2010
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December 2010
- The End is Near
- Just Arrived, 12/31/10
- My 2010 in Review
- To Avoid the Inevitable Onslaught of People Sending it To Me
- The Joys of Owning a Dog
- Note to John Seavey
- Science Fiction and Movie Studios
- A Reminder to Authors About Blurbs
- Some Things I’m Likely to Do in 2011
- Some Things I’d Like to Do
- The Year in Pets
- Sunsets 2010: The Quickening
- A Cr-48 Update
- Look! More Christmas Photos!
- Christmas Eve 2010
- Whatever Best of 2010
- Athena Wishes to Share Some Birthday Music With You
- Athena, Age 12
- The Ultimate Sacrilege
- Seriously Annoying
- An Interview With the Christmas Bunny
- Stats Geekery Addendum
- I Write About Some Science Fiction Films, and Try To Be Brave
- An Interview With the Nativity Innkeeper
- Early Cr-48 Impressions
- I’m a British Fantasy Award Nominee
- It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Nerdmas
- Candy Candy Candy
- Yet Another 10 Things I’ve Done That You Probably Have Not
- About Time
- Zoe, In Japanese Form
- A Relevant Issue With Cloud Computers
- Taxes and Obama
- Stargate: Universe Cancellation Followup
- Ending the Day on a High Note
- Stargate Universe Cancelled
- A General Reminder, Re: Bacon
- Just Arrived, 12/16/10
- Sequels, Remakes, and Transformers in 3-D
- Hey! Baen’s Updated Its Web Site!
- Oh, Bah
- The God Engines Available in Audio
- The King Reclaims His Throne
- ScalziCast 12/14/10
- This One Goes Out to Everyone Following Me on the RSS Feed
- Perhaps a Little Too Wrapped Up in Work
- SFWA and Dorchester Publishing
- Various and Sundry, 12/13/10
- Lopsided Cat is Dubious of the Monkey Thing’s Intentions
- Contemplating Winter and Personal Alternative Histories
- Life is Like That
- ‘Tis the Season For Sun Pillars, Fa La La La La
- A New Spin on a Holiday Classic From Paul and Storm
- A Quick Reminder re: Signed Books For the Holidays
- She’s Ready
- And Now, a Charity Promotion Thread
- My Very Own Christmas Classic
- Accurate But Misleading Movie Descriptions – Fantasy Division
- John Lennon in My Thoughts
- My Bacony Life
- Your Holiday Gift Suggestion List (Everything Else)
- The Android’s Dream and Agent to the Stars Out in Audio; Here’s a Sample
- Not Even Pretending I Didn’t Photoshop the Hell Out of This Sunset
- A Little (Free) Light Reading For the Season
- Patrick Rothfuss’ Worldbuilders Drive, 2010
- Me in the Google eBookstore, Plus Indie Stores and Google eBooks
- Monday Morning Announcements
- And Now A Seasonally Appropriate Blast From the Past
- A Girl and Her Dog, Continued
- How I’m Making Fans of Fantasy Insanely Jealous Today
- The Incredible Scalzi Weight Loss Plan
- A Girl and Her Dog, Grown Up Division
- Hey, Wanna Know Who Won That Fuzzy Nation ARC I Was Giving Away?
- Your Holiday Book Suggestion List (From Authors)
- Big Idea Update + Notice to Authors Re: Upcoming Promo Thread
- Clarion Submission Period Open
- Zoe’s Tale Limited Cover Art
- Here, Have a Jonathan Coulton Video
- Why, Yes, We DID Totally Call That on SG:U
- Translation Awards Fund Raiser
- December Notes
- Sci-Fi: The New Western?
November 2010
- John Steakley, RIP
- Agent to the Stars Mass Market Paperback Out Today
- And Now, A Video Interview
- Another Chance at a Fuzzy Nation ARC
- Meta Cat is Meta
- A Bitter November
- Fuzzy Nation Contest Update
- Quick Contest Reminder
- Dear Rabid SEO-Mongering Jackasses
- Not Dead
- Just Arrived, 11/26/10
- Ugh 2
- Why I’m Totally Having Ham Today
- Germany Gets Fuzzy
- We Pause This Blog For a Moment of Unmanly Squee
- Reminder About the Signed Books for the Holidays Thing
- My Annual “I’m Awake For a Sunrise” Picture
- A Science Fictional Thanksgiving Prayer
- Hey! I’m Giving Away a Fuzzy Nation ARC!
- You Will Either Want to Make This or Will Instantly Become a Vegetarian
- In Which I Now Reveal a Secret
- The Office Tour
- A Girl and Her Dog
- Comments Are a Lot of Work
- Next Year in Toronto
- The Executive Decision to Run Away From the Blog Until Monday
- Adventures in High Contrast Black and White
- Surprise! It’s Open Pimp Thread Time!
