Fill Your Boots: my column on how technology could let us work like artisans...
My latest Locus column is “Fill Your Boots,” in which I talk about how scientists, sf writers, economists and environmental activists have wrestled with the question of abundance — how the “green...
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Preorder my novel Walkaway and get a pocket multitool
Tor has produced a multitool to commemorate my forthcoming novel Walkaway, and if you pre-order the book, they’ll send you one! Protip: pre-order from Barnes and Noble and you’ll get a signed copy!...
View ArticleFair trade ebooks: how authors could double their royalties without costing...
My latest Publishers Weekly column announces the launch-date for my long-planned “Shut Up and Take My Money” ebook platform, which allows traditionally published authors to serve as retailers for...
View ArticleHere’s the schedule for my 25-city US-Canada Walkaway tour!
There’s 25 stops in all on the US/Canada tour for WALKAWAY, my next novel, an “optimistic disaster novel” that comes out on April 25 (more stops coming soon, as well as publication of my UK tour)....
View ArticleRead: “Communist Party”: the first chapter of Walkaway
There’s still time to pre-order your signed first-edition hardcover of Walkaway, my novel which comes out on April 25 (US/UK), and while you’re waiting for that to ship, here’s chapter one of the...
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Read: Chapter 3 of Walkaway, in which a university rises from the ashes
There’s only 8 days until the publication of Walkaway (stil time to pre-order signed hardcovers: US, UK), and Tor.com has just published a sneak peek at chapter 3: “Takeoff.” I’m getting ready to hit...
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Walkaway Q&A: great debut novels, collections, and favorites
With less than a week to go until the debut of Walkaway, my next novel for adults, Portland’s Powell’s Bookstore has run a long Q&A with me about the book, my writing habits, my favorite reads,...
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The Haunted Mansion Ghost Post wins a Themed Entertainment Award!
When I wrote about the Haunted Mansion loot crates (“Ghost Post”) last March, what I couldn’t say was that I was the writer on the project, penning the radio scripts, newspapers, letters, and...
View ArticleA hyperlinked bibliography for Homeland
Jonathan Voß did me the kindness of adding hyperlinks to the afterword/bibliography for my 2013 novel Homeland. Thank you Jonathan! When I was a kid, facts were hard to come by. If you wanted to know...
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A Crooked Timber seminar on Walkaway
My latest novel, Walkaway, was published today, and the Crooked Timber block has honored me with a seminar on the book, where luminaries from Henry Farrell to Julia Powles to John Holbo to Astra...
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Come to the Chicago Walkaway event with Max Temkin, get a multitool!
My publicist just found an extra box of the cool promotional Walkaway multitools, and she’s generously offered to give them to the next 100 people to reserve tickets to the May 7th Walkaway event at...
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Talking Walkaway on the Author Stories podcast
My novel Walkaway came out today and I sat down yesterday with the Author Stories Podcast to talk about writing, publishing, and, of course, the novel.
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Announcing the official UK Walkaway Tour!
My UK publisher, Head of Zeus, has published the official tour schedule for the British tour for Walkaway, with stops in Oxford (with Tim Harford), London (with Laurie Penny), Liverpool (with Chris...
View ArticleExtreme wealth inequality will always devour the societies that produce it
My new novel Walkaway (US tour/UK tour) is set in a world that is being torn apart by out-of-control wealth inequality, but not everyone thinks that inequality is what destabilizes the world — there’s...
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Announcing the Walkaway audiobook, with Wil Wheaton, Amber Benson, Amanda...
Here’s Wil Wheaton reading “Communist Party,” the opening chapter of “Walkaway,” my first novel for adults since 2009’s “Makers.” Wil is joined on the independently produced audiobook by Amber Benson...
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See you tomorrow in DC (then NYC, Richmond, Chapel Hill, etc!)
My US/Canadian tour for my novel Walkaway continues tomorrow with a 7PM event at Politics & Prose; I’m in NYC the next night (with Edward Snowden) and it’s sold out but you might be able to get...
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Watch the livestream for tomorrow’s NYPL discussion of Walkaway with Edward...
I’m on the US tour for my new novel Walkaway (I’ll be at DC’s Politics and Prose tonight), and tomorrow, I’m doing a sold-out appearance with Edward Snowden onstage at the New York Public Library;...
View ArticleWalkaway tour! Richmond, Chapel Hill, Cincinnati, Chicago and more!
I’m in New York City today for the Walkaway tour and the event — an onstage conversation with Edward Snowden — is sold out (you can watch the livestream free, starting 7PM eastern), but there’s still...
View ArticleChicagoans! Where to find me and Max Temkin on the Walkaway tour!
On Sunday, I’ll be appearing at Chicago’s Volumes Books with Max “Cards Against Humanity” Temkin, as part of the Walkaway tour (which includes stops tonight in Chapel Hill at Flyleaf Books with Mur...
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