steve boyett | November 25, 2009
Those of you using those free antiseptic wipes from dispensers outside grocery stores so that you will not expose yourself to cooties when you get your carts, please cut it the hell out. All you are doing is confirming to the rest of the world that America is a paranoid, germophobic, xenophobic culture.
More important, you’re [...]
steve boyett | November 23, 2009
My two-week stint as a guest blogger on the Borders SF site Babel Clash begins today. The topic: Apocalypse in fiction & film. They definitely went to the right boy for this one (though I’m gonna lean more toward post-apocalypse, cuz how civilization goes into the crapper doesn’t interest me anywhere near as much as [...]
steve boyett | November 23, 2009
My interview with Bonnie Norman for her “Author of the Week” series on her A Working Title blog is now online.
steve boyett | November 21, 2009
Dear Stephen,
After well over thirty years of learning, growing, and fond affection, it pains me to say that I believe our relationship must end. We have grown apart, and must go our separate ways. I will always treasure the heyday of our youth, when the world stood in mute awe at the glaring olympian light [...]
steve boyett | November 15, 2009
Having fun on the second day of Podcamp! I got to meet Mignon Fogarty (aka Grammar Girl) in person for the first time (previously we’ve traded emails and nodded in passing at hectic conventions), and I found her an utter delight — charming, personable, and very comfortable in front of a crowd. Her presentation on [...]
steve boyett | November 13, 2009
Watching people gesture and pose as they talk on cell phones as if the person they’re speaking with can see them, it’s clear to me that areas of the visual cortex come into play when people use the phone. Put simplistically, you’ve got X amount of gray-matter RAM, and a certain portion of it is [...]
steve boyett | November 10, 2009
I watched the documentary Genghis Blues the other night for the first time in a long time, and it freaked me out a bit to realize that there was an entire chapter of my life that I have hardly shared with anybody, that has influenced me greatly, that I count as one of the happiest [...]
steve boyett | November 4, 2009
The signing at Mysterious Galaxy went quite nicely. Besides signing copies of Elegy Beach and Ariel (old and new), I blathered endlessly about the writing of the books and my approaches to writing in general, and answered some great questions (my friend Tom Morgan showed up and grilled me mercilessly — I can’t wait till [...]
steve boyett | November 3, 2009
I promised myself this blog was going to be an ongoing series of essays and conversations on a variety of topics — writing, science fiction & fantasy, authorship & intellectual property in the 21st Century, the remix as metaphor for the art of our age, occasional reports on events and the status of books & [...]