- Two More Countries Heard From
- That’s My Kid
- MFA Programs and Commercial Publishing
- Not Quite Accurate SF Movie Descriptions; Favorite Video Games
- Backscattering and Groping
- METAtropolis: Cascadia is Out
- Nebula Award Nomination Period is Open
- My Favorite Negative Review of The God Engines (Today)
- An Open Letter to MFA Writing Programs (and Their Students)
- How I Solved the Deficit
- The Man in the Frey Flannel Suit
- How To Get Signed Books From Me For the Holidays
- Cosmic Coincidences
- The Leaning Tower of Just Arrived Books
- NaNoWriMo and Kvetching
- A Daisy Dog Update
- And Now, A Highly Informal Note on Veterans Day
- Holiday SF/F Films
- Cooks Source Apology
- “Fuzzy Nation” in the UK; “Coffee Shop” at Tor.com
- “Election” Results
- “But Honestly, Monica”: A Song For These Times
- Look What I Got in the Mail Today
- Monday Morning Update
- Nothin’ But Blue Sky
- B&N Search Update, Buying My Books, and, You Know, Stuff
- Follow Up to Cooks Source and World Fantasy
- Fuzzy Nation Release Date
- If You’re Feeling Charitable Today
- The Stupidest Thing an Editor With Three Decades of Experience Has Said About the Web Today
- Dear Barnes & Noble: Crap is Cluttering Up Your Author Searches
- (New) New Theme Notes
- Awesome Scenes Are Not Enough
- Election Thoughts, 2010
- Warning: About to Change Themes Again
- New “Fuzzy Nation” Cover
- The Big Idea: Catherynne M. Valente
- Vote Cat Says Vote
- An Election: A Short Story Presented by Subterranean Press
- A Short Fiction Experiment
October 2010
- Give Her the Candy and No One Gets Hurt
- Saturday Morning Check In
- The Big Idea: James A. Owen
- New Monitor is Here
- A Touch of Color
- New Look, Etc.
- Warning: About to Change Themes
- Just Arrived, 10/27/10
- My Filmcritic.com Column is Back Up
- The Big Idea: Aliette de Bodard
- Why, Yes, I Have a New Short Story Coming
- The Damage
- Why I’m Heading to the Basement Now
- Hey, You Know What’s Really Scary?
- My Very Sensitive Author Photo
- Quoted for Truth
- The Yard FAQ
- The Big Idea: Kathe Koja
- Turns Out Sunday is For Not Being On the Blog, Too
- Saturday is For Not Being on the Blog
- It’s 9PM on Friday Night, Time for a Cat Video
- Daisy, Drowsy
- My Personal World Fantasy Schedule
- Reminder: SFWA Business Meeting at World Fantasy
- The Big Idea: Helen Lowe
- And Now Some Meta
- And Just How Is the New Pup?
- Science Fictional Dogs
- You Look Like You Could Use a Sunset
- Just Arrived, 10/19/10
- The Big Idea: Jackie Morse Kessler
- Narrative Usurpation; Quick Thoughts On the Previous Post
- Things I Don’t Have to Think About Today
- What I’ve Been Reduced To
- There is No Coke Zero in the House, But There is One of These
- Daisy Sits For a Formal Portrait
- Meet Daisy
- Procedural Note Re: The Big Idea
- The Big Idea: Graham Hancock
- Krissy in Profile
- Just Arrived, 10/14/10
- Reading Electronically: A Review
- Shorts and Singles
- Some Whatever Stats Geekery For You
- Lopsided Cat Wishes You to Know He Finds the New Chair Marginally Acceptable
- Harry Potter Gets Flattened
- Book Covers From Distant Lands
- On Where to Send Me E-Mail
- METAtropolis Out in Germany + Sequel News!
- The Big Idea: Matthew J. Kirby
- You Say You’d Like Some More Music? Well, Fine
- E-Mail Glitchination
- My (Unsolicited) Annual Plug for WordPress.com
- A Little Historical Perspective
- New Office Chair
- Viable Paradise 14
- A Visual Representation of My Literary Workshop Critique Style
- Heading Home
- Yes, I Know I’m on Google Quote of the Day
- The Big Idea: Paul Crilley
- The Science Fiction Film Dream Team
- The Big Idea: Richard Kadrey
- Work Work Work
- Travel Day
- When the Yogurt Took Over: A Short Story
- My New Problem
- What I Think About Atlas Shrugged
- Which Reminds Me: I’m Teaching at Clarion Next Year
- A Minor Programming Note
September 2010
- Ghlaghghee Kicks it Old School
- The Big Idea: J.K. Beck
- News on Agent to the Stars, Android’s Dream and The God Engines
- 25 Copies of Cherie Priest’s DREADNOUGHT to Give Away — Hurry!
