Ian Tregillis is a novelist, scientist, screenwriter, man of leisure, and mammal. His alternative history trilogy, The Milkweed Triptych, is forthcoming from Tor books, starting in 2009. Enjoy your stay, but do mind the tentacles.
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Remarks Delivered at the 34th Annual Williamson Lectureship - 08/19/10 11:17 AM
Research Materials - 08/15/10 3:58 PM
Interview at Pat's Fantasy Hotlist - 08/12/10 10:6 AM
Thank You, Alice Ann, Wherever You Are - 08/11/10 10:49 PM
The End - 07/16/10 4:38 PM
The Joy of a Weight Lifted - 07/13/10 9:29 PM
New Story Appearing in AFTER HOURS: TALES FROM THE UR-BAR - 07/10/10 6:32 PM
Further Proof We Live in the Slow Zone - 07/07/10 10:53 PM
Toy Story 3 - 06/27/10 11:10 AM
Dear SEO Company Representatives - 06/23/10 9:9 PM
Book vs. Film: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - 06/19/10 12:32 AM
Nottingham - 06/16/10 9:54 AM
About That Sorrowful Chronicle - 06/14/10 7:11 PM
From the Department of Serendipitous Side Benefits - 06/11/10 5:3 AM
New Milkweed Story on Tor.com! - 06/08/10 9:26 AM
Click. Click. Click. - 06/05/10 6:21 PM
If You Enjoy Listening to Me Babble Like an Idiot... - 06/02/10 8:26 PM
Because I Haven't Posted About Cephalopods in a While - 05/23/10 9:39 PM
Bitter Seeds on Sword and Laser - 05/19/10 6:17 PM
As If I Needed Another Reason to Love Terry Pratchett - 05/15/10 8:48 PM
Audio Book Update - 05/13/10 6:33 AM
Homecoming (The Part with Photos) - 05/11/10 10:25 PM
Seen in the Wilds of Oslo - 05/08/10 3:43 AM
Where We Talk of Hats - 05/06/10 11:34 PM
Bitter Seeds Going Back for "Rush Reprint" - 05/05/10 3:9 PM
Audiobook News! - 05/03/10 9:21 PM
Homecoming (Part 1) - 04/26/10 11:23 PM
New Giveaways! - 04/20/10 10:15 AM
No Produce Thrown = Success - 04/19/10 11:43 AM
YetiStomper's April Picks - 04/16/10 5:46 PM
Hometown Reader Photo - 04/15/10 10:3 PM
Bitter Seeds on io9! And a Reader Photo, and a Strange Encounter. - 04/14/10 8:44 PM
LAUNCH DAY! Bitter Seeds in the Big, Wide World - 04/13/10 10:18 AM
The 34th Annual Jack Williamson Lectureship - 04/07/10 12:6 PM
Fantasy Book Critic Weighs In! - 04/05/10 10:50 AM
Bitter Seeds at SFRevu - 04/01/10 3:13 PM
Chronicle of Sorrows (2) - 03/27/10 6:43 PM
It's Real - 03/25/10 10:10 AM
Chronicle of Sorrows - 03/22/10 11:34 AM
Boskone - 02/16/10 8:15 PM
My Boskone Schedule - 02/08/10 9:24 PM
Where To Pre-Order Bitter Seeds - 02/07/10 3:50 PM
Sigh. Thanks For the Teamwork, Guys. - 01/30/10 11:52 AM
New Post at Tor.com: Almost Like We Planned It - 01/26/10 11:58 AM
Taos Toolbox - 01/08/10 11:4 PM
Is It A Royal Flush? - 12/23/09 10:7 AM
An Open Letter to the People on My Bus Who Like to Jabber Incessantly at 7 AM - 12/17/09 10:52 PM
Turn Down Your Lights (Part 2) - 12/04/09 9:53 PM
Overheard at a Halloween Party - 10/26/09 12:4 PM
Introducing the Portable Letterpress - 10/14/09 10:10 AM
Introducing the Aetheric Electro-Imager - 10/10/09 2:59 PM
Wide World of Sports, Here I Come - 09/19/09 10:41 AM
A Nine-Word Synopsis of '9' - 09/11/09 9:40 AM
You'll Never Be Late For Dinner - 09/09/09 11:0 PM
Spree Killers of the Deep - 09/06/09 12:44 PM
While You're At It, I'll Take One Of Those Diskos Things, Too - 09/03/09 9:0 AM
Bubonicon 41 - 08/26/09 9:50 PM
Breaking the Silence with Milkweed Updates - 08/24/09 3:47 PM
True Story - 05/02/09 10:36 PM
Endings Matter (Part 3 of 2) - 04/14/09 4:36 PM
