Clik here to view.
Little Brother: a virtual “escape room” created by an 11th grade class in...
Ulrich Oberender and his 11th grade students in a German high school created this “Edu-Breakout” based on my novel Little Brother: it’s a series of puzzles and challenges based on the book that engage...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pluralist: 19 Feb 2020
Contents The Woman Who Loved Giraffes: a documentary about Anne Innis Dagg, the magnificent feminist biologist and critic of pseudoscience like evolutionary psychology. Machine learning doesn’t fix...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pluralist, a daily link-dose: 20 Feb 2020
Today’s links The 2020 Nebula Award Finalists: a bumper crop of outstanding SF Uber driver/sharecroppers drive like maniacs to make quota: subprime lending + gig economy = stay off the roads Barclay’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pluralist, a daily link-dose: 21 Feb 2020
Today’s links Bloomberg’s campaign NDA is a gag order that covers sexual abuse and other crimes: Bloomberg’s lowest moment at the debate came when he fumfuhed over whether he’d release women from his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pluralist, your daily link-dose: 22 Feb 2020
Today’s links Tax Justice Network publishes a new global Financial Secrecy Index: US and UK, neck-and-neck What Marc Davis lifted from the Addams Family while designing the Haunted Mansion: Amateurs...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pluralist, your daily link-dose: 24 Feb 2020
Today’s links How “Authoritarian Blindness” kept Xi from dealing with coronavirus: Zeynep Tufekci in outstanding form. The Snowden Archive: every publicly available Snowden doc, collected and...
View Article88 Names podcast (fixed) (for real)
The brilliant writer Matt Ruff just published a new heist novel about gold-farming and MMORPGs called 88 NAMES that’s like Snow Crash meets The King and I:...
View ArticleArticle 0
I’ve got a old-fashioned link-blog, Pluralistic, where I post a daily list of links with commentary and analysis. If you’d prefer to get it as a newsletter, you can subcribe to the Plura-list. Both are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rave for “Poesy the Monster Slayer”
No matter how many books I write (20+ now!), the first review for a new one is always scary. That goes double when the book is a first as well – like Poesy the Monster Slayer, my first-ever picture...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My first-ever Kickstarter: the audiobook for Attack Surface, the third Little...
I have a favor to ask of you. I don’t often ask readers for stuff, but this is maybe the most important ask of my career. It’s a Kickstarter – I know, ‘another crowdfunder?’ – but it’s: a) Really...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Poesy the Monster Slayer
POESY THE MONSTER SLAYER is my first-ever picture book, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller and published by Firstsecond. It’s an epic tale of toy-hacking, bedtime-avoidance and monster-slaying....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Announcing the Attack Surface tour
It’s been 12 years since I went on my first book tour and in the years since, I’ve met and spoken with tens of thousands of readers in hundreds of cities on five continents in support of more than a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Danish Little Brother, now a free, CC-licensed download
Science Fiction Cirklen is a member-funded co-op of Danish science fiction fans; they raise money to produce print translations of sf novels that Danes would otherwise have to read in English. They...
View ArticleTalking writing with the Writing Excuses crew
A million years ago, I set sail on the Writing Excuses Cruise, a writing workshop at sea. As part of that workshop, I sat down with the Writing Excuses podcast team (Mary Robinette Kowal, Piper J...
View ArticleStop Techno Dystopia with SRSLY WRONG
SRSLY WRONG is a leftist/futuristic podcast incorporating sketches in long-form episodes; I became aware of them last year when Michael Pulsford recommended their series on “library socialism”, an idea...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 19)
Here’s part nineteen of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 20)
Here’s part twenty of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the...
View ArticleThe Attack Surface Lectures: Politics and Protest (fixed)
The Attack Surface Lectures were a series of eight panel discussions on the themes in my’s novel Attack Surface, each hosted by a different bookstore and each accompanied by a different pair of guest...
View ArticleAttack Surface Lectures master post
The Attack Surface Lectures were a series of eight panel discussions on the themes in my novel Attack Surface, each hosted by a different bookstore and each accompanied by a different pair of guest...
View ArticleThe Attack Surface Lectures: Intersectionality: Race, Surveillance, and Tech...
The Attack Surface Lectures were a series of eight panel discussions on the themes in my’s novel Attack Surface, each hosted by a different bookstore and each accompanied by a different pair of guest...
View Article