I’m giving a talks in three Australian cities in April — hope to see you!
April 13-17: Brisbane — Guest of Honour, ConJure, the Australian national science fiction convention
April 18: Melbourne — Speaking at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 7PM, AU$15/13 conc (at Federation Square, Flinders Street)
April 19: Sydney — Speaking at Greater Union Bondi Junction, 7PM, Free (Level 6, 500 Oxford Street, Westfield Bondi Junction)
I’m going on holidays until April 12, and probably won’t have any Internet connectivity for the whole time (yay!). If you want to say something to me, email me on April 13 or later!
The final Hugo Ballot is online, and my story I, Robot is a finalist for the best novelette! w00t!
Best Novelette
(207 ballots cast)
“The Calorie Man”, Paolo Bacigalupi (F&SF October/November 2005)
“Two Hearts”, Peter S. Beagle (F&SF October/November 2005)
“TelePresence”, Michael A. Burstein (Analog July/August 2005)
“I, Robotâ€?, Cory Doctorow (The Infinite Matrix February 15, 2005)
“The King of Where-I-Go”, Howard Waldrop (SCI FICTION December 7,
2005)
Sunday was the first public London Copyfighters’ Drunken Brunch and Talking Shop, a monthly fake-champagne brunch followed by impromptu speeches at Hyde Park’s Speaker’s Corner. Jose recorded the event and turned it into a podcast. (see Flickr for the pics.)
I was one of the guests of honor at Boskone in Boston last month, and as such, I gave an hour-long speech about copyright, DRM and so forth. James “Citizen Cyborg” Hughes has posted the MP3s of my talk to Changesurfer Radio:
I’ve just posted the final installment of my podcast of my story, “Nimby and the D-Hoppers,” originally published in Asimov’s, reprinted in a Year’s Best anthology, and translated into French, Russian, Chinese and Hebrew. I read the story in three installments and they’re all online now. Next up, the three-story “Bugouts” trilogy, starting with Shadow of the Mothaship.
Here’s part three of my podcast of Nimby and the D-Hoppers, a story that was originally published in Asimov’s in 2003 and reprinted in a Year’s Best, then translated into Russian, Chinese, French and Hebrew. Nimby is the story of a deep-green alternate future that is being invaded by gun-totin’ yahoos from alternate planes of reality.
Here’s part two of my podcast of Nimby and the D-Hoppers, a story that was originally published in Asimov’s in 2003 and reprinted in a Year’s Best, then translated into Russian, Chinese, French and Hebrew. Nimby is the story of a deep-green alternate future that is being invaded by gun-totin’ yahoos from alternate planes of reality.
My story Nimby and the D-Hoppers has been translated into Hebrew by Bli-Panika magazine and released under a Creative Commons license — now the story is available in Chinese, French, Russian and Hebrew! Of course, you can always get it as an English podcast, too.
Here’s part one of my podcast of Nimby and the D-Hoppers, a story that was originally published in Asimov’s in 2003 and reprinted in a Year’s Best, then translated into Russian, Chinese and French. Nimby is the story of a deep-green alternate future that is being invaded by gun-totin’ yahoos from alternate planes of reality:
Don’t get me wrong — I _like_ unspoiled wilderness. I _like_ my sky clear and blue and my city free of the thunder of cars and jackhammers. I’m no technocrat. But goddamit, who wouldn’t want a fully automatic, laser-guided, armor-piercing, self-replenishing personal sidearm?
Nice turn of phrase, huh? I finally memorized it one night, from one of the hoppers, as he stood in my bedroom, pointing his hand-cannon at another hopper, enumerating its many charms: “This is a laser-guided blah blah blah. Throw down your arms and lace your fingers behind your head, blah blah blah.” I’d heard the same dialog nearly every day that month, whenever the dimension-hoppers catapaulted into my home, shot it up, smashed my window, dived into the street, and chased one another through my poor little shtetl, wreaking havoc, maiming bystanders, and then gateing out to another poor dimension to carry on there.