The 33rd Annual Jack Williamson Lectureship - 04/09/09 10:13 AM
Management Services: Contact Problems - 04/08/09 10:39 AM
Endings Matter (Part 2 of 2) - 04/06/09 8:54 PM
Endings Matter (Part 1 of 2) - 04/03/09 11:42 PM
Don't Be Evil... Unless There's a Good Angle To It - 03/20/09 11:43 PM
Who's Crazy Now? - 03/16/09 9:38 PM
Watchmen, or, Philistine, Thy Name is Ian - 03/09/09 12:47 PM
Mass Signing Chaos in Albuquerque Tomorrow - 03/06/09 4:21 PM
Palimpsest - 03/05/09 2:56 AM
Next Time You're in Boston, Can You Swing Through Brooklyn And Pick Up Some Macaroons? - 02/24/09 4:28 AM
Publication Dates - 02/23/09 4:58 AM
Contestants, The Clock Will Begin When The Last Glacier Recedes. Ready? Go! - 02/11/09 4:20 AM
Download a FREE PDF of C. C. Finlay's New Novel, The Patriot Witch - 02/07/09 1:42 AM
Boskone 46, Lensmen 0 - 02/03/09 2:33 AM
Moving to Big Iron - 02/01/09 4:42 AM
The State of the World: Busted - 12/09/08 9:4 AM
Because He's Twice as Talented As the Rest - 10/17/08 8:5 AM
I Could Watch Bill Nighy Read the Phone Book - 10/14/08 8:21 PM
"Checkmate," Said our Clockwork Overlords - 10/09/08 6:21 PM
Just Because I Love Clocks Doesn't Mean I Update the Blog in a Timely Fashion - 10/01/08 7:51 AM
Having Cheated Death, I Now Await My Superpowers - 07/21/08 11:39 AM
Love, Freeze Rays, and Supervillainy - 07/15/08 5:10 PM
A Long Overdue Update, In List Form - 07/13/08 9:49 PM
Killer Robots and Their Telepathic Monkey Overlords - 05/28/08 2:50 PM
It's Not Supervillainy, But It's Getting There - 05/23/08 3:28 PM
Contact - 05/22/08 3:53 PM
Babylonian Steampunkery - 05/20/08 9:11 AM
A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale - 05/19/08 1:8 PM
Live from Rio Hondo, 2: No Bear Attacks (Yet) - 05/14/08 4:54 PM
Live from Rio Hondo - 05/13/08 2:16 PM
They Say They Were Laughing With Me - 05/10/08 2:0 PM
Occupational Hazards of the Writing Life - 05/08/08 9:1 AM
Done, With 4 Days to Spare - 05/01/08 2:36 PM
I'd Be Delighted With Three - 04/29/08 10:28 AM
The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics - 04/28/08 6:23 PM
Because Some Things Never Go Out of Style - 04/24/08 1:13 PM
An Alternative History of 1982-Today - 04/22/08 1:6 PM
Reasons Why Squirrels Are Smarter Than I Am (Part 2 of N) - 04/21/08 11:38 AM
Adobe Site of the Day! - 04/17/08 9:34 PM
Reasons Why Squirrels are Smarter Than I Am (Part 1 of N) - 04/10/08 2:52 PM
Hello, Deviantartists! - 04/06/08 11:26 AM
Crimes Against Grammar (Real, Perceived, and Premeditated) - 04/04/08 2:58 PM
United States of America v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins - 04/02/08 7:27 PM
Match It For Pratchett - 03/23/08 8:38 PM
Orbital Attack Electromagnets, part II - 03/13/08 9:32 PM
Why Stuff is Boring (A Case Study) - 03/11/08 8:52 PM
Because the Best Shows Explain the Premise in the Theme Song - 03/05/08 7:56 PM
Cosmology 101: The Sun is Held in Place by Six Eiffel Towers - 03/02/08 8:47 PM
Opulent, Glamorous, & Smelly - 02/23/08 9:23 PM
Free eBooks with a side of Orbital Attack Electromagnets - 02/11/08 6:35 PM
Axis Mundi - 02/10/08 12:22 PM
The Floating Arcology: Breeding Ground for Supervillainy - 02/07/08 9:46 PM
The Inside Straight Signing: Standing Room Only - 02/03/08 12:0 AM
On signings, and the importance of chocolate - 02/02/08 10:10 AM
2010
August