- Yes, It Was a Very Good Year
- Stargate: Universe Season 2 Debuts Tonight
- The Big Idea: Sam Sykes
- Interview of Me in Lightspeed Magazine
- Justin Coussoule Visits the Scalzi Compound
- Just Arrived, 9/27/10
- Look, I’m Deploying a Cute Picture of My Cat to Distract You From the Fact I Have Nothing of Interest to Say
- Tax Frenzies and How to Hose Them Down
- Your Saturday Placeholder Entry
- The Scalzi Family Mutual Portraiture Club
- New Rule For the Internets, Six-Figure Income Division
- The (Relative) Peace of OH-8
- Athena Dabbles in the World of Comics
- Clash of the Geeks Updatery, 9/24/10
- Your “Whoa, Dude” Moment for Today
- The Big Idea: Nancy Werlin
- Oooh, New SG:U Season 2 Trailer
- Monsters, Tron and Solaris
- Summer’s Last Sunset
- A Chance to Win Clash of the Geeks
- Why Not Feeling Rich is Not Being Poor, and Other Things Financial
- The Big Idea: Elizabeth Scott
- Parenting and Writing
- Hello I Must Be Going
- Clash of the Geeks Write-Ups and Status Check
- Announcing Clash of the Geeks, a Chapbook from Wil Wheaton, John Scalzi and Subterranean Press, to Benefit the Lupus Alliance of America
- Canoes, Canoes, Canoes
- Off Doing Family Stuff
- This Will Be the Most Successful Whatever Entry Yet
- It Really Was Inevitable, Wasn’t It
- Black Sheep
- The Big Idea: A.R. Rotruck
- All Right, Seriously, WTF
- Just Arrived, 9/16/10
- The World’s Largest and Most Ironic Green Thumb
- Writing: Find the Time or Don’t
- Awwwww.
- Technical Note (Update: Mail From Last 24 Hours Gone, Please Resend)
- How to Lose the House
- Changing the World, One Science Fiction Movie at a Time
- Just Arrived, Hiatus Catching Up Edition
- The Big Idea: Nick Mamatas
- Tales from Melbourne
- State of the Scalzi
- My Big News: I’m Toastmaster of Chicon 7, the 2012 Worldcon
- I’m Back, Plus: 12 Years
- So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye
- This Concludes Our Broadcast Day
- My Life In Women’s Roller Derby
- Postmodernism in Fantasy: An Essay by Brandon Sanderson
- True Confessions of a Reading Addict, or, Geographically Inspired Reading, Anyone?
- I Remember
- A Conversation with Brett Warnock of Top Shelf Productions
- One of the most terrifying things you will see on the internet today
- The Big Idea: Sheri S. Tepper
- Heroes
- The Big Idea: Michele Lang
- In Honor of AussieCon4, Here’s Looking at the Finest Sci-fi Films to Be Filmed Down Under
- They Blew Up My Little Pony, Mommy!
- Ode to Oregon, Including a Trio of Sunsets
- The Awesome Side of SF Fandom
- Congrats to the Hugo Winners!
- Is It or Isn’t It?
- Dragon*Con!
- Free Fiction & An Open Pimp Thread
- The Movie-Adaptation Chances for This Year’s Hugo Class
- The Big Idea: Jennifer Ouellette
- The Big Idea: Laura Resnick
- How to — possibly — torpedo one’s own career in epic fantasy.
August 2010
- Caption Contest Winner
- The Big Idea: Harry Connolly
- I can haz sunbeam?
- The Big Idea: Mark Van Name
- First Day of School
- Playlist Confessions
- OMG, Itz Another Caturday!
- The Swell Season Ensure that Their Fans are Not Left ‘Alone Apart’
- Thought experiment: How do you react when you witness bigotry?
- The Big Idea: Mike Shevdon
- Grown Up Decisions
- Wish me luck…
- Kermit goes to the Smithsonian. Plus bacon.
- The 2010 Summer Sci-fi Wrap-Up
- The Big Idea: Matthew Hughes
- My New Ride
- John’s Worldcon Schedule
- Stuff I Like, Part XVIIVJKX!!IL
- Love ‘The Wire’ and ‘Toy Story’? This Post’s for You…
- Your Plan for the Zombie Apocalypse
- Book tours are like time travel
- Happy Caturday
- Inception Parodies
- Don’t Stop Believing for About Forty Minutes
- Meet the Winners of the Wheaton/Scalzi Fanfic Contest!
- Unicorn Pegasus Kitten Update
- Reading tonight in NYC
- The Dollar Value of Nerd Love
- What He Said.
- My Monday
- The Big Idea: Anthony Huso
- …I got nothin’.
- The Coolest Thing You’ll See Today
- Exciting News for Bryan Fuller Fans: Scripting a Pilot for SyFy
- Now Have Another
- Things Weren’t Really That Different When I Was A Kid
- Dormouse, Dormice
- Here, have a sky
- I Heart Scott Pilgrim
- Oh, peaches! Oh, woe!
