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On the Road, Satori, and The Big Aha
I feel like I’m the only person I know who saw the movie version of Kerouac’s On the Road recently. I liked it a lot, I saw it twice—the first time on it’s release date, which was also my 67th...
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Gnarl All Around
I’ve accumulated a backlog of photos to blog, but I don’t have any long essay-type thoughts today. All my energy is going into The Big Aha, which is about 80% done. I’m pushing pretty hard on it....
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Photo Clearance
More photo clearance today with whatever comments come into my head. I like how the wideangle lens has so much depth of field. That five-sided mirror has always caught my fancy. Almost like something...
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Golden Gate Bridge, Futurism, & the SF Biz
My wife and I were up at the Marin headlands and at the Cavallo Point Lodge in the Fort Baker Park this week. It was a conference sponsored by the Institute for the Future (IFTF), and organized by...
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The Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton
I mentioned that I went to watch the Science Fiction Writer’s of America Nebula Awards meeting in downtown San Jose last week. Right next door in the San Jose convention center was a comics convention,...
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Kickstarter For THE BIG AHA
The big news today is that I’ve launched a Kickstarter project to fund the publication of The Big Aha, the novel I’ve been working on for roughly a year. I’m already getting a good response—and thank...
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Kickstarter Hits Target! “A Gub On Her Bed.”
My Kickstarter campaign to fund my next novel The Big Aha is coming along well—and many thanks to my backers. With any luck we may pass my targeted goal this week. [Update: We passed the target of...
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Full Illustrations For THE BIG AHA
So, cool, the Kickstarter funding for The Big Aha is still going up. Yeah, baby! I’m casting off the shackles of the conventional pub biz. I’ve formulated a new goal, which is to include an...
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Hylozoic in Hawaii
Dig this 4 minute video that a UK guy made to illustrate one of my public talks about hylozoism. You may or may not know that (a) I published a novel called Hylozoic, and (b) that hylozoism is an...
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Illustrating THE BIG AHA. “The Mr. Normals vs. The Myoor”
I finished another painting for my novel today, more info here: The Big Aha project. The new picture’s title is The Mr. Normals vs. The Myoor. “The Mr. Normals vs. the Myoor,” oil on canvas, July,...
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Full Summer. Home Stretch of THE BIG AHA.
I’m on the home stretch of my novel The Big Aha. Getting great support from my Kickstarter backers. Very stoked. I’ve been averaging 300 words a day for about a year, which means I’m up to 95,000...
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Gubs and Wormholes
I finished a new painting called “Gubs and Wormholes” this weekend, and I’m currently planning to use it on the cover of my novel The Big Aha. If I manage to raise a little more money, I’ll try and...
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UX Interview on “SF and User Interfaces of the Future”
The recent issue 13.2, June, 2013 of UX User Experience: The Magazine of the User Experience Professionals Association is on the theme SF and user interfaces. It includes interviews with me and with...
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My Dive Log, 1995-2009
By way of celebrating my completion of the first draft of my novel The Big Aha, I decided to do something completely unrelated. I’ve typed up my dive log book entries from 1995-2009 and I’m posting...
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Genetic Engineering with an SF Interface
Today I finished a new painting called “Study of Picasso’s Girl Before A Mirror.” Lots of work, so many details kept unfolding. Took six or seven sessions. For the last session, I put the original out...
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More Gibberish About Genemodding
I wasn’t quite satisfied with last week’s post, “Genetic Engineering With An SF Interface.” At this point I’m into revising the fourth out of fifteen first-draft chapters of my novel The Big Aha. And I...
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Timeline for My Transreal Novels
As I often say, I’ve written many of my SF novels in what I call a “transreal” style. This means that, although the novels deal with science-fictional scenes, the characters and situations in the...
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Things I Saw This Summer
I’m emptying out some of my backlog of “to blog” photos. Today’s are mostly from this summer. I have some free time now as I finished assembling the second draft of The Big Aha—as I mentioned in my...
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Gnarly SF Reality. #1: What Is Gnarl?
This post and the next one are drawn from an essay called “Gnarly SF” which appears in my Collected Essays. You can read the complete essay online as part of the Collected Essays, but I decided to...
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Gnarly SF Reality. #2: Change the World
This post and the previous one are drawn from an essay called “Gnarly SF” which appears in my Collected Essays. You can read the complete essay online as part of the Collected Essays. I split my...
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