Bitter Seeds Audiobook & A Pop-Cultural Interview - 08/27/10 3:35 PMRemarks Delivered at the 34th Annual Williamson Lectureship - 08/19/10 11:17 AM
Research Materials - 08/15/10 3:58 PM
Interview at Pat's Fantasy Hotlist - 08/12/10 10:6 AM
Thank You, Alice Ann, Wherever You Are - 08/11/10 10:49 PM
July
The Perils of Fantasy Alternate History - 07/27/10 11:7 AMThe End - 07/16/10 4:38 PM
The Joy of a Weight Lifted - 07/13/10 9:29 PM
New Story Appearing in AFTER HOURS: TALES FROM THE UR-BAR - 07/10/10 6:32 PM
Further Proof We Live in the Slow Zone - 07/07/10 10:53 PM
June
Things for Which a Minnesota Childhood Did Not Prepare Me - 06/30/10 8:43 PMToy Story 3 - 06/27/10 11:10 AM
Dear SEO Company Representatives - 06/23/10 9:9 PM
Book vs. Film: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - 06/19/10 12:32 AM
Nottingham - 06/16/10 9:54 AM
About That Sorrowful Chronicle - 06/14/10 7:11 PM
From the Department of Serendipitous Side Benefits - 06/11/10 5:3 AM
New Milkweed Story on Tor.com! - 06/08/10 9:26 AM
Click. Click. Click. - 06/05/10 6:21 PM
If You Enjoy Listening to Me Babble Like an Idiot... - 06/02/10 8:26 PM
May
Just 364 Shopping Days Left Until Next Towel Day - 05/26/10 5:35 PMBecause I Haven't Posted About Cephalopods in a While - 05/23/10 9:39 PM
Bitter Seeds on Sword and Laser - 05/19/10 6:17 PM
As If I Needed Another Reason to Love Terry Pratchett - 05/15/10 8:48 PM
Audio Book Update - 05/13/10 6:33 AM
Homecoming (The Part with Photos) - 05/11/10 10:25 PM
Seen in the Wilds of Oslo - 05/08/10 3:43 AM
Where We Talk of Hats - 05/06/10 11:34 PM
Bitter Seeds Going Back for "Rush Reprint" - 05/05/10 3:9 PM
Audiobook News! - 05/03/10 9:21 PM
April
Homecoming (Part 2) - 04/28/10 10:25 PMHomecoming (Part 1) - 04/26/10 11:23 PM
New Giveaways! - 04/20/10 10:15 AM
No Produce Thrown = Success - 04/19/10 11:43 AM
YetiStomper's April Picks - 04/16/10 5:46 PM
Hometown Reader Photo - 04/15/10 10:3 PM
Bitter Seeds on io9! And a Reader Photo, and a Strange Encounter. - 04/14/10 8:44 PM
LAUNCH DAY! Bitter Seeds in the Big, Wide World - 04/13/10 10:18 AM
The 34th Annual Jack Williamson Lectureship - 04/07/10 12:6 PM
Fantasy Book Critic Weighs In! - 04/05/10 10:50 AM
Bitter Seeds at SFRevu - 04/01/10 3:13 PM
March
Chronicle of Sorrows (3) - 03/29/10 3:23 PMChronicle of Sorrows (2) - 03/27/10 6:43 PM
It's Real - 03/25/10 10:10 AM
Chronicle of Sorrows - 03/22/10 11:34 AM
February
Keep an Eye on That Tregillis Fellow (Before He Steals Your Silverware) - 02/27/10 5:16 PMBoskone - 02/16/10 8:15 PM
My Boskone Schedule - 02/08/10 9:24 PM
Where To Pre-Order Bitter Seeds - 02/07/10 3:50 PM
January
Another New Post at Tor.com: So We Have This Plot Hiccup... - 01/30/10 10:3 PMSigh. Thanks For the Teamwork, Guys. - 01/30/10 11:52 AM
New Post at Tor.com: Almost Like We Planned It - 01/26/10 11:58 AM
Taos Toolbox - 01/08/10 11:4 PM
2009
December
Wide World of Sports (reprise) - 12/27/09 5:15 PMIs It A Royal Flush? - 12/23/09 10:7 AM
An Open Letter to the People on My Bus Who Like to Jabber Incessantly at 7 AM - 12/17/09 10:52 PM
Turn Down Your Lights (Part 2) - 12/04/09 9:53 PM
October
Turn Down Your Lights (Where Applicable) - 10/30/09 8:40 PMOverheard at a Halloween Party - 10/26/09 12:4 PM
Introducing the Portable Letterpress - 10/14/09 10:10 AM
Introducing the Aetheric Electro-Imager - 10/10/09 2:59 PM
September
Newsletter - 09/23/09 10:3 AMWide World of Sports, Here I Come - 09/19/09 10:41 AM