- The Big Idea: Zoe Ferraris
- The Rumpus (“Busting at Its Seams” edition)
- Subterranean Press Movin’ Out Ebay Auctions
- A Celebration of Heinlein: A Tor.com Blog Symposium
- Ten Great Directors Who Flopped in Sci-Fi
- The Big Idea: Ted Chiang
- Choices, choices…
- Kagan, the SCOTUS, and You!
- Herding Cats
- Well, you see, when two fantasy writers love each other very much…
- The Last Colony Wins A Seiun Award
- A Word From The Jury Of Awesomeness
- The Thing About Monkeys
- Video Game Neuroses
- Lions and tigers and catnip, oh my!
- Inception Obsession
- This is my life right now.
- The Big Idea: Kat Richardson
- The God Engines Now Available In Apple’s iBook Store
- At NASFIC
- Pondering Inception’s Sequel Odds and Revisiting the Bechdel Test
- “Hey, Wasn’t there Supposed to be a Fourth Guest Blogger?”
- The Other One
- Shadowlight Productions with some kick-ass puppetry
- The Big Idea: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Admitting one’s problem is the first step…
- My Dice, Let Me Show You Them
- Sup
- To comfort you in your time of need…
July 2010
- Heading Out
- A Pre-Hiatus Gift to You: A Free E-Book!
- Meet the Guest Bloggers
- Here, Have a Stargate: Universe Season Two Trailer
- The Big Idea: S.A. Swann
- A Passing Thought
- The Upcoming Scalzi Hiatus: What You Need to Know
- Science Fiction Film Meets the Bechdel Test
- Droid X Day II: The Droidinationing
- Angry Red Sunset
- Marjorie M. Liu and Kelley Armstrong Have a Conversation About Writing
- Look! I Am Drawing Your Attention to These Things!
- The Big Idea: A.C.E. Bauer
- Droid X First Impressions
- As Required By the Internets
- Oooh
- What Hollywood Doesn’t Want to Hear Right About Now
- Sunday is For Counting One’s Fingers
- The Trouble With Mid-Career Advice
- And Now, a Completely Context-Free Quote From My Wife
- Today’s Cane Shaking On the Lawn: Apps
- Meanwhile, in the Land of Cats
- Also, Holy Crap, Harvey Pekar’s Dead
- Sherrod and Breitbart
- And Now, Some Complete Randomness
- Thinking (in Type) About Buzz, Inception and Predators
- Sunset, 7/20/10
- Reminder: Vote for the Hugos
- “The President’s Brain is Missing” Live at Tor.com; “After the Coup” Live at eBookstores
- The Big Idea: Anne Zouroudi
- From the “Disgusting Yet Fascinating” Drawer
- Wireless Giveaway: Act Quickly! (UPDATE: All Gone!)
- Coda
- Kodi Addendum
- Kodi, 1997 – 2010
- Where I Have Been, Revealed
- Where Have I Been
- Away From the Keyboard (Again!)
- It’s Not Dreamscape
- How to Read My New Short Story a Week Early
- The Big Idea: Alethea Kontis
- Away From the Keyboard, 7/12/10
- I Have No Time to Play Today, So Here’s a Picture of a Cat and Some Books
- Various and Sundry, 7/10/10
- SFWA and Night Shade Books
- Another Typical Day at the Scalzi Compound
- My Latest Thing
- The Big Idea: Karen Lord
- Today’s Small Thing Which Brought Me Such Joy
- For When You Want to Send an E-Mail to the SFWA President
- SciFi 70s Flashback!
- Hey, John, What Does the Front of Your House Look Like At the Moment?
- The Big Idea: Carrie Vaughn
- Mary Robinette Kowal Sneaks You a Peek at Her Debut Novel
- “Judge Sn” Review at San Francisco Book Review
- July 4th at the Scalzi Compound: A Visual Guide
- Status Check, Re: USA
- Just Arrived 7/3/10
- To the Anonymous Person Who Just Sent Me That Thing
- The Dark Object Has Arrived
- One Terrifying Way Being SFWA President is Changing My Life
- The Big Idea: Amelia Beamer
- Update on Wil Wheaton/John Scalzi Fan Fiction Contest
- An Entirely Sober Note to Begin MY REIGN OF TERROR My SFWA Presidency
June 2010
- Canadians! They’re Everywhere!
- The Full-Time SF Novelist: Probably Not as Endangered as You Think
- Summer Schedule + Upcoming Hiatus Announcement
- Just Arrived, 6/29/10
- Why, Yes, I Still Actually Buy Books
- The Big Idea: Larry Doyle
- My Autographing Policy
- Green Giveaway: Act Quickly! (UPDATE: All Gone Now)
- I’ll Tell You For the Last Time
- Scenes From a Summer Thunderstorm
- Hay Bales: A Sunday Photo Essay
- The Android’s Dream Wins the Kurd Lasswitz Preis
- Sunset 6/26/10
- What We’re Doing With Our Saturday
- I Have Houseguests!
