Audio rights to my story "Skinhorse Goes to Mars" (originally published in PostScripts) have been acquired by Escape Pod
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| 2009-04-02 04:47 |
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"Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) calendula_with and me is live at Clarkesworld — calendula_witch comments here.
"Rolling Steel" in audio format, too
scalzi explains The Sounds of METAtropolis Free For a Limited Time — Download the Hugo-nominated audiobook gratis.
arcaedia with new guidelines for queries
Moses is Departing Egypt: A Facebook Haggadah — Hahahahahahah. (Thanks to calendula_witch.)
British Steam Car Loses Steam — Modern steampunk on wheels. (Thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) chriswjohnson.)
The cutting edge of retro tech — More pure genius from Dark Roasted Blend.
Implantable Telescope for the Eye — "Your clothes, give them to me! Now!"
?otD: Can you hear the evil crowd?
4/2/2009 Body movement: 30 minute suburban walk This morning's weigh-in: 219.6 Currently reading: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville; Making Money by Terry Pratchett
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| 2009-02-13 09:03 |
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Don't forget to vote in the latest contest for an ARC of Green [ Amazon ]
An audio version of my short story "Jesus and the Cowboys" is up at Starship Sofa
Neanderthal Genome Unraveled — But the researchers confirmed that the ancient hominid did share with us the only gene known to be implicated in speech and language, FoxP2... Wow.
Periodic Table of the Elephants — (Thanks to safewrite.)
PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Koala Rescued From Australia Fires — (Thanks to chriswjohnson.)
The Pink Gorilla Suit — Or, why being a cop can suck. (Thanks to danjite.)
From the 2009-02-12 Senate calendar — At 11:30am there will be a ceremony honoring the 200th anniversary of the birth of President Abraham Lincoln in the Capitol rotunda. Really? He was born there?
Obama's Legislative Victory Comes at High Cost — Karl Rove on Obama's governing style: House Republicans had the wisdom to continue to talk to the Obama White House. This made them look gracious, even as the president edged toward a "my way or the highway" attitude. Um... um... um... um... um...
?otD: My God...what have I done?
2/13/2009 Body movement: 50 minute stationary bike ride This morning's weigh-in: n/a Currently reading: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville
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It's time for the annual award pimpage post. (Well, the Nebulas work differently, but you know what I mean.) Here's my list of my own favorites of my eligible work from 2008, for your consideration as you contemplate nominations for Hugos, Nebulas and World Fantasy Awards.
NovelEscapement, Tor Books, June, 2008, ed. Beth Meacham
Novella"America, Such as She Is", Alembical, November, 2008, Paper Golem Press, ed. Lawrence M. Schoen and Arthur Dorrance
Short Story" The Sky That Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and into the Black", Clarkesworld, March, 2008 " A Water Matter", Tor.com, October, 2008
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long FormMETAtropolis, Audible.com, October, 2008, ed. John Scalzi (audio book [ iTunes], written by Tobias Buckell, Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, John Scalzi and Karl Schroeder; read by Scott Brick, Michael Hogan, Alessandro Juliani, Kandyse McClure and Stefan Rudnicki)
Best Fan WriterIf you are interested in nominating me and my blog for this category, feel free. I don't consider myself a Fan Writer in that sense, but I don't feel a need to bow out of the category either. ETA: Post edited to cope with a Hugo eligibility issue. Also, inexplicably, the first version of this post listed Mainspring when it should have read Escapement. My thanks to katster for the catch.
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Starship Sofa with, among many other good things, a podcast of my flash piece “A Conspiracy of Dentists”
The Fix reviews The Best of Abyss & Apex
Amazon Aims at Content Delivery — Interesting future state stuff.
APOD with a photo of the smiling heavens
Polar opposites — Some coverage of the possibly imminent (in geological terms) flipping of the Earth’s magnetic field. (Thanks to lt260.)
And for LJ readers, because flist display of my posts continues intermittently borked, something which I’m told wasn’t visible to everyone the first time:
The writing career meme
If you’ve missed recent link salads, believe me, they’ve been there. Try this.
?otD: I want to know, have you ever seen the rain?
