Boskone 47 — what can I say? As I said Saturday night to the NESFAns, Boskone is still the grande dame of regional sf/f literary-centric cons, and proved once again why it’s one of the measuring sticks (along with Armadillocon and a couple of others) by which similar cons are measured. It was an amazing…
Hot off the press — three new promo postcards featuring my cover art for (l to r) Dan Simmons’ DROOD (Subterranean Press ltd. ed.); Mark Chadbourn’s AGE OF MISRULE: BOOK ONE — WORLD’S END (Pyr); and Dan Simmons’ MUSE OF FIRE (Subterranean Press). These postcards will be freebies for all who attend my Guest of…
NESFA Press’ ROBOTS & MAGIC: SELECTED SHORT STORIES OF LESTER DEL REY, Vol. 2 will debut at Boskone next week, but it looks like it’s now available for purchase online. It’s got an intro by Terry Brooks and it’s edited by Steven H. Silver. Alice N.S. Lewis did the design. I’m looking forward to seeing…
Bad news, good news. First, the bad: I won’t be attending the World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne this summer. I wanted to be there. Traci and I bought attending memberships back in 2008, and it’s been her dream to visit Australia. In the end, we decided that we’ll be better prepared to afford the…
Here’s my final cover illustration for Lauren Beukes‘ forthcoming novel ZOO CITY. It’ll be an Angry Robot mass market paperback, coming this May. Lauren is the author of one of 2009’s breakout hits, MOXYLAND. She describes ZOO CITY as an urban fantasy — “a muti noir set in a re-imagined Johannesburg. It’s the story of…
First post of the New Year: here’s a one-stop visual list of my 2009 published works. As noted here and here, the awards nomination season is upon us again (Hugos and otherwise). If you wish to reference the list below for future consideration this year, please bookmark. FYI: in addition, my blog sidebar displays my…