- The Fantasy of Modern Technology, and the Reality
- Back in MY Day, We Got One Blog Post a Day, and We Called It THE NEWSPAPER
- The Big Idea: Meg Gardiner
- Spontaneously Appearing Cake: A Poll
- Unicorn Pegasus Kitten in Song Form
- Office in Progress
- Please Stand By
- Science Fiction Films and the Environment
- I Totally Have a Deadline Today
- And Now For Some Winsomely Winsome Music
- The Self-Awareness of Incompetence (or Lack Thereof)
- Repeat
- Joe Barton Just Wants to Have His Life Back
- Dude, I am HUGE in Germany + METAtropolis Review
- 15 Years
- The Big Idea: Nnedi Okorafor
- Dateiversary
- Book Sequels and the Likelihoods Thereof
- The Failure Mode of Clever
- 80s Science Fiction Films: Which Should Get the “Karate Kid” Treatment?
- One of the Better Questions I Ever Asked
- From the “Hey, This is Nice” Bin
- The Big Idea: Leanna Renee Hieber
- Hugo Voters Packet is Expanding
- Two Weeks to Viable Paradise Application Deadline
- The God Engines Available on Kindle; Other Electronic Formats Soon
- Taking the Weekend Off
- Quick Fanfic Contest Update
- The Big Idea: Michael Koryta
- My w00tstock Bit: Morning Announcements at the Lucas Interspecies School for Troubled Youth
- Final w00tstock Notes
- Six for Six!
- Athena’s Pickle Juice Adventure
- Sci-Fi Rides I’d Cruise In
- My METAtropolis “World Without Oil” Haiku Contest Winner
- The Big Idea: Stacia Kane
- Still Reading Haiku
- On When I’ll Announce My METAtropolis Contest Winner
- Appallingly Early Tuesday Update
- Reminder: METAtropolis Contests Final Day
- Prepping for w00tstock
- Up in the Air
- Saturday Update
- Jeanne Robinson
- Oh, Joy, More Travel
- The Enduring Power of Bacon Cat
- Wheaton/Scalzi Contest Addendum Entry Post Thing
- Good Luck, Paul Cornell And Pulse!
- The Big Idea: Ryk E. Spoor
- Post-Tornado Watch Clouds
- METAtropolis Contest, One of Five: Win the Tor Edition!
- Splice This
- I’m Alive
- Why, Yes, I DO Look Insufferably Smug Here, Don’t I
- Because the Fan Club Has Had Quite Enough of That “Patience” Nonsense
- About That Miranda Supreme Court Ruling
- Quick Note to Authors/Editors/Publicists Wanting a Big Idea Slot
- The Head of John Scalzi Demands Blood
- Revealing the Unicorn Pegasus Kitten + Sunday/Monday Recap
May 2010
- Oh Crap, I’m Connecting Through O’Hare
- Wil Wheaton/John Scalzi Fan Fiction Contest to Benefit the Lupus Alliance of America
- Oh, And…
- Status Update: Sunday Morning
- Status Update: Saturday Morning
- Status Update: Friday, Noonish
- The Nicest Sports Story You’ll Read Today
- The Big Idea: David J. Williams
- Public Art
- Off to Phoenix
- Sunset, 5/26/10
- German METAtropolis Cover
- The Big Idea: Robin Becker
- 3D Movie Prices — IN 3D!!!
- The Wife is Strangely Unconvinced I Will Return Her New iPad
- Once Upon a Time Judy Blume’s 401(k) Went Belly Up and George Lucas Wanted to Help
- Pictures, 5/24/10
- Apropos to Absolutely Nothing at All
- My Phoenix Comicon Schedule
- The Big Idea: Vicki Pettersson
- Off Today
- Just Arrived, 5/22/10
- Product Placement
- The Rand Paul Conundrum
- One Small Detail Regarding The Big Idea
- And What Does It Say About Me That My Response Is To Haul Out An Obscure 12″ Version of an Equally Obscure 80s Synth-Pop Song
- The Big Idea: Paolo Bacigalupi
- Today’s ZOMFG Moment
- Modern Marriage
- The Final Frontier, in Film and in Real Life
- Why “Punishing the Publisher” Usually Doesn’t
- For Those of You Who Missed the Live Show
- The Big Idea: Greg Van Eekhout
- Some Notes on Being Elected President of SFWA
- Also, to Catch Everyone Up Fully
- SciFi Birthday Wishes
- Quick Nebula Recap
- Busy Busy Busy
- The Big Idea: Alaya Johnson
- The Greatest Poll of All
- Jane Siberry Gives It Away
- Florida Book Signing This Friday
- In Shocking News, Popular Media Figure Makes Money
- The Big Idea: Holly Black
- Okay, That’s Vaguely Spooky
- Oh, Hey, Look, a Deadline
- The Big Idea: Guy Gavriel Kay
- 41
- The Last Picture of the 40-Year-Old Me
- The (New) New Keyboard
- The Wind Done Blowed
- Just Arrived, 5/8/10
- Very Vaguely Related to Previous Entries Today
- Thing I Did Today Some Might Think Out of Character (But Isn’t)
- Just Arrived, 5/7/10
- The Big Idea: Maurice Broaddus
- Various & Sundry, 5/6/10
- Iron Man 2 Questions
- The Big Idea: Ellen Datlow
- A Money Entry of Sorts
- Author Pokes Fanfic Hive! Film at 11!