12/03/08
Body movement: 30 minutes on stationary bike
This morning’s weigh-in: 223.2
Currently reading: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville
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I am pleased to announce that the audio-anthology METAtropolis is currently available for pre-order. Original fiction by Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, John Scalzi, Karl Schroeder and me. This means the list of readers is also out, a very start-studded cast indeed. Here’s the ToC:
1. “In the Forests of the Night” by Jay Lake, read by Michael Hogan (Col. Tigh on Battlestar Galactica)
2. “Stochasti-city” by Tobias Buckell, read by Scott Brick (2008 Audie Award winner, for Dune)
3. “The Red in the Sky is Our Blood” by Elizabeth Bear, read by Kandyse McClure ( Anastasia “Dee” Dualla on BSG)
4. “Utere Nihil Non Extra Quiritationem Suis” by John Scalzi, read by Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Felix Gaeta on BSG)
5. “To Hie From Far Cilenia” by Karl Schroeder, read by Stefan Rudnicki (reader of the Ender’s Game series)
Pretty damned squee, hey?
The anthology will be released on October 21st. If you pre-order now through Audible, they will give you my story as a teaser.
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There's a new podcast up today. This is a recording of me reading my short story "The Angel's Daughter". At 1,200 words, this originally appeared in the August, 2004 issue of Realms of Fantasy, then reprinted in Fantasy: The Best of 2004 [ Amazon ]. It was also recently featured as a free reprint here on my blog. If you like the story, please consider subscribing to Realms of Fantasy.
Direct link is here. RSS feed is here or here, depending on which one your reader likes better. The iTunes feed is here. You can also simply search for "Jay Lake" or "Lakeshore" in the iTunes store, under the Podcast category.
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There's a new podcast up today. This is a recording of me interviewing Fairwood Press publisher Patrick Swenson (a/k/a tbclone47) about Fairwood Press, his work and his life. The interview was conducted Saturday, February 16th, at Radcon 5.
Direct link is here. RSS feed is here or here, depending on which one your reader likes better. The iTunes feed for my podcast is here. You can also simply search for "Jay Lake" or "Lakeshore" in the iTunes store, under the Podcast category.
This podcast and its contents are © 2008, Joseph E. Lake Jr.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
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There's a new podcast up today, a special out of sequence with the usual editorial calendar. This is a recording of me reading my short story "The Lizard of Ooze", a New Weird piece that first ran in Flytrap issue 4, and has recently been reprinted in The New Weird, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. See here for an interview with me about "The Lizard of Ooze" and the Dark Towns story cycle of which it is a part.
If you like this piece, please support Flytrap [ Tropism Press ], and check out The New Weird [ Powell's | Amazon ].
Direct link is here. RSS feed is here or here, depending on which one your reader likes better. The iTunes feed is here. You can also simply search for "Jay Lake" or "Lakeshore" in the iTunes store, under the Podcast category.
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There's a new podcast up today. This is a recording of a reading I did at Potlatch 17 in Seattle, Washington. The story is "The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black", a science fiction short story that appears in the current (March, 2008) issue of Clarkesworld Magazine [ story ]. If you like this piece, please support Clarkesworld Magazine.
Direct link is here. RSS feed is here or here, depending on which one your reader likes better. The iTunes feed is here. You can also simply search for "Jay Lake" or "Lakeshore" in the iTunes store, under the Podcast category.
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Yes, the dateline is early. There's a new podcast up today, post-dated to this coming Sunday. I'm putting it up early due to my upcoming travel schedule.
This is a recording of me interviewing Dr. Harry Turtledove about his life, his work and the Alternate History genre. The interview was conducted Saturday, February 16th, at Radcon 5.
Direct link is here. RSS feed is here or here, depending on which one your reader likes better. Though this episode won't be on iTunes until Sunday or Monday, the iTunes feed for my podcast is here. You can also simply search for "Jay Lake" or "Lakeshore" in the iTunes store, under the Podcast category.
This podcast and its contents are © 2008, Joseph E. Lake Jr.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
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There's a new podcast up today. This is a recording of me interviewing Ann VanderMeer and jeffvandermeer about Weird Tales, Ministry of Whimsy Press, the New Weird (both the movement and their recent anthology of the same title), and steampunk (ditto the above). The interview was conducted Friday, February 22nd, at the South Carolina Book Festival.
Direct link is here. RSS feed is here or here, depending on which one your reader likes better. The iTunes feed is here. You can also simply search for "Jay Lake" or "Lakeshore" in the iTunes store, under the Podcast category.
