from Charlie’s Diary My next SF novel, the stand-alone “Glasshouse“, comes out in hardcover on June 30th in the US, and July 6th in the UK. And this is what Publisher’s Weekly had to say about it in their starred review: The censorship wars — during which the Curious Yellow virus devastated the network of […]
Read more "Charlie Stross has a new novel out soon – Glasshouse"A promising possible adaptation of the William Gibson novel.
Read more "Idoru to be made as anime movie"So I flew back into miserable Melbourne last night. My first con officially over. Of course, I’m dragging it out as long as I can.. going to Cory’s PopCornTaxi talk tonight. I’m still trying to digest the whole experience.. but here’s what I’ve digested so far. If you want to be a writer, then write. […]
Read more "What I learned at Conjure"Liz and I are now a day and a half into Conjure 2006.
This is my first ever con. As expected, there are the usual amount of over-extroverted geeks, smelly people and n00bs. There is also a few cool people. Including, of course, the international guests of honour Bruce Sterling and Cory Doctorow.
words and photos on writing workshop with BruceS
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Read more "new precious thing.."from Japanese Fiction Project The Sociological SF of Issui Ogawa Issui Ogawa has written more than a dozen novels and a collection of short stories. Fukkatsu no Chi (Land of Restoration; Hayakawa Shobo, 2004) is a novel in three volumes which, with its setting in the distant future on a remote planet long after the […]
Read more "newly translated Japanese SF to check out.."You bloggers were addicts. The medium was almost as important to you as the content. The technological glitz, the bells and whistles I know it was hard to kick it all cold turkey. But if your content is strong, you can make the transition. Things will just be a little different. But look what Bruce Sterling and the cyberpunks accomplished, without the Internet. After all, even Boing Boing started back then as a fanzine
Read more "funny short-fic on a post-blogging world"from Charlie’s Diary … July will see the publication of my next SF novel from Ace and Orbit, “Glasshouse”, a psychological thriller among the posthuman survivors of a vicious civil war within the human civilization that emerges from the setting of “Accelerando”, hundreds of years hence. … Looking forward to 2007 and beyond, I’ve got […]
Read more "more Stross goodness on its way"a review of Syrup by Maxx Barry
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 