- 2010 Hugo Voters Packet and AussieCon4 Online Registration Now Live
- Signed First Editions of The God Engines Available
- And Five Minutes After the Rainstorm
- Surprise Shower
- Input This
- The Big Idea: Jeri Smith-Ready
- One Of Those Small Ironies
- Back Home
- Hey, Look, It’s the Weekend
April 2010
- Asimov’s Accepting Electronic Submissions
- The Big Idea: Mira Grant
- Quick Romantic Times Recap
- Marjorie Liu’s New Video Game
- The New Desk
- Science Fiction Film Summer Preview
- Early Wednesday Morning Check In
- Today’s Good News
- Update on Me
- Two SFWA-Related Links
- The Big Idea: J.A. Pitts
- Today’s Thing I Just Don’t Quite Understand
- The New Netbook
- Toronto Recap
- Merril Update; More Travel
- The Big Idea: Leah Cypess
- In Toronto
- Your “Hey I’m Traveling” Pimp Thread
- Can Michael Bay Do Romantic Comedy?
- Heading Down Under
- MFAs, Writing and Teacher Guilt
- A Note I Probably Should Have Posted Prior to Wednesday
- The Big Idea: Pamela Ribon
- Just Arrived, 4/19/10
- Reminder: I’m in Toronto on Friday
- Taking Off the Weekend
- Two Quick Links for a Friday Afternoon
- The Big Idea: Vance Briceland
- Yet Another Reminder That When You Call Obama a Socialist Actual Socialists Think You’re Ignorant as a Gerbil
- Birthday Parties Come and Go But Therapy is Forever
- Questions for Orbit, Re: Its New Digital Short Fiction Program
- Just Arrived, 4/14/10
- Science Fiction Not From “SciFi Directors”
- The Cilantro Division
- And Now, A Brief Moment of Public Recognition (and Thanks)
- Fuzzy Nation Sold
- Today’s “Oh, Look, Spring” Moment
- So, Taxes
- The Big Idea: Ian Tregillis
- Fuzzy Addenda
- Just Arrived, 4/11/10
- Your Deep Thought For a Saturday
- eARCs: Big Fat PublicityFail
- By Request
- Speaking of Little Fuzzies
- The Big Idea: Heather Tomlinson
- Quick Fuzzy Nation Addendum
- The Super Secret Thing That I Cannot Tell You About, Revealed: Introducing Fuzzy Nation
- On How Many Times I Should Get Paid For a Book (By Readers)
- Film’s Most Successful SF Writer
- No, I Don’t Have One
- Yes, This
- State of Me
- The Big Idea: Susan Beth Pfeffer
- Hugo Thoughts, 2010
- 2010 Hugo Nominees
- Happy Easter
- What? We Can’t Use Slave Labor and Call It an Internship?!?
- Reminder: SG:U is Back! Tonight! At Nine! On Syfy!
- The Big Idea: Jetse de Vries
- Tom Becker
- Announcing the Announcement of Something: Or, Did You Know It’s April Fool’s Day?
- Fake 3D: An Extra Dimension of Suck?
March 2010
- In Some Ways Admirable, In Some Ways Delusional
- In Exile
- Today’s Strangely Compelling Silliness
- Final Nebula Vote Reminder
- The Big Idea: Dan Wells
- Just Arrived, 3/29/10
- Engaging in w00tstockery, June 7 in Minneapolis
- This Week’s Geek
- Reader Request Week 2010 #8: Short Bits
- Reader Request Week 2010 #7: Writery Bits
- Reader Request Week 2010 #6: Depression
- The Big Idea: Kelly O’Connor McNees
- Why Obama Scares Me (In A Good, Non-Tea Baggery Sort of Way)
- Reader Request Week 2010 #5: Rural Ohio, Revisited
- Column Moves; Living in Science Fiction Film Universes
- Reader Request Week 2010 #4: Quitting Writing
- Reader Request Week 2010 #3: How I Think
- Ooooh, Pretty
- The Big Idea: Tom Fowler
- Reader Request Week 2010 #2: Rewriting the Constitution
- I Can Say This Because He’s My Representative
- Reader Request Week 2010 #1: Christianity and Me
- Health Care Passage Thoughts
- Ever So Slightly Ridiculous
- Not Dead
- Peter Watts Update
- Just Arrived, 3/19/10
- A Veritable Festival of White Hot Linkages (and Stuff)
- Interview at The Nebula Awards Site
- Because I Know More of You Enjoy Phineas and Ferb Than Will Admit in Mixed Company
- Why Hollywood Gets the Future Wrong
- Reader Request Week 2010: Get Your Requests In!
