Moving to Wordpress/Weekly Writing Tip

Hi guys,

I've been putting this off for a while even though I knew I needed to do it sooner or later. Well, this is later. I'm moving SFness to wordpress. The new blog is up and running at www.sfness.com so if you want to click over there yourself you can go right ahead. If you'd rather let me move you with seamless grace thanks to my wizardly coding skills ... well, I'm working on it. Hopefully by end of week I should have things set up so that this page seamlessly redirects to the new one and current subscribers' RSS feeds also make the migration without a hiccup. But if you do experience some hiccups at least you know why ... and where to find me.

And now, to tempt you into making the trip yourself, let me offer you some luscious new content at the new site, the first in what I hope will be a new series of Weekly Writing Tips.

Thanks for your patience with the move, and looking forward to seeing you!

Walter Jon Williams Interview

More coolness. Lightspeed Magazine asked me to interview Walter Jon Williams for them, which I did. It was a lot of fun. It gave me a chance to read his latest book, Deep State, and reread some old favorites, like Hardwired and The Green Leopard Plague.  Good stuff. The kind of good stuff that gets better on the second read. There's a reason why people call Walter 'the science fiction writer's science fiction writer.'

Actually, one of the unexpected benefits of doing the interview was that I found my way to the 'books' page of Walter's site. This page lists all of his published work, much of it now available in ebook format. I've been working my way through the list, catching up with all the stuff of his I've missed through the years. I'm having a lot of fun -- and losing a certain amount of sleep too, since Walter specializes in writing the kinds of books you can't put down. 

From this Crooked Timber....

February was an insanely busy writing month for me, with several things going on that I promise to post about soon. For now, however, here's a lovely article from the always thoughtful Irish political blog Crooked Timber about looking to science fiction writers for intelligent predictions about the political ramifications of mechanization and globalization. Notably, the writers it mentions are Iain Banks (a personal favorite); Walter Jon Williams (with whom I just did an interview for Lightspeed Magazine in which we discussed this very question); and Frederik Pohl, my single favorite golden age writer, and the co-author of my pick for the best SFnal critique of modern consumer-based capitalism ever: The Space Merchants.