Tor’s New Website!

Tor Books has been perfecting their version of the mother-of-all-websites, and as an incentive to build audience, they’re offering free(!) desktop wallpapers from different artists each week. The wallpapers are available for one week only, and then they’re replaced by another set. Starting today, this week’s featured artists — me and Bob Eggleton! My wallpaper…

John Berkey — SF Hall of Famer?

Well, not yet anyway. Sad news this week, well-chronicled by now — one of sf’s finest artists ever, John Berkey, passed away on Tuesday. Irene Gallo, Arnie Fenner, Bob Eggleton and others have posted nice remembrances of Berkey. I’m definitely one of the legions who revere his work, which I believe is more influential now…

Clarkesworld Issue #20 / May ’08

Now available — Includes an interview with yours truly, conducted late January/early Feburary this year, courtesy of Jeff VanderMeer, AKA The Hardest Working Man in Genre. (Bizarre — how have I known Jeff this long, and only now did I notice that he capitalizes the “M” in his last name??) More good stuff in CLARKESWORLD…