- Messmaker, Messmaker, Make Me a Mess
- The Big Idea: Carrie Ryan
- The Slightly Less Temporary Temporary Office
- The New Office Floor
- The Temporary Office
- (Probably) Offline Until Tuesday
- The Definition of Last Minute
- In the Kingdom of the Worms
- My Floor, In Pre-Floor Form
- Oooh, Look, a Trailer for SG:U Upcoming Episodes
- New Colors
- Today’s Little Irony
- A Small Note Re: Response Times
- How Oscar Slipped Past Avatar
- For Paul and Storm Fans and Those Who Just Don’t Know They’re Fans Yet
- The Office Stripped Bare
- The Big Idea: Skyler White
- Just Arrived, 3/10/10
- My Office, In Handy Box Form
- Why Of Course I’ll Be Happy To Show You My Prom Picture
- Today’s Reminder of the Consistent Awesomeness of My Wife
- Amelia Beamer, Sex and Zombies, Serialized Fiction
- The Big Idea: Dave Goldberg and Jeff Blomquist
- A Quick Note to Universal Home Entertainment
- Because People Ask: Book Acquisition Details
- Just Arrived, 3/8/10
- Monday Morning Housekeepery
- Your Oscar Night Open Thread
- My Ubiquity In Your Online Life: A Poll
- The Future Soon Now
- EBooks, Free, The Value Thereof
- The Big Idea: Teri Hall
- MilSFery
- Comments and Communities
- Final SF Oscar Thoughts
- Oscar and Me
- Just Arrived, 3/3/10
- The Big Idea: Blake Charlton
- Casting My (SFWA) Vote
- Micro(ish) Update
- Talk Amongst Yourselves
- Just Arrived, 3/1/10
- Your March Science Fictional Reminderations
February 2010
- Knowing When Not to Bigfoot Someone
- A Birthday Tune
- The Awesome Yet Terrifying Power of Abba Zaba
- TGE Review at SFReviews.net, Plus a Bonus Childhood Story
- The Big Idea: N.K. Jemisin
- Today’s Irony Twofer
- This Manuscript Hires People
- Handing You Off to Charlie Stross Today
- Technical Note Re: E-mail
- Video Games Into SF Movies
- Just Once I Wish I Could Have a Normal Picture of Me and My Daughter
- Zeus Works on His Cheshire Cat Trick
- The Big Idea: David Louis Edelman
- Signed Chapbook for Auction at “Con or Bust”
- Stargate Universe: I’m Back For Season Two
- The God Engines: Hugo Consideration Edition
- USA Today Piece on Science Fiction and the Oscars
- Just Arrived, 2/22/10
- The Big Idea: Robert McCammon
- One Star Reviews Revisited
- My Secret (Failed) Media Tie-In Past
- Interesting Note on Marriage in the United States
- Final God Engine First Editions — Signed! — at Subterranean Press
- Taking the Day Off
- Mustaches of Years Gone By
- And Now, a Nebula Awards Geek Out Moment
- 2009 Nebula Award Nominations
- Tough But Fair
- Nebula Award Nominations to Be Announced Tomorrow
- The Big Idea: Alex de Campi
- Inglourious Basterds: Is It Science Fiction?
- Just Arrived, 2/17/10
- From the “How Cool is This” Department
- Various & Sundry, 2/17/10
- The Cake That Refreshes
- Me Stuff, 2/16/10
- Athena Wishes You a Groovy Mardi Gras
- Just Arrived, 2/16/10
- The Big Idea: Alexey Pehov
- I Hereby Unilaterally Declare February 15th To Be International Grover Appreciation Day
- Yet Another Snow Day
- Today’s “Dogs! And Cats! Living Together!” Moment
- Sunset, 2/14/10
- Various & Sundry, 2/14/10
- Happy Valentine’s Day
- In the Words of Neo: Whoa.
