The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina

The Storm is a suspenseful, detailed account of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, written by Ivor van Heerden, Deputy Director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, and co-author Mike Bryan. Recommended for its insights into the often contentious interactions of scientists and politicians, and for the abundance of evidence it offers to show that the loss of New Orleans, far from being the outcome of a natural disaster, was the result of human negligence. If you need an excuse to get a copy, it's now out in paperback.

On the eve of the Fourth of July...

...Keith Olbermann should not have had to say this.

SF and Fantasy Writers' Blogs

Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing has performed the great service of providing a link to a list of blogs by fantasy and science fiction writers. You can find it here.

"Our Biotech Future"

Freeman Dyson has a fascinating and provocative piece on biotechnology here, at the New York Review of Books site.

A Story at Wet Asphalt

My short story "After I Stopped Screaming," which appeared in the October/November 2006 double issue of Asimov's Science Fiction, is now up at the literary Web site Wet Asphalt. You can read it here.