This podcast and its contents are © 2008, Joseph E. Lake Jr.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
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There's a new podcast up today. This is a recording of me reading my story "Arrange the Bones." At 1,000 words, this originally appeared in Say...Was that a Kiss? back in 2002, then reprinted by Prime Books in my 2004 collection, Dogs in the Moonlight [ Powell's | Amazon ]. If you like the story, please consider supporting Fortress of Words and their Say... zine, as well as Prime Books. I also recently posted the text of story here in a Creative Commons online release.
RSS feed is here or here, depending on which one your reader likes better. The iTunes feed is here. You can also simply search for "Jay Lake" or "Lakeshore" in the iTunes store, under the Podcast category.
This podcast and its contents are © 2002, 2004, 2008, Joseph E. Lake Jr.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
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Movie mashups — Speed Eraserhead, anyone?
I may be a distant cousin of Barack Obama — Some of my ancestors are Kansas Dunhams from the same small town as his mother, who is a Dunham. Also, the town where Rocket Science [ Powell's | Amazon ] is set. (Thanks to Aunt Mary for spotting this.)
Blessed are the cheesemakers — ellameena becomes my new hero.
Ask Oxford — My dad sends along this link to the Oxford Dictionaries site, with a number of help resources.
StarshipSofa: SF Audio Podcast — These folks brought themselves to my attention. Worth checking out...looks like they've got a lot going on for your earbuds.
Eccentric genius: Antiques from a Parallel Universe — (Thanks to Z.)
Science — Shorpy with a WWII photograph that looks like a Thomas Dolby album cover.
Cheeseburger in a can — If this is available in the US, I'll order one and try it. (Thanks to AH. I think.)
The Fail Blog — Hahahah. (Thanks to AH.)
Reviews of the Bic Crystal Ballpoint Pen — Teh funny. (Thanks to tempested_bird.)
Vodaphone looking into femtocells — I had to click through to figure out what a femtocell was. Interesting squib about distribution cellular networks even further.
The most expensive PCs — (Thanks to lt260.)
Brattleboro, VT engages in sedition — (Thanks to lt260.)
Why Obama Matters — lordofallfools sends along this fascinating Andrew Sullivan article in The Atlantic about Obama as a unifier. The theme is that he can bridge the cultural divide of the last 40 years, with its roots in the Baby Boom's divide over Vietnam. (The fact that Sully has to balance the violent rantings of O'Reilly on the right with the carefully measured reasoning of Olbermann on the left (for example) in order to help make his case tells me a lot about the nature of the divide.)
Food Fight — A filmic critique of the history of modern warfare, culminating in the global war on terror, in food. Weirdly compelling.
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There's a new podcast up today. This is a recording of a reading I did at World Fantasy 2007 in Saratoga Springs, New York. The story is "Hard Times in the State of Nature", a short story about philosophy and God that recently appeared in my collection The River Knows Its Own [ Wheatland Press | Amazon ]. This seemed particular apropos in light of the ongoing discussion at daveraines' LJ about the internal narrative of atheists.
RSS feed is here or here, depending on which one your reader likes better. The iTunes feed is here. You can also simply search for "Jay Lake" or "Lakeshore" in the iTunes store, under the Podcast category.
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There's a new podcast up today. This is a recording of a bar interview between me, kenscholes and frankwu at Rustycon 25. In this mercifully brief podcast we discuss the human body, the nature of humor and current and upcoming work.
RSS feed is here or here, depending on which one your reader likes better. The iTunes feed is here. You can also simply search for "Jay Lake" or "Lakeshore" in the iTunes store, under the Podcast category.
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There's a new podcast up today. This is a recording of a panel on writing workshops at Foolscap IX, with kate_schaefer, eddvick, Kara Dalkey and me.
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There's a new podcast up today. This is a recording of a lecture I did at 2007 North Coast Redwoods Writers' Conference in Crescent City, California, on how to know when you've succeeded as a writer.
RSS feed is here or here, depending on which one your reader likes better. The iTunes feed is here. You can also simply search for "Jay Lake" or "Lakeshore" in the iTunes store, under the Podcast category.
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Mainspring [ Powell's | Amazon ] is now available at Audible.com. Here's the direct link. Even better, the member home page is showing it as a featured selection.
The good folks at Audible.com have also been kind enough to provide me with a couple of free downloads, which can be used for Mainspring or any other title, including Old Man's War , A War of Gifts: An Ender Story or any of the Dune books. Watch for that as a contest prize shortly here.
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