More “Intelligent Design” in SF: Kenyon’s Bright the Sky

September 4, 2008 – 11:56 pm

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 have [...]

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Paper blogging the Worldcon

August 11, 2008 – 11:52 pm

Avram Grumer with EMP-proof blog software.
ETA: Holy Mother of Comets! That wasn’t just a notebook: it was a sketchblog!

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Int’l Legion of Bills

August 11, 2008 – 11:52 pm

Higgins, Humphries, and Stewart

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Lois Bujold Reads from New Miles Book

August 11, 2008 – 11:51 pm

Too small a room. Lots of fans.

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Fantasies of Political Agency

August 11, 2008 – 11:51 pm

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]

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Flurosphere Triumphant

August 6, 2008 – 4:34 pm

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

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Welcome to storm country

August 5, 2008 – 2:41 pm

Arrived in Denver just ahead of a thunderstorm with wind and hail.

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