Monday, May 01, 2006 - Vacation Geekery

Seeing as how it's summer vacation and all, I have a bit more time on my hands than usual. But, I ask, what's a science fiction writer to do when he doesn't feel like writing or catching up on his Nebula and Hugo reading lists? Clearly, he must geek out to video games.

I'm spending too much time playing Civ 3 (which I picked up off eBay for $9 a few months ago) and am rocking the world with the Egyptians. It's only the 1530s and, well, I have lots of guns (and a stock exchange - because, you know, we're not just about shooting lowly British spearmen).

Anyhow, I'm enjoying my vacation so far and, although I'm putting in a lot of hours at work right now, it's just nice not to have to worry about school.

Other news: Goodbye, Darwin continues to inch forward. I've had another big batch of stories come in lately, and some of them written by relatively accomplished authors. We're still only about halfway to our word count goal, though, so keep those submissions coming.

New blogs: A pair of new SF blogs are listed on my sidebar. The first is Notes From Coode Street, by Jonathan Strahan who works for Locus and edits a lot of Best Of anthologies. The second is VanderWorld, the blog of SF&F writer Jeff VanderMeer.


Cavan blogged at 2:52 PM | 1 comments


Progress

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Listening


A.J. Croce - "Maybe I'm Amazed"



My Music


Reading


Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney

My Library


Watching


Black Book: B


Sweet and Lowdown: C


Breakfast on Pluto: B


Wishlist


Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo


Rachael Yamagata - Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart