Rescue Party
…A Xuya story about a planet with a rather peculiar and creepy museum/archival system! Where to Buy Barnes and Noble Amazon US Amazon UK Buy now…
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…es and cars passing below. All his life he’d dreamt of flying, ever since the first time he’d seen a bird gliding through the air. From the airport, they took a cab to the royal palace on Lake Texcoco. Tenochtitlan, the single largest city in the world, sprawled around it for miles. The cab buzzed across one of the royal causeways, the water blue and shimmering in the hot sun. Inside the walled royal complex stood the Great Temple, meticulously ma…
Villa Diodati 4: the report
…on the following crits were done on a full stomach. They involved people becoming one with nature and giant mechanical quetzal birds, and the crits were good and thoughtful. By common agreement, the collaboration was abandonned, having diverged too far on all sides to still make sense and remain a short story. It was replaced by a roundtable of craft questions, followed by a discussion of best markets, involving much scribbling and ordering. Then…
Wow
It seems my alt-history novelette, “Butterfly, Falling at Dawn”, has placed 10th in Interzone’s annual Readers’ Poll. *happy writer* I’m pleased to see that several of my own favourites (“His Master’s Voice” by Hannu Rajaniemi, “Little Lost Robot” by Paul McAuley) have also made the Top Ten. (though I preferred “Rat Island” to “Greenland” in the Chris Beckett special issue). Many thanks to those who voted for me–either positively or negatively, c…
Xuya, or why alternate history
…er culture as she could. Hue Ma, who chose to abandon the Mexica ways to become a Xuyan magistrate, was the extreme of that position: rather than retain anything of her culture, she chose to be subsumed within the dominant culture. It was also an important component of “The Lost Xuyan Bride”, with both main characters choosing to become outsiders: Brooks in Xuyan culture, and another character ultimately emigrating and becoming part of a totally d…
Raisin bread recipe
…Not Wednesday but by then we’ll be on holiday in Brittany and with uncertain internet, so here’s my raisin bread recipe! Click here for the recipe….
HOUSE OF SHATTERED WINGS trade paperback out in the US today
…to Buy Hardback (US) Penguin Random House Amazon US Barnes and Noble US Indie Stores The Book Depository Trade Ppb (UK) Amazon UK Foyle’s Waterstones Blackwell’s WH Smith The Book Depository Ebook/Audio Amazon US (Kindle) Amazon UK (Kindle) Kobo Blackstone Audio (US audiobook) Orion Books (UK &RoW audiobook) Trade Ppb (US) Amazon US US indie stores The Book Depository Mass Market Ppb (UK) Amazon UK Foyle’s Waterstones Blackwell’s WH Smith The Boo…
On our way to Canada…
…booked our hotel and bought our memberships for Worldcon. Which leaves the plane tickets, and other hotels for the non-con part of the trip. After registering, I took a peek at the seemingly interminable list of current members–and suddenly remembered how bewilderingly huge Interaction had been in 2005. (no, I will not panic, but I did waffle about volunteering to be on the programme…)…
New recipe: candied orange peel!
…are dead easy to make and so so good! You can replace oranges with any citrus fruit (I kind of want to try lemon now). Recipe here. I’m not posting a picture of the orangettes (the chocolate-candied peels) because mine ended up looking a bit weird due to coating issues with the chocolate (they still taste great though, but they’re not very presentable!)….
Sunday Progress
…bout 150 years later… But it’s still fun, in a very Japanese way (brother-sister uncomfortably close relationship? check. Creepy magic that takes more out of you than it gives you? check). I do love the fact that religion is so omnipresent, though, and that D’Eon’s faith is so important (major pet peeve of mine: having religion thought of as weird, nonsensical, or as a science, in an era where Cartesian thought was either not developed or in its i…
