Last month, Annalee Newitz wrote a piece for io9.com about recent science fiction that plays with the idea: “what if ‘Intelligent Design’ wasn’t just a stealth marketing gimmick for creationism?” Here’s another recent novel for Newitz’s list: I bought Kay Keynon’s Bright the Sky while I was at Denvention 3. In it, some god-like aliens [...]
Avram Grumer with EMP-proof blog software. ETA: Holy Mother of Comets! That wasn’t just a notebook: it was a sketchblog!
Lois Bujold’s guest of honor speech at Denvention 3 was about genre boundaries, expectations, and her experiments with breaking them: In fact, if romances are fantasies of love, and mysteries are fantasies of justice, I would now describe much SF as fantasies of political agency. [via Cynthia Gonsalves]
So, had every intention of making it to the Libertarian Futurist Society’s Prometheus Award ceremony. But I was watching the time on my Mac (still on Pacific) instead of my iPhone (mountain,) and missed it. But Fred Moulton passed along a photo of Jo Walton with her award for Ha’penny. Photo Credit: Fred Molton
Arrived in Denver just ahead of a thunderstorm with wind and hail.