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Blog postI am not an expert on Catherine the Great. I played her in Civ a couple of times, half-watched a thing on the history channel about her in the 2000s, and listened to a book about her during a really long car trip once.
This means I am glancingly familiar with her, maybe enough to rattle off the arc of her life off the top of my head.
Let’s see how accurate I get here!
Catherine (born Sophia) was a German girl who, for complex and ridiculous problems of lineage, was forced -
Blog postIt’s probably not a huge surprise to some of you that I’m a big cleantech booster. One such facet of cleantech that I suspect will soon be a big deal is electric cars.
I could talk for a long time about the impact of electric cars – their value, their effects, and how much of a solution they are for all the various problems we’re facing – but I won’t go into that now. What I’d mostly like to talk about now is what it’s like to make the jump.
And it does feel like a jump. An el -
Blog postThe defining moment of Detectorists, for me, is like most of the show’s scenes in that it is quiet, incidental, and not much seems to actually happen.
The two men, Lance and Andy, are walking over Essex farmland with their metal detectors. Lance gets a signal, digs a hole, drops to his knees to investigate, and retrieves something.
“What you got?” asks Andy.
“Carpet stair rod holder,” says Lance, holding it up.
“Yeah, I’ve had a couple of them,” says Andy. -
Blog postWhile changing out of wet clothes at the lake this past weekend, I glanced at my phone, saw a good bit of notifications, and realized, “Ah, the news has gone out.”
I am pleased to say that The Divine Cities is nominated for a Hugo Award in the Best Series Category.
Thank you to everyone who nominated the series. And thank you even more to those who simply read the books. I have written books that people have read, and I have written books that people have not read. I -
Blog postAlmost anyone who is even tangentially involved with writing has likely heard the phrase, “Murder your darlings.” This advice is oft-repeated for a reason: because it is true. You should be hyper-critical of your most beloved works precisely because you love them. Much like the parent who honestly believes their child can become a sports star, your love is a bias that can blind you to very real failings.
However, it’s not very often that we think of redirecting this figurati -
Blog postMarvel’s Black Panther is a huge accomplishment in many, many ways. It’s the first depiction of Afrofuturism I’ve seen produced on such a massive scale, and it’s the first African superhero I’ve certainly ever seen, not to mention one of the first superhero movies to feature an almost entirely black cast – with a significant number of female players, at that.
Even more audacious, Black Panther – a Marvel product that is owned by Disney – actually engages with the systematic historical -
Blog postI have been sitting on this one for quite a while, and am happy to finally be able to announce it – my next novel is FOUNDRYSIDE, first of THE FOUNDERS TRILOGY, which will be coming out August 23rd of this year!
In a city that runs on industrialized magic, a secret war will be fought to overwrite reality itself–the first in a dazzling new fantasy series from City of Stairs author Robert Jackson Bennett.
Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a hea -
Blog postThere are certain kind of stories where the goal is to create drama, but not so much that you’d have to change characters, locations, or even relationship dynamics. I’ve come to start thinking of these as “soap plots,” in that the goal is to complicate the characters’ lives while avoiding any overall story change. (The origin of the term, of course, comes from soap operas.)
This is different from a story that is about dramatic relationships – who slept with who, who had whose baby in -
Blog postIn case you were not aware, CITY OF MIRACLES came out this Tuesday.
It’s a very long time coming. My records show I wrote the first page of CITY OF STAIRS on April 30 of 2012.
When I did that, my son looked like this:
Now, almost five years to the day later, he looks like this:
It is very odd to have a project that tracks time in such a fashion. Children function like clocks, when it comes to time on a larger scale: by changing so rapidly, they let you know tha -
Blog postI have heard this comparison before, but it’s worth repeating here.
In a lot of ways, Obama is America’s Fabius Maximus.
Back in the old days, before Julius Caesar and whatnot, the Roman military was super, super macho. You just advanced on the enemy and pounded the shit out of them until they surrendered. And this worked pretty great for a pretty long time, because there were a lot of Romans, they were well trained, and they just kept coming.
But then Hannibal Barca
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