Looking forward to the online Nebulas this weekend, albeit with a little trepidation as to how it will work. Well, I’m game to try it. One of the more interesting parts of the weekend is that this year the Nebulas overlap with a professional meeting that I usually attend. I had figured that I would […]
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Mid-week Maunder 20 May 2020
A fairly light week this week, but then we have the online Nebulas at the end of next week. Very interested to see how this works. While the scale will be reduced and the spontaneous personal connections can’t happen, the online modality does make it possible for people to participate without having to buy airline […]
Mid-week Maunder 13 May 2020
The audiobook is now on sale!! Check it out on Amazon or Audible. Mostly buried in the new draft this week. I did have time to do some reading, though. Picked up Sharan Newman’s Defending The City of God, non-fiction history of the Crusader states concentrating on the first half of the twelfth century. I […]
Mid-week Maunder 6 May 2020
The Nebula Awards have put up the schedule for the meeting 29 – 31 May. Many of the sessions look good and I plan to attend a number of them. Zoom has been working well for a number of different meetings; it will be interesting to see how it goes for a very large one. […]
Mid-week Maunder 30 April 2020
As you can see from the date, I’m a day late with this post. No excuse for that, or no good one. Need to do better. I did finish Sharon Kay Penman’s historical fiction, The Land Beyond The Sea. This is a magnificent book, the story of the downfall of Outremer, the Crusader Kingdom of […]
Mid-week Maunder 22 April 2020 – more hard sf
I talked a little about the concept of hard sf last week. One topic I mentioned but didn’t go into is the idea of hibernation/deep sleep/suspended animation. For all the attention that we pay to physics, we don’t spend much time on this, but if we don’t have an FTL drive or a multi-generation ship, […]