2011 WRITE ON THE RIVER CONFERENCE SHOWCASES PACIFIC NORTHWEST LITERARY TALENT Wenatchee’s year-round writing organization has outdone itself this year, bringing three New York Times best-selling authors and an experienced homegrown array of predominantly Pacific Northwest authors and editors to the upcoming May 14-15 conference. Held at Wenatchee Valley College, this conference has become […]
The newest My Hollywood Adventures newsletter by Allan Cole is up! You can find it here.
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My fantasy novel The Arm of the Stone is this month’s free ebook from Phoenix Pick. For the entire month of April, you can download it free by clicking this link and entering Coupon Code 9992593.
In April…
I’m running another book giveaway this month, this time for my recently re-published fantasy novel, The Garden of the Stone (the sequel to The Arm of the Stone, both books now available in trade paperback and ebook format).
The greater Pacific Northwest is home to Ursula K. Le Guin, Kay Kenyon, Jay Lake, Nancy Kress, Brent Weeks, Ted Chiang, and Ramona Quimby. Although Ramona isn’t known for her Science Fiction and Fantasy escapades, the rest are celebrated masters of the genre, and their work will be enjoyed as part of the Pacific Northwest […]
Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner announce Betrayer of Worlds The Fleet of Worlds saga continues … Fleeing the supernova chain reaction at the galactic core, the cowardly Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds have — just barely — survived. They’ve stumbled from one crisis to the next: the rebellion of their human slaves, the […]
Book View Café has launched their benefit anthology, BREAKING WAVES. All proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund of the Greater New Orleans Foundation. The collection features over thirty stories by a wide range of best-selling and award-winning authors, including a previously-unpublished poem from Nebula and […]
Machiavelli advised that, “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” And all he had to scheme about was petty squabbles between Italian city-states. Which brings us to InterstellarNet: New […]
Edward M. Lerner is pleased to announce the mass-market re-release of his 2009 medical-nanotech thriller, Small Miracles. When the gas pipeline exploded, it took a small miracle – or rather a myriad of them – to save Brent Cleary’s life. Only now the small miracles have a mind of their own. And an agenda. “A […]
First prize: A Beaded Sea Creature and an autographed copy of The Moon and the Sun. To celebrate the ebook edition of Vonda N. McIntyre’s Nebula-winning novel The Moon and the Sun, Book View Cafe is hosing a Beaded Sea Creature caption contest. The contest and the rules are on the first page today (www.bookviewcafe.com) […]
AFTER THE FALL
I was created by beings who couldn’t touch this world, only watch it crumble.
I was told, “Do not interfere.”
I wasn’t meant to change history, only guide it.
But I broke Directive Three.
Can humans survive a second collapse?
Auston Habershaw is a science fiction and fantasy author, writing about the could-be and never-was, and also teaches composition and literature at MCPHS University in Boston, MA.
