http://felixgilman.com/wordpress Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:43:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Good review from Publishers Weekly:The Half-Made World Felix Gilman, Tor, $25.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2552-5Gilman (Gears of the City) honors the beauty of the frontier while skewering the colonists who despoil it in this vivid wild west–flavored fantasy. At the western edge of the world, time and space behave oddly and monsters roam. Colonizers push west, ... http://felixgilman.com/wordpress/?p=287 http://felixgilman.com/wordpress/?p=286 I will not be at WorldCon in Australia.  This is a huge shame, because I like Australia, or at least the parts of it I've been to, and of course in the unlikely event that I win the Campbell it would be nice to be there for it, and it ... http://felixgilman.com/wordpress/?p=285 Spent all day painting the kitchen, as phase one of a planned move out to Brooklyn.Then I celebrated Ray Bradbury's birthday by kicking down my neighbors' door and burning all their books.They didn't get the joke at first but when I explained it how we all laughed! Though of course ... http://felixgilman.com/wordpress/?p=284 Someone reminded me that the time to vote for the Hugos/the Campbell award is nearly up (at the end of this month). And I realized that I never did get round to saying how very nice it is to have been nominated for the Campbell again, and how very grateful ... http://felixgilman.com/wordpress/?p=283 I meant to remark on this a while ago, but didn't get round to it until now: Mary Robinette Kowal has posted an excerpt of her first book, Shades of Milk And Honey. It's great and you should read it. One of a number of things I very much like ... http://felixgilman.com/wordpress/?p=282 So clearly the best actually-existing fictional subgenre is the teddy-bear-collecting-themed-murder-mystery. I became aware of these only recently - the cafe near my apartment has half a dozen of them on its bookshelves. But is the best possible subgenre? I think not. The first person who writes a teddy-bear-collecting-themed-murder-mystery-where-a-hardbitten-sexy-leather-trousered-lady-cop-has-graphic-sex-with-a-werewolf will ... http://felixgilman.com/wordpress/?p=280 Somehow I've ended up on the email list for Buckingham Books' Americana collection.  I don't know why. It means I get twice-weekly offers to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on things like:11. [NEBRASKA]. [RAILROAD]. HARVEY, A.C. [GEN'L LAND AGENT]. GO WEST! ON HARVEY'S EXCURSION TO NEBRASKA. 9" X 25" BROADSIDE. Boston: Rand, Avery & ... http://felixgilman.com/wordpress/?p=279 In one hundred years' time, when U.S. civilization has collapsed, and the entire south-east is a slick black reeking oil-coated wasteland, as hostile to organic life as the surface of Mercury, empty of everything except sometimes the preserved forms of long-decayed seabirds and palm trees and ghost malls, all of ... http://felixgilman.com/wordpress/?p=276 "Own your ambitions," Carrie says. Hers is good work and family. My 100% sincere life goal is never to have to do anything at all ever again except sit quietly in a cool darkish room eating cake, where the cake is provided either by the government or by a trust fund ... http://felixgilman.com/wordpress/?p=274