A Nine-Word Synopsis of '9' - 09/11/09 9:40 AM
You'll Never Be Late For Dinner - 09/09/09 11:0 PM
Spree Killers of the Deep - 09/06/09 12:44 PM
While You're At It, I'll Take One Of Those Diskos Things, Too - 09/03/09 9:0 AM
August
The Battle of Britain in Stained Glass - 08/31/09 12:22 PMBubonicon 41 - 08/26/09 9:50 PM
Breaking the Silence with Milkweed Updates - 08/24/09 3:47 PM
June
There's A Trick To It: Don't Get Bitten - 06/13/09 1:32 PMMay
Losing the Senescence Lottery - 05/12/09 10:26 PMTrue Story - 05/02/09 10:36 PM
April
Two Awesome Books Available Today - 04/28/09 6:7 PMEndings Matter (Part 3 of 2) - 04/14/09 4:36 PM
The 33rd Annual Jack Williamson Lectureship - 04/09/09 10:13 AM
Management Services: Contact Problems - 04/08/09 10:39 AM
Endings Matter (Part 2 of 2) - 04/06/09 8:54 PM
Endings Matter (Part 1 of 2) - 04/03/09 11:42 PM
March
Suicide Kings, Minus Christopher Walken - 03/29/09 5:11 PMDon't Be Evil... Unless There's a Good Angle To It - 03/20/09 11:43 PM
Who's Crazy Now? - 03/16/09 9:38 PM
Watchmen, or, Philistine, Thy Name is Ian - 03/09/09 12:47 PM
Mass Signing Chaos in Albuquerque Tomorrow - 03/06/09 4:21 PM
Palimpsest - 03/05/09 2:56 AM
February
Hey, Who Replaced My Favorite Adventure Yarn With This Zoology Textbook? - 02/26/09 10:17 PMNext Time You're in Boston, Can You Swing Through Brooklyn And Pick Up Some Macaroons? - 02/24/09 4:28 AM
Publication Dates - 02/23/09 4:58 AM
Contestants, The Clock Will Begin When The Last Glacier Recedes. Ready? Go! - 02/11/09 4:20 AM
Download a FREE PDF of C. C. Finlay's New Novel, The Patriot Witch - 02/07/09 1:42 AM
Boskone 46, Lensmen 0 - 02/03/09 2:33 AM
Moving to Big Iron - 02/01/09 4:42 AM
2008
December
5 Songs You Never Hear While on Hold - 12/11/08 8:44 PMThe State of the World: Busted - 12/09/08 9:4 AM
October
"Boo," Said the Lunatic in Boston - 10/31/08 8:29 AMBecause He's Twice as Talented As the Rest - 10/17/08 8:5 AM
I Could Watch Bill Nighy Read the Phone Book - 10/14/08 8:21 PM
"Checkmate," Said our Clockwork Overlords - 10/09/08 6:21 PM
Just Because I Love Clocks Doesn't Mean I Update the Blog in a Timely Fashion - 10/01/08 7:51 AM
August
Schedules - 08/04/08 10:46 AMJuly
Slivers of Ticks, and Tatters of Tocks - 07/23/08 1:44 PMHaving Cheated Death, I Now Await My Superpowers - 07/21/08 11:39 AM
Love, Freeze Rays, and Supervillainy - 07/15/08 5:10 PM
A Long Overdue Update, In List Form - 07/13/08 9:49 PM
May
Could This Be The End For Mr. Calliope? - 05/30/08 9:24 AMKiller Robots and Their Telepathic Monkey Overlords - 05/28/08 2:50 PM
It's Not Supervillainy, But It's Getting There - 05/23/08 3:28 PM
Contact - 05/22/08 3:53 PM
Babylonian Steampunkery - 05/20/08 9:11 AM
A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale - 05/19/08 1:8 PM
Live from Rio Hondo, 2: No Bear Attacks (Yet) - 05/14/08 4:54 PM
Live from Rio Hondo - 05/13/08 2:16 PM
They Say They Were Laughing With Me - 05/10/08 2:0 PM
Occupational Hazards of the Writing Life - 05/08/08 9:1 AM
Done, With 4 Days to Spare - 05/01/08 2:36 PM
April
Conveyances for a More Civilized Time - 04/30/08 8:50 AMI'd Be Delighted With Three - 04/29/08 10:28 AM
The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics - 04/28/08 6:23 PM
Because Some Things Never Go Out of Style - 04/24/08 1:13 PM
An Alternative History of 1982-Today - 04/22/08 1:6 PM
