morning for the Thunderbird Six show, a science-related podcast from Thunder Bay, Ontario. We covered the usual stuff — copyright, DRM, science fiction, EFF — they’re funny guys, too.
Here’s part 7 — chapters 17-18 — of the reading of my novel Eastern Standard Tribe.
Just a reminder: I’m coming to North Carolina this Thursday, 22 Feb 07. I’ll be giving a talk on privacy at Duke University at 5PM and a talk on copyright at the University of North Carolina at 2PM. Hope to see you there!
Other upcoming events: Ad Astra Toronto Mar 2-4; Simon Fraser University Vancouver, Mar 8/9.
