Monthly Archives: July 2007

Had a long interesting conversation with Gary Wolfe today. We touched on what, if any, influence Robert Heinlein continues to have on the science fiction field today. My own thought is that his last influential novel (not good, just influential) was Starship Troopers. That puppy smacked the field around, and the amount of stuff written … Continue reading »

Welcome, readers, to this most disused of blog spaces. I looked back at my old posts from 2004 and 2005, and I was much more active then. You could rely on me to say something. Now, it’s ‘check out my book review’, or ‘this is what I’ve been doing lately’. Blech. And is nothing happening … Continue reading »

…and John Clute has gone before us to point the way. Curiously, he says “I think Spook Country makes us shiver because we are waiting for the world to tell us volume three.”  Volume 3? Gibson remains the most interesting writer to emerge from science fiction during the 1980s. He’ll be sixty next year.

Eclipse is an original anthology series. This became very clear to me this morning. I was in touch with the publisher, Jason Williams, who is currently reading Eclipse 1, and seems to like it a lot. That was very encouraging. When you’ve been the only person working on something, you always wonder how other people … Continue reading »