Reasons Why Squirrels Are Smarter Than I Am (Part 2 of N) - 04/21/08 11:38 AM
Adobe Site of the Day! - 04/17/08 9:34 PM
Reasons Why Squirrels are Smarter Than I Am (Part 1 of N) - 04/10/08 2:52 PM
Hello, Deviantartists! - 04/06/08 11:26 AM
Crimes Against Grammar (Real, Perceived, and Premeditated) - 04/04/08 2:58 PM
United States of America v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins - 04/02/08 7:27 PM
March
Match it For Pratchett, redux: Watch This Space! - 03/25/08 10:7 AMMatch It For Pratchett - 03/23/08 8:38 PM
Orbital Attack Electromagnets, part II - 03/13/08 9:32 PM
Why Stuff is Boring (A Case Study) - 03/11/08 8:52 PM
Because the Best Shows Explain the Premise in the Theme Song - 03/05/08 7:56 PM
Cosmology 101: The Sun is Held in Place by Six Eiffel Towers - 03/02/08 8:47 PM
February
Look Out in the Black-Out! - 02/28/08 10:6 PMOpulent, Glamorous, & Smelly - 02/23/08 9:23 PM
Free eBooks with a side of Orbital Attack Electromagnets - 02/11/08 6:35 PM
Axis Mundi - 02/10/08 12:22 PM
The Floating Arcology: Breeding Ground for Supervillainy - 02/07/08 9:46 PM
The Inside Straight Signing: Standing Room Only - 02/03/08 12:0 AM
On signings, and the importance of chocolate - 02/02/08 10:10 AM
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Monday, October 26 2009, 12:04 PM
"So there I was..."

"...backing down the stairs, fending off this irate Algerian dwarf."
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Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis
April 13, 2010
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Purchase the book"A major talent... I can't wait to see more."
—George R. R. Martin
"Mad English warlocks battling twisted Nazi psychics? Yes
please, thank you. Tregillis's debut has a white-knuckle
plot, beautiful descriptions, and complex characters-- an
unstoppable Vickers of a novel."
—Cory Doctorow
"Tregillis delivers a dynamite first novel in Bitter Seeds."
—SFRevu.com
"...'Bitter Seeds' is hands down the best debut of 2010 so far."
—Fantasy Book Critic
"[Bitter Seeds] receives my highest recommendations and will likely be
very close to the top of my best of 2010 list."
—sffworld.com
"As things stand, in this house at least, [Bitter Seeds is] the
speculative fiction debut of the year."
"[Tregillis] has created a unique, unsettling, and deeply
atmospheric setting; populated it with a diversity of grimly
fascinating characters; and turned up the heat with the sort of
plot that requires those characters to keep shoveling frantically
if they are ever to stay in advance of the needs of the firebox."
—Elizabeth Bear
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Interview with Mad Hatter Book Review
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Monday, October 26 2009, 12:04 PM
"So there I was..."

Interview with Pat's Fantasy Hotlist
An interview with the authors of Busted Flush at Pat's Fantasy Hotlist
Interview with Travis Heermann at The Write Line
9-way interview with the contributors to the Wild Cards novel Inside Straight at Pat's Fantasy Hotlist
Interview in the February, 2008 newsletter of the Online Writing Workshop for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
An extended interview with Ian Tregillis by Ty Franck, on www.wildcardsbooks.com.
August 27-29, 2010
Albuquerque, NM, USA
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