Arrived at the con in one piece and mostly sane.  I haven’t seen much of San Jose yet, but the city is so environmentally friendly that they have free buses from the train station.  Thankfully my package with Paper Cities and Sybil’s Garage successfully arrived, and Sean Wallace gratefully let me sell them at the Prime Books table. Some of my personal highlights so far: Discussing consciousness and Kurt Godel with Ted Chiang. Meeting Terry Bisson for the first time in person.  Terry is the co-founder of KGB along with Alice Turner.  He …

I’ve watched all five episodes of Stargate Universe so far.  The show has bad acting, bad characterizations, racist, sexist, & stereotypical characters, and bad writing.  So why the hell am I watching?  Because it has its moments.  Like the scene where they aerobrake against a blue gas giant.  The observation deck is one of the most beautiful science fictional renderings I have yet seen on TV.  And Eli, the bumbling MIT dropout, though I’ve seen a thousand characters like him before, is redeemed by his on-screen schtick and charm. The show …

Rose Fox and Josh Jasper have been hard at work on their website known as Genreville.com, a site under the Publishers Weekly banner about all things spec fic, told from two of the most well-read people in the field.  They’ve also been hard at work interviewing the KGB guests and posting the videos online for all to see.  They’ve uploaded two months of KGB guest interviews so far, and last night’s, I’m told, will be up on Monday.  Do yourselves a favor and check out this really cool blog.

Michael Cisco & John Langan at KGB tomorrow, October 21st.

John Joseph Adams, editor of several highly acclaimed anthologies and long-time assistant editor for F&SF announces he will be editing a new online magazine.  (And there was much rejoicing.) It’s called Lightspeed, and will be published online by Prime.  Andrea Kail will be editing the non-fiction portion.  Fantasy Magazine, Prime’s other online venue, has been doing wonderful things, so I’m looking forward to seeing what John and Andrea do with this.