Hugo Awards 2012

Not the winners--you can find out about them here--but how the ceremony turned into a real-life sf story.

Man on the Moon

Neil Armstrong, a true hero, a courageous man, and one who never went out of his way to exploit his fame, is gone.

UPDATE (September 4, 2012): What Neil Armstrong and the rest of the Apollo 11 astronauts did for life insurance.

Listen Up

The Blackstone Audio book of Earthseed has received very good reviews--here and here--both of which praise the skill of the voice actor, Amy Rubinate. I was very fortunate to get her to narrate Farseed and Seed Seeker as well, and her recording of Earthseed won an Earphones Award from AudioFile Magazine.

Earthseed on Facebook

My novel Earthseed now has its own page on Facebook, and Paramount has officially renewed its option on the book.

Save Your Eyes

Spent part of this past weekend compiling a guide to Mongol names and their phonetic pronunciations, as Audible.com is producing an audiobook of my historical novel about Genghis Khan, Ruler of the Sky. If you have a long commute and want something to listen to while you drive, Ruler, which ran over 700 pages in print, is the book for you. In the meantime, audio of all three volumes of my Venus trilogy is available from Audible and my three Seed trilogy novels have been out for a while as audiobooks from Blackstone Audio.