Author: eidolon

My friend E. E. Giorgi — writer, mathematician, photographer, geneticist — has started a new series of blog posts about genetics and “junk” DNA.  I’m looking forward to reading the entire series, because genetics if fascinating to me, but my knowledge of it is still stuck in 10th grade.  (There wasn’t much room for biochemistry in my schoolin’.  More’s the pity.)

Renovation, also known as the 69th World Science Fiction Convention, also known as WorldCon, will take place in (where else?) Reno, Nevada from August 17 to August 21 this year. 

The programming folks gave me a fantastic schedule this year; I posted it below the cut, along with the relevant blurbs from the program book.

Thanks to the extreme courtesy and consideration of some local taggers, I had the opportunity to play Tom Sawyer this afternoon. 

(That’s Tom Sawyer as in the book.  Not as in the Rush song.)

At least I didn’t have to repaint an entire fence.

In the not-too-distant past, a mythological creature quizzed me, and several other writers, on our aspirations for visiting another planet.

Jenn Brozek, our fearless leader on the Human for a Day anthology, has posted cover art for the upcoming anthology, as well as the table of contents.  Hooray!  And check out that cover– is that great or what?

Jenn co-edited the anthology with the late, great Martin Greenberg, the legendary anthologist who passed away just recently.