This week’s book is vN: The First Machine Dynasty by Madeleine Ashby. Amy Peterson is a self-replicating humanoid robot known as a VonNeumann. For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother’s past, so when her grandmother arrives and […]
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I’m very excited about the newest installment in the Books of Chantments universe. I so enjoy the way magic is handled as something that is both powerful and can embue ordinary objects with extraordinary properties. So what is the author’s Favorite Bit? Let’s see. A. M. DELLAMONICA: I had to think a fair amount about
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I just realized that I have an 1814 copy of Elegant Extracts. I knew I had a couple of books from the early 1800s but it had been a decade or more since I acquired them and had forgotten what they were. We were cleaning and I picked this up and then exclaimed. Why? Because
Zounds! I have an 1814 copy of Elegant Extracts. Read More »
Travel day! So it’s time to play #marygoround again. I’m heading to Seattle to have a writing date with @cmpriest via train. Yes, the yeti is with me, @howardtayler. I learned my lesson last time. Caught the bus to the train station! Have a drink. Also, since I know it’s April Fool’s. When I’m talking about
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Hello! This is Rob Kimbro, adapter and director for Odd and the Frost Giants, guest blogging from Houston. The peeks that Mary’s given us on the blog into the puppet design process have been very useful to us at Stages. And now I get to return the favor a bit. The show is now cast
Woot! Escape Pod has accepted Jaiden’s Weaver for their podcast. I love Escape Pod. It’s my go-to audio fiction source when I’m building puppets so I’m delighted that “Jaiden’s Weaver” is going to appear there. Originally, this story appeared in Mike Brotherton’s Diamonds in the Sky anthology and you can read the entire story there.
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Speaking of paper folding, check out this creation of Matthew Shlian. Very, very nicely done. via Paper Forest: Matthew Shlian amazing paper engineering videos!.
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I just finished a short story which I’d love having a reader or two look over before I send it out. It is 4800 words of science-fiction. It’s in a password protected post, but it’s a new password. Drop me a line and I’ll tell ya. I was never one of those girls who fell
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I read all my manuscripts out loud. It’s not just spelling errors or missing words that I’m looking for. It’s things like this. Cassie looked ahead, expecting to see the Queen’s Court, but the road through the forest still wove through the trees. No kidding. Really? The forest had trees in it? Wow. Maybe I
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Coffee Sensibility: Part III A thousand tortured thoughts flew through my mind as I waited in the vacant chatroom. Where was my beloved duckwrangler508? What if my reply had been lost in cyberspace? What if the address were wrong and he waited elsewhere, convinced I had spurned his attentions? What if a customer wanted coffee
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