- All Sorts of Wrong
- The Big Idea: Stephen Deas
- Just Arrived, 2/11/10
- Today’s Tale of Epic Cluelessness
- Winter Survival, Science Fiction Style
- Buzz Buzz Buzz
- My Evanescent Internet Fame
- John Scalzi Answers Mail, Generically
- New TGE Review, Plus Retailer Availability Update
- Ich Bin Gestucken
- And Now, the World’s Least Impressive Icicle
- For the Kodi Fans Out There
- Your Science Fiction Award Nomination Suggestions
- There’s Snow Place Like Home
- Up in the Air: An Open Pimp Thread
- View From the Getty
- In Other News, I’m Old
- Kindle Versions of My Books Now Back Online
- Oh, and About The God Engines
- Books Back on Amazon (But Not Kindle)
- The Big Idea: James Knapp
- And Now, The Obligatory View Out the Hotel Window
- A Technical Thing re: Amazon and My Tor Books
- Mission Accomplished
- Hey, You Know What
- Science Fiction Oscar Thoughts
- A Quick Interview of Me, By Me, To Catch Up With Everything Amazon
- Why In Fact Publishing Will Not Go Away Anytime Soon: A Deeply Slanted Play in Three Acts
- SFWA Has a Point to Make
- Back Naps For Hep Cats
- The Big Idea: Katharine Beutner
- A Note Re: Amazon Links in Big Idea Pieces
- Just Arrived, 2/2/10
- Initial Oscar Thoughts, 2010
- A Call For Author Support
- Just Arrived, 2/1/10
- Procedural Notes, 2/1/10
- And Now, For Those Who Need It, For Whatever Reason: A Picture of My Cat
- Seriously? Now They’re Just Being Dicks
- All The Many Ways Amazon So Very Failed the Weekend
January 2010
- Dear Amazon:
- RIP, Kage Baker
- In Which I Attempt Math — AND WIN!
- On a Personal Note
- It’s All About Timing
- A Quick Note On eBook Pricing and Amazon Hijinx
- Macmillan Books Gone Missing From Amazon
- Re: That “GOPers Are Nihilists” Comment of Mine
- The Intervention is Not Going Well
- Modeling Only the Finest in Pun-Based Geek Apparel
- A Musical Question On a Thursday Evening
- From the Whatever Archives: “Holden Caulfield in Middle Age”
- J.D. Salinger Dead
- State of the Union 2010
- The Big Idea: Sara Miles
- It Is a Good Day To Die!
- Meanwhile, On the Home Front, I Have Growing Suspicions My Male Cats Are Totally Gay
- Obligatory Quick Assessment of the iPad
- iPad Book Availability: No Idea
- Kage Baker
- Perhaps an Indication of How Far Into My Own Head I’ve Been the Last Several Days
- Quick Backend Note re: Comments
- LA Times Article on Science Fiction and the Oscars
- For the Deskgrazing Set
- The Big Idea: Margaret Ronald
- Dear The Internets: I Am Running For President of SFWA
- Meanwhile, On Instant Message, The Truth Emerges
- Bits, 1/25/10
- You Know —
- Weekend Update
- Zeus the Cat Confronts the Existential Conundrum of a Weekend Away From the Internet
- Inevitably Someone Will Complain About Being Called a “Larva”
- Apropos of Today’s Supreme Court Ruling
- The Big Idea: Josh Sundquist
- 3D Thoughts Plus AMC Notes
- Dude. Whoa. Just, Like, Whoa.
- Cherie Priest on Authorial Control
- A Reminder Regarding Political Prognostications
- Judge Sn: The Abridged Audio Version
- Political Thoughts Before Bed
- Brief Administrative Note Re: Deleted Comments
- Just Arrived, 1/19/10
- A Small Piece of Advice to Hopeful “Big Idea” Participants
- The Big Idea: Mark Teppo
- From the “Is There Nothing Sacred” Category
- Workspace Context
- Workspace
- Helping Shawn Powers
- Today Is Family Time Day
- Cult Pop Interview
- Today’s Observation on the Subject of Language
- Instant Podcast 1/15/10
- Things I Don’t Miss
- The Big Idea: Alan DeNiro
- Avatars, Blades, Spiders
- Sunset 1/12/10
- Agent Auf Deutsch
- Today’s Completely Context-Free Statement Which Will Make No Sense to Any Of You Now But Will Later, If You Remember It, Which You Probably Won’t
- Interviewing the Larbalestier Way
- Various & Sundry 1/12/10
- Just Arrived, 1/12/10
- The Big Idea: Patrick Lee
- A Small Request Re: Notifying Me About Typos
- Just Arrived, 1/11/10
- Possession is Nine Tenths of a Nap
- Shorter Joel Stein
- Frosty: The Snow, Man
- How Athena Spent Her Saturday
- That Takes Me Back
- TGE Soon at Borders; Taos Toolbox; Freer’s “Dragons”
- A Mildly Cranky Note to Would-Be Interviewers
- The Big Idea: Sarah A. Hoyt
- Producers, Science Fiction, Oscars
- Special Guest Cat
- Just Arrived, 1/6/10
- “The Big Idea” Open Call to Publicists, Editors and Authors
- The 2010 Award Pimpage Post
- Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded Out in Trade Paperback
- Hey, You
- Quick God Engines Shipping Update
- Viable Paradise Writing Workshop Accepting Applications
- Housekeepery and Blog Neepery
- New Year’s Vacation
- Five Years of OMW and SF
- Hello, 2010