Out of Ambit
Archive for September, 2006
Greetings to the Instapunditry
Wow, more than a thousand fifteen hundred of you have been in since Glenn put up that posting. Welcome! For those of you curious about what’s going on around here at the moment: a precís – First of all, the usual blogging. Tales of travel, cats, food, the home life of a writer married to [...]
In the “Why was I not told about this earlier” department
From an article about the deploying of the International Space Station’s new solar panels: one astronaut is mentioned… …Christopher J. Ferguson, another Navy captain, who is on his first shuttle mission and is a member of the all-astronaut rock band Max Q. The all-astronaut rock band??!! Where do they play? Where can a geek(ette) buy [...]
Appearance schedule change: Fargo Fantasy Festival appearance in ’07 instead of ’06
For those of you who might have been interested in this appearance: Due to convention sponsorship difficulties, DD and PM’s appearance at the Fargo Fantasy Festival in Fargo, North Dakota has been rescheduled for September 21-23, 2007. William Shatner is the featured media guest: other guests will be announced. Please see the convention website for [...]
The tenth planet gets a name
Or the second planette. (Or dwarf planet, or planetoid, or whatever-the-F we’re calling the Small Guys Out Past Neptune this week.) Anyway: the planet formerly known as Xena is now Eris. …Which makes so much sense, given recent events. And her moon is Dysnomia. (Which I would otherwise have pegged as the word for the [...]
Hmm: the first five pages of the Transformers movie
Or so they say. [tags]transformers, transformers movie, transformers film[/tags]
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30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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