Monthly Archives: January 2007

Jessica decided my office is where the wild things are. She’s sitting in my office chair. Behind her, stacks of books that somehow must leave the house.

I’ve been discussing editing, anthologies, Australian science fiction and so on over at Alisa Krasnostein’s Australian Specfic in Focus, as part of their Focus on Editors. Feel free to drop by and say hi.

Cory Doctorow is letting you download his new collection Overclocked for free. I won’t go into the whole Creative Commons thing, which Cory’s been doing for a while now. Instead a comment on the book. I’ve read all of the stories in Overclocked, and reprinted half of them in various year’s bests, which is something … Continue reading »

A few Thursday notes: Warren Ellis is talking science fiction art and science fiction magazine design. He makes the reasonable point (I summarise) that the sf magazines don’t exactly look cutting edge these days. It’s a fair point. The last great new design I saw was the Analog bedsheet from the ’60s. It’d be nice … Continue reading »

Sophie was sick yesterday, the flu or something , so we sat on the couch, me working on the laptop while she watched Dora the Explorer.